Ichthyotringa cf. furcata (Agassiz 1835)

Taxonomy

Lizardfish

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
Order: Aulopiformes
Family: Ichthyotringidae
Genus: Ichthyotringa
Species: Ichthyotringa cf. furcata
Author Citation (Agassiz 1835)

Geological Time Scale

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

Stratigraphy

unknown formation

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Dimensions

Length: 13.5 cm

Location

Ain el Kerma (town)
Jebel Tselfat (ridge)
Fès-Meknès (region)
Morocco

• cenomanian
• cretaceous
• ichthyotringa
• jbel tselfat
• jebel tselfat
• morocco
• rhinellus
• tff-oilshale-ch2290

Comments

The transcription of the Arab terms and names is often ambiguous. In the literature, the locality is called both Ain el Kerma and Ain Karma. Different spellings can also be found for Jebel Tselfat and Jbel Tselfat.

Taxonomy from Encyclopedia of Life, EOL for short.
Diagnosis according to Pictet and Humbert 1866, (translated from French by oilshale): "Elongated head, ending in a long beak similar to that of Belone. Small skeleton, composed of numerous vertebrae. Short dorsal fin, a little behind the middle of the body and slightly behind the ventrals; pectoral fins that are rather large; short anal fin that is close to the tail; tail divided into two lobes. Very poorly preserved scales."

Rhinellus Agassiz, 1834 is regarded as preoccupied by Rhinella Fitzinger, 1826 and replaced by Ichthyotringa.
Line drawing:

Originally identified by Dr. N. Micklich (Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - HLMD) as Rhinellus cf. furcatus (now Ichthyotringa furcata).

References:

Agassiz, L (1835). Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome IV (livr. 4). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel,  pp. 33-52.
Pictet, F.-J. and Humbert, Alois (1866). Nouvelles recherches sur les poissons fossiles du mont Liban. GENÈVE CHEZ GEORG, RUE DE LA GORRATERIE PARIS J,-B. BAILLIÈRE ET FILS.— F. SAVY.
Woodward, A. S. (1901), Catalogue of Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV, 1-636.
Arambourg, C. (1954). Les poissons crétacés du Jebel Tselfat (Maroc)-Notes Mém. Serv. Géol. Maroc 118: 1–188.
Taverne, L. (2006). Révision d’Ichthyotringa africana, poisson marin (Teleostei, Aulopiformes) du Crétacé supérieur de la Mésogée eurafricaine. Considérations sur les relations phylogénétiques du genre Ichthyotringa. Belg J Zool. 136(1):31–41.
Khalloufia, B., Ouarhache, D., and Lelièvre, H., (2010). New paleontological and geological data about Jbel Tselfat (Late Cretaceous of Morocco) Historical Biology Vol. 22, Nos. 1–3, March–June–September 2010, 57–70.
SILVA, Hilda and GALLO, VALÉRIA (2011). Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83(2): 483-511.