Coelacanth Fish Fossils † Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 from Lebanon

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Coelacanth Fish Fossils † Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 from Lebanon By: Prof. Dr. Sc. Norman Ali Bassam Ali Taher Khalaf-Sakerfalke von Jaffa When I was writing some articles about the Coelacanth Fishes, I noticed that there were some Lebanese Coelacanth fish fossil specimens for sale on the internet and other specimens were in Museums or Private Collections.

These coelacanth fish fossils belong to the species † Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 from the Upper Cretaceous (Middle Cenomanian) Limestone in Haqel (Hakel) and Hajula, Lebanon.

A coelacanth fossil Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 from Lebanon. Photo at the Senckenberg Museum of Frankfurt, Germany. Photo by Ghedoghedo. 19 August 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macropomoides_orientalis_-_Lebanon.jpg

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Genus Macropomoides Woodward 1942 The body is relatively deep and reaches about 300 mm SL. The head bones are without ornament; a preorbital is absent; the lachrymojugal is narrow beneath the eye and barely larger than the enclosed sensory canal; postorbital is deep, expanded dorsally with a narrow ventral limb; the squamosal is very small and both the spiracular and the preoperculum may be absent. The premaxilla carries a few stout teeth. The operculum is rounded poster-odorsally with a very oblique ventral margin. Sensory canals open by a few large pores on the parietonasal shield; the angular and splenial each have four large sensory pores. Teeth upon the parasphenoid are restricted to the anterior third of the bone. The principal

A coelacanth fossil Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 from the Cretaceous Cenomanian Sannine Limestone of Hajoula, Lebanon. Museum Quality B- . Weight 460 gram, Slab’s size 15.5 cm x 16 cm, fish 9.5 cm. Price $ 600.00. Item location: Trieste, Italy. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOIC-FOSSIL-FISH-LEBANON-COELACANTHMACROPOMOIDES-ORIENTALIS-UNPREPARED-/110950562251 Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 113 – May 2014

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coronoid has a distinct waist and a longitudinally expanded head. The gular plates are twice as long as broad. The anocleithrum is forked dorsally with a narrow dorsal limb and a broad anterodorsal limb. Short ribs are developed throughout the posterior half of the abdominal region. The caudal fin has a rounded posterior margin which encloses the supplementary lobe. Pointed denticles are present on at least the first three rays of D1 and the leading rays of the principal caudal lobes. The pelvic bone is a simple rod with a proximal lateral expansion and the D1 support has a prominent anteroventrally directed thickened ridge. The scales are ornamented with many closely spaced denticles which, like the denticles on the fins, bear many fine striations. Those scales beneath and behind the level of D1 show a prominent central denticle (the only denticle present in small specimens) (Forey 1997/1998, Khalaf 2013).

The species Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 reaching 30 cm estimated SL, HL/SL=26%, PD1/SL=35%, TL/SL=18%, CL/SL=32%, TD/SL=30%, CP/SL=20%, PV/SL=43%, D1=8, D2=14, C=20/19, AbdV=55, CauV=20.

Proportional measurements based on two small specimens: meristic counts based on four small specimens (Woodward 1942, Forey 1997/1998).

A coelacanth fossil Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 from the Cretaceous Cenomanian Sannine Limestone of Hajoula, Lebanon. Museum Quality B- . Weight 460 gram, Slab’s size 15.5 cm x 16 cm, fish 9.5 cm. Price $ 600.00. Item location: Trieste, Italy. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOIC-FOSSIL-FISH-LEBANON-COELACANTHMACROPOMOIDES-ORIENTALIS-UNPREPARED-/110950562251 Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 113 – May 2014

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The generic and specific diagnoses are based primarily on small specimens and it is possible that when more complete large individuals are found they will have to be revised. Some features such as the lack of ornament and the weak development of the squamosal may be juvenile features. However, there remains the possibility that the small and large individuals represent different taxa. The restoration provided is based on small individuals. Some remarks are therefore necessary (Forey 1997/1998).

Woodward (1942) erected the species solely on the holotype (AUB 108935) which, based on proportions of the complete smaller specimens, must have been a fish of about 30 cm. Another large, but disarticulated tail (MNHN HDJ-73-22) is known, again probably from a comparable-sized fish. The remaining specimens, although articulated, are much smaller (< 10 cm SL) and there are differences in certain features between them and the holotype. The scales of the small individuals are more delicately ornamented or lack ornament completely, and the rays of D1 lack expanded tips (a feature considered diagnostic by Woodward). A number of features suggest that the small specimens are juvenile: the endochondral fin supports and pelvic girdle are lightly ossified; the scales are very thin and carry little ornamentation. All these features are seen in young Rhabdoderma exiguum and in Coccoderma nudum which also are thought to be juvenile forms (Forey 1997/1998).

Gaudant (1975) was also unsure whether the small specimens were juvenile Macropomoides orientalis or separate species. She further recognized two forms of small individuals which she called ‘coelacanthe B’ (two specimens) and ‘coelacanthe C’ (one specimen). The differences between them were alleged to be the slightly more anterior placement of the pelvic bone relative to the pectoral lobe and the dorsal fin in ‘B’ than in ’C’ and the fact that form ‘B’ showed scales with a small central spine-like denticle (in large specimens the scale ornament consists of a spine-like central denticle flanked by many small denticles) (Forey 1997/1998).

species

Macropomoides orientalis

Woodward, 1942

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kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Chordata chordates » class Sarcopterygii » order Coelacanthiformes coelacanth » family Latimeriidae - coelacanths Temporal range:

Upper Cretaceous

The fossil specimens of the coelacanth fish Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 from the Upper Cretaceous (Middle Cenomanian) originate from the Hakel and Hajula sites in Lebanon.

