Trachinus armatus Bleeker, 1861

Schwarzhans, Werner, 2023, Geology and stratigraphy of the Neogene section along the Oued Beth between Dar bel Hamri and El Kansera (Rharb Basin, northwestern Morocco) and its otolith-based fish fauna: a faunal inventory for the Early, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (4) 142 (1), pp. 1-85 : 50

Trachinus armatus Bleeker, 1861

Figure 25a

2022 Trachinus sp. —van Hinsbergh & Hoedemakers: pl. 28, Figs. 7 , 8 .

Material 3 specimens, Dar bel Hamri, Zanclean (figured specimen SMF PO 101.250 ) .

Discussion Trachinus armatus today lives along the shores of West Africa from Senegal to Angola ( Schwarzhans & Kovalchuk, 2022) but has also been tentatively recorded from the Middle Miocene of the Aquitaine Basin ( Steurbaut, 1984). See Schwarzhans (2019c) for figures of extant trachinid otoliths.

Figures

Fig. 25 Trachinidae and Uranoscopidae. a Trachinus armatus Bleeker, 1861, SMF PO 101.250, Dar bel Hamri. b–d Trachinus maroccanus n. sp., Dar bel Hamri, Zanclean, b holotype, SMF PO 101.251, c–d paratypes,SMF PO 101.252 (25c reversed). e–h Trachinus wernlii n. sp., Dar bel Hamri, Zanclean, 25 g holotype, SMF PO 101.253 (reversed), e–f, h paratypes, SMF PO 101.254 (e, h reversed). i Uranoscopus ciabatta Girone et al., 2010, SMF PO 101.287, Dar bel Hamri.j–k Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus,1758, Dar bel Hamri, SMF PO 101.255 (reversed). l–n Uranoscopus vanhinsberghi n. sp., Dar bel Hamri, Zanclean, l holotype, SMF PO 101.256 (reversed), m–n paratypes, SMF PO 101.257 (n reversed). o Uranoscopus archionema Regan, 1921, Madagascar (reversed). p–q Uranoscopus hoedemakersi n. sp., Dar bel Hamri, Zanclean, p holotype, SMF PO 101.258,q paratype,SMF PO 101.288

Fig. 7 Photoplate of selected macrofossils from the Early Pliocene coquina of section 1, ca.1.5 km south of Dar bel Hamri. A rock sample is shown in n

Fig. 8 Conceptual structural cross-section through studied area based on Zizi (1996) and own field observations (scale 1:1). Subsurface thicknesses are extrapolated from sections of nearby wells published in Saadi et al. (1980) and Sani et al. (2006). Subsurface positions of not-exposed tectonic elements after Tilloy (1952), Zizi (1996), and Zouhri et al. (2002)