Hensodon
| Hensodon Temporal range: Upper Cenomanian[1] | |
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| Reconstructions of the male (top), and female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Infraphylum: | Gnathostomata |
| Superclass: | Osteichthyes |
| Order: | Pycnodontiformes |
| Superfamily: | Coccodontoidea |
| Family: | Coccodontidae |
| Genus: | Hensodon |
| Species: | H. spinosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Hensodon spinosus | |
Hensodon spinosus is an extinct pycnodontid that lived during the Upper Cenomanian of what is now Lebanon.[1] H. spinosus superficially resembled a marine angelfish with a massive head, and a very spiny pectoral girdle. Different specimens have different arrangements of the horn-like frontal spines. One form has the horns arranged as a double-prong, assumed to be the male, and the other form, assumed to be the female, having the horns one after the other, like those of a rhinoceros.[2]
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References
- 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ↑ CAPASSO, Luigi Lorenzo; Louis TAVERNE; Roy NOHRA (20 October 2010). "A re-description of Hensodon spinosus, a remarkable coccodontid fish(Actinopterygii, †Pycnodontiformes) from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)of Haqel, Lebanon" (PDF). Bulletin de l’Institut royal desSciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre. 80: 145–162.
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