Biology:Hensodon
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
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| Artist's impression of a male (top) and female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pycnodontiformes |
| Family: | †Coccodontidae |
| Genus: | †Hensodon Kriwet, 2004 |
| Species: | †H. spinosus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Hensodon spinosus Kriwet, 2004
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Hensodon spinosus is an extinct pycnodontid that lived during the Upper Cenomanian of what is now Lebanon.[1] H. spinosus superficially resembled a marine angelfish with a massive head, and a very spiny pectoral girdle. Different specimens have different arrangements of the horn-like frontal spines. One form has the horns arranged as a double-prong, assumed to be the male, and the other form, assumed to be the female, having the horns one after the other, like those of a rhinoceros.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2008-04-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20080430004102/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ↑ CAPASSO, Luigi Lorenzo; Louis TAVERNE; Roy NOHRA (20 October 2010). "A re-description of Hensodon spinosus, a remarkable coccodontid fish(Actinopterygii, †Pycnodontiformes) from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)of Haqel, Lebanon". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 80: 145–162. http://www.naturalsciences.be/pdf/bulletin/earth_sciences/2010/Capasso%20et%20al,%20kleur%20Bulletin%2080.pdf.[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
Wikidata ☰ Q5731396 entry
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