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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
Order: Perleidiformes Berg 1937
Family: Perleididae Brough 1931
Genus: Dipteronotus
Species: Dipteronotus aculeatus
Author Citation (JÖRG, 1969)
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Triassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
Bunter Group ("the colored one")
Plattensandstein Formation
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Quarry "Hochstädt" near Durlach
Karlsruhe
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
This fish was first described under the name Praesemionotus aculeatus JÖRG, 1969
Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.
Diagnosis for the genus from Tintori 1990, p. 194: "Small high-bodied fish with the dorsal crest made up by ll ridge scales; maximum height of the body (crest excluded) equal to 54% of the s.l.: head length equal to 36% of s.l.; dorsal fin consisting of 22 lepidotrichia, caudal of 26 (at least 6 of which are epaxial) and anal of 15 lepidotrichia; trunk scales with a backward directed spine at the center of their posterior edge."
Reconstruction of D. olgiatii TINTORI, 1990
Identified by oilshale using Jörg 1969.
Jörg, E. (1969): Eine Fischfauna aus dem Oberen Buntsandstein Unter-Trias von Karlsruhe-Durlach Norbaden. Beitraege zur Naturkundlichen Forschung in Suedwestdeutschland, 28: 87-102
Gall, JC.; Grauvogel, L.; Lehman, JP.(1974): Faune du Buntsandstein. 5. Les poissons fossiles de la collection Grauvogel - Gall. Annales Paleont (Vert): 602: 127-168
Tintori, A. (1990): DIPTERONOTUS OLGIATII N. SP. (ACTINOPTERYGII, PERLEIDIFORMES) FROM THE KALKSCHIEFERZONE OF CA' DEL FRATE (N. ITALY) (Preliminary note). Atti. Tic. Sc. Terra, 33 (1990), 191-197,2figg., 1 pl.
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