Concavotectum Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Tselfatiiformes |
Family: | † Plethodidae |
Genus: | †
Concavotectum Cavin & Forey, 2008 |
Species: | †C. moroccensis
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†Concavotectum moroccensis Cavin & Forey, 2008 vide Cavin et al., 2010
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Concavotectum is an extinct genus of freshwater plethodid ray-finned fish that lived during the Cenomanian in Morocco and possibly Egypt. [1] [2] It was discovered and named in 2008 and is known from a single well preserved hand-sized skull and a few isolated vertebrae discovered in the Kem Kem Group ( Gara Sbaa Formation). [1] [3] [4] The type species, C. moroccensis, was named in 2008 [3] and described in 2010. [1]
A possible second and third specimen, found in the Baharija Formation, consists of a 2 skulls and several vertebra, which were all destroyed on the night of 24-25 April 1940, during the Bombing of Munich in World War II. They are currently the holotype of the possible synonym Paranogmius. [5] Some differences are evident between the surviving illustrations of Paranogmius and the skull of Concavotectum, so they are tentatively considered distinct genera, and a new genus is still necessary given the destruction of the former type specimens. [3]