Scombroclupea occidentalis sp. nov. (Clupeiformes,Teleostei) from the Cenomanian (Cretaceous) Plattenkalk deposits of NE Mexico |
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| Authors: | Samuel Giersch Eberhard Frey Wolfgang Stinnesbeck Christina Ifrim José Manuel Padilla Gutierrez |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Referat für Pal?ontologie und Evolutionsforschung,Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde,Karlsruhe,Germany;2.Ruprecht-Karls-Universit?t, Institut für Geowissenschaften,Heidelberg,Germany;3.Museo del Desierto, Prol. Pérez Trevi?o 3745, Centro Metropolitano Parque Las Maravillas,Saltillo,Mexico |
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| Abstract: | A new species of the clupeid genus Scombroclupea is described from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Plattenkalk locality “Loma la Mula” in Coahuila, northeastern Mexico. The material provides new osteological data for the genus, which clarify its systematic position. The Mexican Scombroclupea points to an occurrence of the genus in the western Tethys and indicates a vicariant event between S. macrophthalma from Lebanon and Croatia and the new species described herein. The analysis of the functional morphology of Scombroclupea supports the reconstruction of an oscillatory locomotion mode in this genus. |
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