14015- Great Coccodus insignis Pycnodontiform Fish Fossil Cretaceous Age Lebanon
14015- Great Coccodus insignis Pycnodontiform Fish Fossil Cretaceous Age Lebanon 14015- Great Coccodus insignis Pycnodontiform Fish Fossil Cretaceous Age Lebanon 14015- Great Coccodus insignis Pycnodontiform Fish Fossil Cretaceous Age Lebanon 14015- Great Coccodus insignis Pycnodontiform Fish Fossil Cretaceous Age Lebanon 14015- Great Coccodus insignis Pycnodontiform Fish Fossil Cretaceous Age Lebanon

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14015- Great Coccodus insignis Pycnodontiform Fish Fossil Cretaceous Age Lebanon

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Species
Coccodus insignis Pycnodontiform Fish Fossil
Age
Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian stage (~94 million years)
Location
Hjoula, Byblos, Lebanon
Formation
Sannine Formation
Size
104 mm   •    in
Weight
365 g   •    oz
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Description
†Coccodus (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Coccodus is an extinct genus of extinct pycnodontid fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian. The various species had a pair of massive, curved spines emanating from the lower sides of the head, and one curved spine on the top of its head. Unlike most pycnodontids (which tend to have short, marine butterflyfish-like bodies), Coccodus species had a comparatively long body, giving the living animals a superficial resemblance to a scaly chimaera. These fishes comes from the Cretaceous 100 million years old These fossil deposits were first mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus where he said there were "fish in the stones".
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