Published December 1, 2025 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Luciobarbus undetermined

  • 1. Departament de Botànica i Geologia, Universitat de València, Doctor Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, Spain & Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, c / Columnes s / n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, c / Columnes s / n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain & IPHES-CERCA, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Zona Educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W 3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain & Departament d'Història i Història de l'Art, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Avinguda de Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain
  • 3. IPHES-CERCA, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Zona Educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W 3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain & Departament d'Història i Història de l'Art, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Avinguda de Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain
  • 4. Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment (SHEP), Hölderlinstrasse, 12 72074 Tübingen, Germany & Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Hölderlinstrasse 12, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
  • 5. Ecopetrol S. A., Bogotá, Colombia
  • 6. Departament de Geologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain
  • 7. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, c / Columnes s / n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain & Departament de Geologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

Description

Luciobarbus sp.

Fig. 2 A, B

Material.

Two pharyngeal teeth (IPS-PAM 207-15, IPS-PAM 207-16).

Description and remarks.

Both pharyngeal teeth are elongate and twisted along their longitudinal axis. The tooth crown shows an anteriorly directed pointed hook.

The genus Luciobarbus (barbel) has pharyngeal teeth arranged in three rows, with the following formula: five teeth in the first row, three in the second, and two in the third. Similar to other Barbini genera, the teeth in the first row are larger than those in the other two rows. The two small pharyngeal teeth found belong to the third row. In both cases the tooth body is compressed at the foot-crown border, and the crown is slightly narrower than the base. The pharyngeal teeth are also characterized by the presence of a hook at the top of the grinding surface (Escala and Miranda 2002; Vasylan et al. 2019).

Several species belonging to the genus Luciobarbus are currently present in Morocco (L. callensis, L. guercifensis, L. lanigarensis, L. maghrebensis, L. magniatlantis, L. nasus, L. pallaryi, L. rabatensis, L. yahyaouii, and L. zayanensis) (Clavero et al. 2017). Due to the lack of a complete pharyngeal arch, classification at the species level is not possible for these remains.

Notes

Published as part of Piñero, Pedro, Agustí, Jordi, Blain, Hugues-Alexandre, Blanco-Lapaz, Ángel, Tesón, Eliseo, Teixell, Antonio & Furió, Marc, 2025, A new Late Miocene small vertebrate assemblage from the Ouarzazate Basin (High Atlas, Morocco) and its biochronological and paleoenvironmental significance, pp. 377-395 in Fossil Record 28 (2) on pages 377-395, DOI: 10.3897/fr.28.175508

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cypriniformes
Family
Cyprinidae
Genus
Luciobarbus
Species
undetermined
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Escala MC, Miranda R (2002) Guía de identificación de restos óseos de los ciprínidos presentes en España. Escamas, opérculos, cleitros y arcos faríngeos. Publicaciones de Biología de la Universidad de Navarra. Serie Zoológica 28: 1–239. https://hdl.handle.net/10171/8272
  • Clavero M, Qninba A, Riesco M, Esquivias J, Calzada J, Delibes M (2017) Moroccan desert rivers: fish on the arid extreme of Mediterranean streams. Fish in Mediterranean Environments (FiSHMED) 3: 1–21. https://doi.org/10.29094/FiSHMED.2017.003