NEW EARLY DEVONIAN VERTEBRATES (PLACODERM S, ACANTHODIANS, CHONDRICHTHYANS AND SARCOPTERYGIANS) FROM THE JAUF FORMATION (AL-HUJ AREA, SAUDI-ARABIA)

Authors
LELIEVRE H JANJOU D HALAWANI M JANVIER P ALMUALLEM MS WYNNS R ROBELIN C
Citation
H. Lelievre et al., NEW EARLY DEVONIAN VERTEBRATES (PLACODERM S, ACANTHODIANS, CHONDRICHTHYANS AND SARCOPTERYGIANS) FROM THE JAUF FORMATION (AL-HUJ AREA, SAUDI-ARABIA), Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Mecanique, physique, chimie, astronomie, 319(10), 1994, pp. 1247-1254
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Mecanique, physique, chimie, astronomie → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518069
Volume
319
Issue
10
Year of publication
1994
Part
2
Pages
1247 - 1254
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8069(1994)319:10<1247:NEDV(S>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
11 vertebrate-bearing horizons are recorded from the Jauf Formation (L ochkovien-Emsian) in the Al Huj area of Saudi Arabia. This Devonian fi sh fauna mainly consists of chondrichthyans, acanthodians and placoder ms. The latter are represented by acanthothoracids, rhenanids, ptyctod onts, petalichthyids and arthrodires (actinolepids, phylyctaeniids and primitive eubrachythoracids). A preliminary description of this mater ial, most of which are new taxa, is given here, and the fauna from one of these horizons, in the Hammamiyat Member (Emsian), seems to be clo sely comparable to that of the contemporaneous Khush-Yeilagh locality in the Iranian Alborz.