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Bulldog Fish
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Tithonian
Weissjura Group
Solnhofen Formation
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Length: 12 cm
Birkhof
District Eichstätt
Bavaria
Germany
Juvenile Allothrissops salmoneus. In the lithographic limestone of Germany, there are two Allothrissops species: A. salmoneus from the Solnhofen lithgraphic limestones in Bavaria and A. mesogaster from the slightly older deposits in Nusplingen, Baden-Württemberg. The small dorsal fin is located behind the anal fin.
Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.
References:
Blainville, H. de (1818) Sur les ichthyolites ou les poissons fossiles. Nouveau Dictionnaire d’Histoire Naturelle, 27, 310–395.
Nybelin, O. (1964) Versuch einer taxonomischen Revision des Jurassischen Fischgattung Thrissops AGASSIZ. Goteborgs ¨ Kungl. Vetenskaps och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar ¨ , 4, 1–44.
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