Pleuropholis laevissima AGASSIZ, 1834

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
Order: Pholidophoriformes Berg 1940
Family: Pholidophoridae Woodward 1890
Genus: Pleuropholis
Species: Pleuropholis laevissima
Author Citation AGASSIZ, 1834

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Tithonian

Stratigraphy

Weissjura Group
Painten Formation

Biostratigraphy

Hybonoticeras beckeri Zone
Lithacoceras ulmense Subzone

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Dimensions

Length: 6 cm

Location

Rygol Quarry
Painten (city)
Bavaria
Germany

• painten
• pleuropholis
• tff-oilshale-ch1886
• tithonian

Comments

Unspectacular and old fashioned looking fish, but quite rare.

Reconstruction from Solnhofen-Fossilienatlas.de fossilid=363:

 

References:

Johnston, M. (1909). III.—On a New Specimen of the Jurassic Ganoid Fish, Pleuropholis lævissima, Egerton. Geological Magazine, 6(7), 309-311. doi:10.1017/S001675680012309X.

O. W. M. Rauhut, A. López-Arbarello, M. Röper and M. Rothgaenger (2017) Vertebrate fossils from the Kimmeridgian of Brunn: the oldest fauna from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Late Jurassic, Bavaria, Germany). Zitteliana 89:305-329 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/M. Uhen].