Tetragonolepis semicincta Bronn, 1830

By oilshale (edited)

• December 26, 2016

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
Order: Semionotiformes Arambourg and Bertin 1958
Family: Semionotidae Woodward 1890
Genus: Tetragonolepis
Species: Tetragonolepis semicincta
Author Citation Bronn, 1830

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
International Age: Toarcian

Stratigraphy

Posidonia Shale Formation

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Dimensions

Length: 6 cm

Location

Holzmaden, Quarry Kromer
Esslingen district
Baden-Württemberg
Germany

• holzmaden
• jurassic
• posidonia shale
• semicincta
• tetragonolepis
• tff-oilshale-ch887

Comments

The ending -lepis (=scale) is a feminine noun in apposition. It must therefore be Tetragonolepis semicincta and not T. 
 semicinctus as is often found. 

Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.

References:
G. Corroy. 1934. Les poissons et les reptiles du Muschelkalk et du Rhetien de Basse-Provence. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France 3, serie 5(5-6):475-483.
A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544.
B. G. Gardiner. 1960. A revision of certain actinopterygian and coelacanth fishes, chiefly from the Lower Lias. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 4(7): 241-384.

D. Thies. 1989. THE BRAINCASE AND THE BRAIN OF TETRAGONOLEPIS SEMICINCTA BRONN 1830 (ACTINOPTERYGII,  SEMIONOTIFORMES). Palaeontographica Abt. A, 209, p. 1-32.
D. Delsate, C. J. Duffin, and R. Weis. 2002. A new microvertebrate fauna from the Middle Hettangian (Early Jurassic) of Fontenoille (Province of Luxembourg, south Belgium). Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Belgium 48:3-83.