20770 - Top Rare 0.89 Inch Stephanodus Partial Dentary Bone Late Cretaceous Pyritized ammonites Rigorous comparative studies with other
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
Rigorous comparative studies with other published similar rests would be necessary to be able to perform a reliable diagnosis
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Departement de Géologie
Enchodus annectens
Etymology – In reference to the deposits which have yielded this species
20770 - Top Rare 0.89 Inch Stephanodus Partial Dentary Bone Late Cretaceous Pyritized ammonites Rigorous comparative studies with otherRare species belonging to the Trigonodontoidae family. This type of specimens in the fossil record of the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of the Ouled Abdoun Basin are not common. Stephanodus sp, Zittel 1883 (ray finned fish) Osteichthyes Tetraodontiformes Trigonodontoidae Parent taxon: Trigonodontoidae according to G. R. Case and D. R. Schwimmer 1988 See also Kumar and Loyal 1987 Subtaxa: Stephanodus lybicus Ecology: nektonic carnivore Environments: