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  • Tinca pliocaenica GAUDANT, 1997

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    Taxonomy

    Tench

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
    Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
    Order: Cypriniformes Goodrich 1909
    Family: Cyprinidae Rafinesque 1810
    Genus: Tinca
    Species: Tinca pliocaenica
    Author Citation GAUDANT, 1997

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Cenozoic
    Period: Neogene
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Pliocene
    International Age: Piacenzian

    Stratigraphy

    Willershausen Formation

    Provenance

    Collector: T. Bastelberger
    Date Collected: 06/01/1969
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Length: 20 cm

    Location

    Clay pit Willershausen
    Willershausen a. Harz
    Lower Saxony
    Germany

    Comments

    Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.

    Diagnosis from Gaudant 1997, p. 9 (translated from french by oilshale):"Tench with scalloped caudal fin whose length of the axial lepidotriches equals approximately 2/3 of the length of the longest rays of each lobe. Spinal column composed of 36 to 39 vertebrae. Body covered with large cycloid scales of oval shape."

    Identified by oilshale using Gaudant 1997.

     

    References:
    Weiler, W. (1933) Die Fischreste aus dem Oberpliocän von Willershausen. Arch. Hydrobiol. 25. p. 291-304.
    Gaudant, Jean (1997): L'ichthyofaune pliocène de Willershausen am Harz (Basse Saxe, Allemagne) – un réexamen. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde / B; 1997, 51 p.10 pl., 24 fig.

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    RJB

    I like this.  Very nice.

     

    RB

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