Mesturus verrucosus WAGNER, 1862

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata Haeckel 1874
Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
Order: Pycnodontiformes Berg, 1937 sensu Nursall, 2010
Family: Mesturidae Nursall 1996
Genus: Mesturus
Species: Mesturus verrucosus
Author Citation WAGNER, 1863

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: 8,5 cm

Location

Rygol Quarry
Painten
Bavaria (state)
Germany

• jurassic
• mesturus
• painten
• rygol quarry
• tithonian
• weissjura group

Comments

Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org

Identified as juvenile Mesturus verrucosus by M. Ebert, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

References:

Wagner A. (1862): Monographie der fossilen Fische aus den lithographischen Schiefern Bayerns.– Erste Abtheilung: Plakoiden und Pyknodonten.– Abhandlungen der königlich bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-physikalische Classe, 9(2): 279–352 + 4 plates. 

Nursall, J. R. (1999) . The family †Mesturidae and the skull of pycnodont fishes. In G. Arratia & H.-P. Schultze (eds.)Mesozoic Fishes 2 – Systematics and Fossil Record: pp. 153-188, 23 figs., 2 tabs. © 1999 by Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, Germany – ISBN 3-931516–48-2