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  • Palaeogadus simionescui Daniltshenko 1950


    Images:

    oilshale

    Taxonomy

    Cod

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
    Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
    Order: Gadiformes Goodrich 1909
    Family: Merlucciidae T. N. Gill, 1884
    Genus: Palaeogadus
    Species: Palaeogadus simionescui
    Author Citation Daniltshenko 1950

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Cenozoic
    Period: Paleogene
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Oligocene
    International Age: Rupelian

    Stratigraphy

    Menilite-Krosno Group
    Menilite formation

    Provenance

    Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

    Dimensions

    Length: 10 cm

    Location

    Jamna Dolna
    Bieszczady County
    Subcarpathian Voivodeship
    Poland

    Comments

    Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.

    Diagnosis from Jerzmanska 1968, p. 417: "41-43 vertebrae. The second dorsal ray begins 1-2' vertebrae behind the end of the first. The first ray of the anal under the first rays of the second dorsal. The second dorsal and anal are three vertebrae apart from the anal."

    References:

    A. Jerzmanska (1968) Ichtyofaune des couches a ménilite (flysch des Karpathes). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 13(3):379-488




    User Feedback


     

      When I first looked at this fish in that little picture I thought for sure it had painting problems, then I enlarged it.  Nice fish fella!

     

    RB

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