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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
Order: Incertae sedis
Family: Incertae sedis
Genus: Errachidia
Species: Errachidia pentaspinosa
Author Citation MURRAY & WILSON, 2014
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Cretaceous
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Cenomanian / Turonian
"Continental intercalaire" Group
Akrabou Formation
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Length: 3 cm
Gara es Sbâa
Tafraoute
Tiznit Province
Morocco
Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.
Diagnosis from Murray and Wilson 2014, p. 35: "Aipichthyoidea with more dorsal fin spines than other species (five in this species compared to two or four dorsal spines in Aipichthyidae, two in Aipichthyoididae, and three in Freigichthys). Differs from Aipichthyoididae in having three epurals in the caudal skeleton instead of two. Differs from Aipichthyidae in retaining more than six rays in the pelvic fin."
Identified by A. Murray, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
References:
A. M. Murray and M. V. H. Wilson (2014) Four new basal acanthomorph fishes from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):34-48
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