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
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.