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Tench
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Pliocene
International Age: Piacenzian
Willershausen Formation
Collector: T. Bastelberger
Date Collected: 06/01/1969
Acquired by: Field Collection
Length: 20 cm
Clay pit Willershausen
Willershausen a. Harz
Lower Saxony
Germany
Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.
Diagnosis from Gaudant 1997, p. 9 (translated from french by oilshale):"Tench with scalloped caudal fin whose length of the axial lepidotriches equals approximately 2/3 of the length of the longest rays of each lobe. Spinal column composed of 36 to 39 vertebrae. Body covered with large cycloid scales of oval shape."
Identified by oilshale using Gaudant 1997.
References:
Weiler, W. (1933) Die Fischreste aus dem Oberpliocän von Willershausen. Arch. Hydrobiol. 25. p. 291-304.
Gaudant, Jean (1997): L'ichthyofaune pliocène de Willershausen am Harz (Basse Saxe, Allemagne) – un réexamen. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde / B; 1997, 51 p.10 pl., 24 fig.
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