†Coccodus armatus Pictet 1850 (ray-finned fish)
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Osteichthyes - Pycnodontiformes - Coccodontidae
Full reference: F. J. Pictet. 1850. Description de quelques Poissons Fossiles du Mont Liban 1-59
Belongs to Coccodus according to F. J. Poyato-Ariza and S. Wenz 2002
See also Davis 1887, Pictet 1850, Pictet and Humbert 1866 and Woodward 1898
Sister taxon: Coccodus insignis
Type specimen: Muséum de Genève V-674, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Hakel (Boissier collection), which is in a Cenomanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal carbonate in Lebanon.
Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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