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First Triassic lungfish from the Arabian Peninsula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Benjamin P. Kear ,
Thomas H. Rich ,
Mohammed A. Ali ,
Yahya A. Al-Mufarrih ,
Adel H. Matiri ,
Abdu M. Al-Masary  and
Mohammed A. Halawani
Benjamin P. Kear
Affiliation:
School of Molecular Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3086 and South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, School of Geosciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria Australia 3800
Thomas H. Rich
Affiliation:
Paleontology Department, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3000 School of Geosciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria Australia 3800
Mohammed A. Ali
Affiliation:
Saudi Geological Survey, Jiddah, 21514, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Yahya A. Al-Mufarrih
Affiliation:
Saudi Geological Survey, Jiddah, 21514, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Adel H. Matiri
Affiliation:
Saudi Geological Survey, Jiddah, 21514, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Abdu M. Al-Masary
Affiliation:
Saudi Geological Survey, Jiddah, 21514, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Mohammed A. Halawani
Affiliation:
Saudi Geological Survey, Jiddah, 21514, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Triassic lungfish (Dipnoi) have been extensively documented from the Gondwanan continental and marine shelf deposits of Africa and Madagascar (Teixeira, 1949; Lehman et al., 1959; Beltan, 1968; Martin, 1979, 1981; Kemp 1996), Australia (Kemp, 1993, 1994, 1997a, 1998), India (Jain et al, 1964; Jain, 1968), and Antarctica (Dziewa, 1980). Numerous records also exist from Laurasian landmasses including Europe (Agassiz, 1838; Schultze, 1981), North America (Case, 1921) and central and eastern Asia (Liu and Yeh, 1957; Vorobyeva, 1967; Martin and Ingavat, 1982). By comparison, nothing is known of contemporary lungfish fossils from the Middle East. Thus, the recent recovery of a single tooth plate representing a new geographic occurrence of the genus Ceratodus Agassiz, 1838 from paralic marine deposits of the Jilh Formation, a latest Anisian to lower Carnian unit that crops out along the eastern margin of the Proterozoic Arabian Shield in central Saudi Arabia (Fig. 1), is significant because it provides the stratigraphically oldest record of dipnoans from the Arabian Peninsula.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 84 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 137 - 140
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