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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
Order: incertae sedis
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Homalopagus
Species: Homalopagus multispinosus
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: 4 cm
Gara es Sbâa
Tafraoute
Tiznit Province
Morocco
Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.
Diagnosis from Murray and Wilson 2014, p. 39: "Aipichthyoidea differing from all other known aipichthyoid genera by the much greater number of dorsal fin spines, 11 or 12, compared with two in Aipichthyoides, two to three in Aipichthys, three in Freigichthys, four in Paraipichthys and Aspesaipichthys, and five in Errachidia pentaspinosa."
Identified by A. Murray, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
References:
Alison M. MURRAY, Mark V. H. WILSON, Stacey GIBB and Brian D. E. CHATTERTON (2013): Additions to the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian/Turonian) actinopterygian fauna from the Agoult locality, Akrabou Formation, Morocco, and comments on the palaeoenvironment. Mesozoic Fishes 5 – Global Diversity and Evolution, G. Arratia, H.-P. Schultze & M. V. H. Wilson (eds.): pp. 525-548, 17 figs.
Alison M. Murray, Mark V.H. Wilson (2014): FOUR NEW BASAL ACANTHOMORPH FISHES FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MOROCCO. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):34–48, January 2014.
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