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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
Order: Ellimmichthyiformes Grande, 1982
Family: Sorbinichthyidae Bannikov and Bacchia, 2000
Genus: Sorbinichthys
Species: Sorbinichthys africanus
Author Citation Murray & Wilson, 2011
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Cretaceous
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Cenomanian / Turonian
"Continental intercalaire" Group
Akrabou Formation
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Length: 7 cm
Gara es Sbâa
Tafraoute
Tiznit Province
Morocco
Taxonomy from Murray & Wilson 2011.
Diagnosis from Murray & Wilson 2011, p. 4: "Differs from the type species by having fewer pairs of pleural ribs (12–13 compared with 15–16 in S. elusivo); articulation of jaw more posteriorly placed (below midpoint of orbit rather than below anterior part of orbit in S. elusivo); lower jaw correspondingly more elongate than in S. elusivo (mandible about 70% of head length compared with 57%–64% in S. elusivo); second dorsal ray elongated compared with that in related genera, but much less so than in S. elusivo (less than 50% of standard length (SL) compared with about 83% of SL in S. elusivo)."
Line drawing from Murray & Wilson 2011, p. 4:
Identified by oilshale using Murray & Wilson 2011.
References:
Martill, D., Ibrahim, N. Brito, P., Baider, L., Zhouri, S.. Loveridge, R., Naish, D. and Hing, R. (2011): A new Plattenkalk Konservat Lagerstätte in the Upper Cretaceous of Gara Sbaa, south-eastern Morocco. Cretaceous Research 32 (2011) 433-446.
Cavin, L. & Dutheil, D. (1999) A new Cenomanian ichthyofauna from southeastern Morocco and its relationships with other early Late Cretaceous Moroccan faunas. Geologie en Mijnbouw 78: 261–266, 1999.
Cavin, L., H. Tong, L. Boudad, C. Meister, A. Piuz, J. Tabouell, M. Aarab, R. Amiot, E. Buffetaut, G. dyke, S. Hua, and J. Le Loeuff (2010): Vertebrate assemblages from the early Late Cretaceous of southeastern Morocco: an overview. Journal of African Earth Sciences 57:391–412
Murray, A. & Wilson, M. (2011): A new species of Sorbinichthys (Teleostei: Clupeomorpha: Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 48, Number 1, January 2011 , pp. 1-9(9).
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