Protobrama avus Woodward 1942 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Tselfatiiformes - Protobramidae

Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1942. Some new and little-known Upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 9:537-568

Belongs to Protobrama according to L. Taverne and M. Gayet 2004

See also Patterson 1964, Patterson 1967 and Woodward 1942

Sister taxon: Protobrama woodwardi

Type specimen: AUB 108390-91, a skeleton. Its type locality is Hadjoula (AUB collection), which is in a Cenomanian carbonate limestone in Lebanon.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Lebanon (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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