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Bulldog Fish
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Kimmeridgian
Weissjura Group
Painten Formation
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Length: 25 cm
Rygol Quarry
Painten
Bavaria
Germany
Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.
There are two Allothissops species: A. salmoneus from the Solnhofen lithographic limestones in Bavaria and A. mesogaster from the slightly older deposits in Nusplingen, Baden-Württemberg. The small dorsal fin is located behind the anal fin.
References:
Blainville, H. de (1818) Sur les ichthyolites ou les poissons fossiles. Nouveau Dictionnaire d’Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux ´ arts, à l’économie rurale et domestique, à la Medicine ` , 27, 310–395.
Nybelin, O. (1964) Versuch einer taxonomischen Revision des Jurassischen Fischgattung Thrissops AGASSIZ. Goteborgs ¨ Kungl. Vetenskaps och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar ¨ , 4, 1–44.
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