Ctenothrissa signifer Hay 1903 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Ctenothrissiformes - Ctenothrissidae

Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1903. On a collection of upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon, Syria, with descriptions of four new genera and nineteen new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 19:395-452

Belongs to Ctenothrissa according to C. Patterson 1964

See also Hay 1903

Sister taxa: Ctenothrissa microcephala, Ctenothrissa radians, Ctenothrissa vexillifer

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hadjoula (Day collection, AMNH), which is in a Cenomanian carbonate limestone in Lebanon

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hadjoula (Day collection, AMNH)

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