Coccodus insignis Fossil Fish

Order Pycnodontiformes, Family Pycnodontidae

Carpopenaeus sp. Fossil Shrimp

Geological Time: Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage

Size (25.4 mm = 1 inch): Fish fossil is 99 mm long and 35 mm across, Shrimp fossil is 66 mm on 139 mm by 110 mm matrix.

Fossil Site: Lebanese Lagerstätte, Hajoula, Lebanon

Code: L170

Price: $435

Description: This plate displays a rarely seen example of Coccodus insignis in association with a fine shrimp of the genus Carpopenaeus. Coccodus had broad rounded teeth resembling cobblestones. They were presumably employed in crushing the shells of mollusks and small crustaceans it found while sifting through the bottom muck. The genus went extinct by the Upper Cretaceous, leaving no descendants.