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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,287,1682,1708]" pageId="164" pageNumber="165">Fig. 61.</emphasis>
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. Lingual view.
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. Basal view.
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. Lateral view.
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. Basal view.
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. Tooth,
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37515, basal Gosport Sand.
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. Lingual view.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1084,1102,1788,1814]" pageId="164" pageNumber="165">F</emphasis>
. Basal view.
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. Tooth,
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37307.1, basal Lisbon Formation.
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. Lingual view.
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. Basal view. —
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1079,1128,1823,1849]" pageId="164" pageNumber="165">IQ</emphasis>
.
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37122, Tallahatta/Lisbon formation contact zone, courtesy of Bruce Relihan.
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. Anterior view.
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. Posterior view.
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. Lateral view.
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2398, Gosport Sand.
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. Anterior view.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[585,606,1929,1955]" pageId="164" pageNumber="165">N</emphasis>
. Dorsal view.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[777,800,1928,1954]" pageId="164" pageNumber="165">O</emphasis>
. Posterior view.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[999,1054,1928,1954]" pageId="164" pageNumber="165">PQ</emphasis>
. Pectoral spine,
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37111, Tallahatta/Lisbon formation contact zone, courtesy of Bruce Relihan.
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. Lateral view.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1188,1211,1964,1990]" pageId="164" pageNumber="165">Q</emphasis>
. Posterior view. Scale bars: AH=2 mm; IQ=1 cm.
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<paragraph blockId="165.[189,1399,495,745]" pageId="165" pageNumber="166">Fin spines dorsoventrally or mediolaterally compressed (depending on position), tapered distally, weakly convex proximodistally. Some specimens with rounded anterior margin, posterior margin rather flat, with shallow furrow; single row of basally directed denticles emanates from furrow; denticles decrease in size distally. Other specimens with single row of denticles on anterior and posterior edges; anterior margin denticles directed towards the distal tip, those on the posterior edge basally directed. Lateral surfaces bearing numerous irregular sub-parallel to parallel ridges (separated by narrow furrows) extending length of spine.</paragraph>
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Numerous Paleogene species of sea catfish, particularly
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<emphasis box="[856,920,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="165" pageNumber="166">Arius</emphasis>
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, have been erected based on isolated fin spines, all of which are based on variations in spine base morphology, ornamentation, and the nature of the anterior and posterior denticulations (
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;
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). It is unclear if the varied morphologies present in our sample represent the numerous species that have been described, or variation in a more limited number of species. One Gosport specimen resembles spines of
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<emphasis box="[1022,1242,984,1011]" italics="true" pageId="165" pageNumber="166">Arius heward-belli</emphasis>
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described by
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, but it is also similar to material identified by
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as belonging to a juvenile individual of
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<emphasis box="[352,503,1059,1085]" italics="true" pageId="165" pageNumber="166">A. dutemplei</emphasis>
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. Compounding this issue, denticles are known to occur on spines of other taxa of sea catfish like
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<emphasis box="[464,535,1097,1122]" italics="true" pageId="165" pageNumber="166">Bagre</emphasis>
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sp., and we therefore choose to limit the taxonomic identification of the Claiborne Group specimens to the familial level until more complete material is recovered.
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Numerous other teleost fin spines were identified within the Claiborne sample we examined, but these differ from those of the
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in having smooth dorsal and ventral surfaces. The posterior margin on these spines bear a deep V-shaped groove, the anterior and posterior margins lack denticles, and the spine base is yoke-shaped (indicating they are dorsal spines). These spines have been assigned by other researchers to indeterminate percomorph fish (see
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), but we identify them only as Teleostei.
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Stratigraphic and geographic range in
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The specimens in our sample were collected from the contact of the Tallahatta and
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formations at sites ACh-14 and ACov-11, the basal
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Formation at site ACov-11, the “upper”
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Formation at site ACh-8, the basal Gosport Sand at site ACl-4, and the Gosport Sand at site ACh-21. Lower Lutetian to middle Bartonian, zones NP14 to NP17.
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