Corusichthys
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pycnodontiformes |
| Family: | †Coccodontidae |
| Genus: | †Corusichthys Taverne & Capasso, 2014 |
| Species: | †C. megacephalus
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| †Corusichthys megacephalus Taverne & Capasso, 2014
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Corusichthys is an extinct marine pycnodontiform that lived during the Late Cretaceous of what is now Lebanon. It contains a single species, C. megacephalus from the late Cenomanian-aged Haqel site of the Sannine Formation.[1][2][3]
C. megacephalus is known from a 34 mm long fossil. It had plates arranged like a helmet around its head, and had a massive, triangular spine on its dorsal side.[1] C. megacephalus is closely related the genera Trewavasia and Hensodon, as well as Coccodus.[1][4][5]
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c d L. Taverne; L. Capasso (2014). "Ostéologie et phylogénie des Coccodontidae, une famille remarquable de poissons Pycnodontiformes du Crétacé supérieur marin du Liban, avec la description de deux nouveaux genres". Palaeontos. 25. Archived from the original on 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
- ^ George, Hady; Bazzi, Mohamad; Hossny, Tamara El; Ashraf, Nida; Saad, Pierre Abi; Clements, Thomas (2024-04-29). "The famous fish beds of Lebanon: the Upper Cretaceous Lagerstätten of Haqel, Hjoula, Nammoura, and Sahel Aalma". Journal of the Geological Society. 181 (5). Bibcode:2024JGSoc.181..210G. doi:10.1144/jgs2023-210. ISSN 0016-7649.
- ^ Amalfitano, Jacopo; Giusberti, Luca; Fornaciari, Eliana; Carnevale, Giorgio (2020-04-03). "Upper Cenomanian Fishes from the Bonarelli Level (Oae2) of Northeastern Italy". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 126 (2). doi:10.13130/2039-4942/13224. ISSN 2039-4942.
- ^ Capasso, Luigi (2024-08-02). "Biodiversity of †pycnodonts (Actinopterygii) during the Cenomanian–Turonian (Upper Cretaceous)". Historical Biology. 36 (8): 1557–1569. Bibcode:2024HBio...36.1557C. doi:10.1080/08912963.2023.2221269. ISSN 0891-2963.
- ^ Cawley, John J.; Marramà, Giuseppe; Carnevale, Giorgio; Villafaña, Jaime A.; López-Romero, Faviel A.; Kriwet, Jürgen (2021). "Rise and fall of †Pycnodontiformes: Diversity, competition and extinction of a successful fish clade". Ecology and Evolution. 11 (4): 1769–1796. Bibcode:2021EcoEv..11.1769C. doi:10.1002/ece3.7168. ISSN 2045-7758. PMC 7882952. PMID 33614003.
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