Hensodon

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Hensodon

Hensodon spinosus is an extinct pycnodontid that lived during the Upper Cenomanian of what is now Lebanon.[1] H. spinosus superficially resembled a marine angelfish with a massive head, and a very spiny pectoral girdle. Different specimens have different arrangements of the horn-like frontal spines. One form has the horns arranged as a double-prong, assumed to be the male, and the other form, assumed to be the female, having the horns one after the other, like those of a rhinoceros.[2]

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Hensodon
Temporal range: Upper Cenomanian[1]
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Artist's impression of a male (top) and female
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pycnodontiformes
Family: Coccodontidae
Genus: Hensodon
Kriwet, 2004
Species:
H. spinosus
Binomial name
Hensodon spinosus
Kriwet, 2004
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