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  • Acrognathus dodgei Hay, 1903


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    Taxonomy

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
    Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
    Order: Myctophiformes Regan 1911
    Family: Sardinioididae
    Genus: Acrognathus
    Species: Acrognathus dodgei
    Author Citation Hay, 1903

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Mesozoic
    Period: Cretaceous
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Late
    International Age: Cenomanian

    Stratigraphy

    Sannine Formation

    Provenance

    Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

    Dimensions

    Length: 8 cm

    Location

    Haqel
    Jbeil District
    Mount Lebanon Governorate
    Lebanon

    Comments

    References:

    A. S. Woodward. (1901) Catalogue of Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV 1-636.
    HAY, O.P. (1903) On a collection of upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon, Syria, with descriptions of four new genera and nineteen new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 19 (10): 395–452.
    Peter L.  Forey, Lu Yi, Colin Patterson & Cliff E.  Davies (2003) Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 1(04):227 - 330. DOI: 10.1017/S147720190300107X

     

     




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    Thomas,

     

    I think that this might be a different species of Acrognathus. A. libanicus is described from Sahel Alma, the Santonian site in Lebanon. The specimens from Haqel and Hadjula were named A. dodgei, Hay, 1903. This diagnosis is reinforced in Forey, et. al., 2003 in their paper about Namoura.

     

    Bob

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    Ahh, thank you. I am not very familiar with the fish from Lebanon and I didn't know Forey's work. Unfortunately I cannot find a free copy on the net.

    Thanks again

    Thomas

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    If you will be in Tucson, I can give you a pdf copy of the Forey paper there... so next week I guess.

     

    Bob

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    Pity, I'm living in Shanghai at the moment. No chance of getting to Tucson.

    According to Woodward 1902 it is Scopelidae. I changed the taxonomy to Sardinioididae and Myctophiformes  - is that ok?

    Thomas

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