Where: Palestinian Territory (32.0° N, 35.2° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 14.8° N, 40.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Cenomanian to Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Bet Meir or the slightly younger Amminadava Formation, middle part of the Judea Group, early to middle Cenomanian, early Late Cretaceous.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe
Primary reference: J. J. Cawley and J. Kriwet. 2018. A new pycnodont fish, Scalacurvichthys naishi gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of Israel. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16(8):659-673 [M. Clapham/S. Hegde/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 221654: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.08.2021
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Scalacurvichthys naishi n. gen. n. sp.
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