20770 - Top Rare 0.89 Inch Stephanodus Partial Dentary Bone Late Cretaceous

20770 - Top Rare 0.89 Inch Stephanodus Partial Dentary Bone Late Cretaceous

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20770 - Top Rare 0.89 Inch Stephanodus Partial Dentary Bone Late Cretaceous

20770 - Top Rare 0.89 Inch Stephanodus Partial Dentary Bone Late Cretaceous

$67.55
Sale price  $67.55 Regular price  $96.50
Rare 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: marginal marine, marine, estuary/bay , terrestrial , carbonate , coarse channel fill , shallow subtidal , lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal , coastal , fluvial-lacustrine , transition zone/lower shoreface

Age range: 161.2 to 40.4 Ma

Distribution:

• Eocene of India , Pakistan 

• Cretaceous of Bolivia, France , India , Jordan , Mexico , Niger , Syria , United States ( Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina), Morocco.

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of France

• Jurassic of France 


Stephanodus sp : Fossilworks (Paleobiology Database)

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