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Lot 1048

Santana Formation Fish in Nodule

27 May 2010, 13:00 EDT
New York

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Santana Formation Fish in Nodule

Araripichthys castilhoi
Early Cretaceous
Santana Formation, Ceará, Brazil

The Santana Formation is a geologic Lagerstätte (undisturbed fossil accumulation) in Northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piauí and Ceará meet. The highly variable sequence of sediments of this geologic formation attest to the changeable paleoenvironment of this region during the Early Cretaceous. First described in 1985 after originally being confused with pycnodont and given its own distinctive family, Araripichthyoidei, this deep-bodied species is quite rare within the Santana Formation. Amazing preparation distinguishes the present specimen, the entire body of which is covered in small, rounded, deeply overlapping cycloid scales. Also displaying a remarkable fin-hem, the present specimen is arguably one of the finest of it kind ever discovered. Measures 30 centimeters

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