Author: Dr. Norman Ali Khalaf-von Jaffa

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A coelacanth fossil Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) Limestone of Haqel, Lebanon.

Size: 65 mm in length, 15 mm height on a 98 mm by 70 mm matrix. Price: $825.00. http://www.fossilmall.com/EDCOPE_Enterprises/fish/fishfossils1/fishfossils-1b.htm & http://www.fossilmall.com/EDCOPE_Enterprises/fish/fishfossils1/L472B.jpg Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Number 113 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; May 2014

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A coelacanth fossil Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) Limestone of Haqel, Lebanon.

Size: 65 mm in length, 15 mm height on a 98 mm by 70 mm matrix. Price: $825.00. http://www.fossilmall.com/EDCOPE_Enterprises/fish/fishfossils1/L472D.jpg & http://www.fossilmall.com/EDCOPE_Enterprises/fish/fishfossils1/L472A.jpg Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Number 113 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; May 2014

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A coelacanth fossil Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) Limestone of Haqel Quarry, Lebanon. Fish size: 7.1 cm long, Matrix size: 10.7 x 8.9 cm. Price $ 374.99. Item location: New Brighton, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.ebay.com/itm/DetailedCretaceous-Fossil-Coelacanth-Fish-Macropomoides-Lebanon-/271298246660 Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Number 113 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; May 2014

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The pictures above and below of the 7.1 cm long rare coelacanth specimen from Lebanon is complete except for a small missing section of the tail. All of the rest of the fins are preserved with exceptional detail. The detail on the skull, delicate teeth, body, scales and fins is impressive.

This is likely a juvenile specimen because of the large eye (dark spot) and small size of the fish. This specimen has no restoration and the colour is natural. This specimen has been coated to protect the fish and the delicate bones but this can be washed off easily with water. This specimen has one repaired break but no restoration.

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A coelacanth fossil Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Lebanon. Fossil No.: SF3696. Harun Yahya Collection. http://en.harunyahya.net/coelacanth-fossils-fossilinformation-2/

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A coelacanth fossil Macropomoides orientalis from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Lebanon. Fossil No.: SF3696. H. Yahya Collection.

A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis with its pair fossil from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Hjoula, Lebanon. Fossil No.: SF2347.

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A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis with its pair fossil from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Hjoula, Lebanon. Fossil No.: SF2347.

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A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (100 million years ago) from Hjoula, Byblos, Lebanon. Fossil Width/Height 15 cm.

Fossil No.: SF0816. Harun Yahya Collection. http://en.harunyahya.net/coelacanthfossils-pictures-of-fossils/ Up to 1938, it was believed that coelacanth fossils represented the solution to a serious problem for evolutionists, who needed evidence documenting the imaginary emergence of living things from the sea onto dry land. They therefore took fossils of the coelacanth, which they believed was well suited to this scenario, and began making propaganda regarding them. They interpreted the animal’s fins as ‘feet about to walk’ and another unidentified organ as ‘a primitive lung.’ Yet striking proof soon emerged that none of these interpretations had any validity at all. The capture by fisherman of a living coelacanth in 1938 came as a terrible disappointment to evolutionists. James Leonard Brierley Smith, a professor in the Rhodes University Chemistry Faculty, expressed his amazement in these words: ‘Although I had come prepared, that first sight hit me like a white-hot blast and made me feel shaky and queer, my body tingled. I stood as if stricken to stone. Yes, there was not a shadow of doubt, scale by scale, bone by bone, fin by fin, it was a true Coelacanth’ (Samantha Weinberg, 2001). Detailed examinations were conducted of the coelacanth’s structure and internal organs, which had no primitive features as had been imagined and bore no intermediate-form characteristics of any imaginary primitive forebear. The structure that evolutionists imagined to be a primitive lung was actually a swim bladder filled with fat in the creature’s body.

In addition, this creature, depicted as a prospective reptile preparing to emerge onto dry land, was actually a bottom-dwelling fish inhabiting deep waters and not rising above depths of 180 meters. Therefore, according to Dr. Millot, who conducted the investigation, this life form, which should have represented the Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 113 – May 2014

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‘missing link,’ they were seeking, lacked the primitive features of the living thing they claimed had evolved (Samantha Weinberg, 2001). Very simply, it was no intermediate form, but had existed with the same complex characteristics in deep waters for 400 million years (Harun Yahya).

A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (100 million years ago) from Hjoula, Byblos, Lebanon. Fossil Width/Height 15 cm.

Fossil No.: SF0816. Harun Yahya Collection. http://en.harunyahya.net/coelacanthfossils-pictures-of-fossils/ Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 113 – May 2014

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A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Lebanon. Fossil No.: SF2632. Harun Yahya Collection. http://en.harunyahya.net/coelacanth-fossils-hd-fossil-photographs/ Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Number 113 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; May 2014

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A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Lebanon. Fossil No.: SF2632. Harun Yahya Collection. http://en.harunyahya.net/coelacanth-fossils-hd-fossil-photographs/

A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Hjoula, Lebanon. Fossil No.: SF2724. Harun Yahya Collection. http://en.harunyahya.net/coelacanth-fossils-fossil-information/ Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Number 113 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; May 2014

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A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Hjoula, Lebanon. Fossil No.: SF2724. Harun Yahya Collection. http://en.harunyahya.net/coelacanth-fossils-fossil-information/

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A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Lebanon. Fossil No.: SF3699. Harun Yahya Collection. http://en.harunyahya.net/coelacanth-fossils-fossil-museum/

A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Lebanon. Fossil No.: SF3699. Harun Yahya Collection. http://en.harunyahya.net/coelacanth-fossils-fossil-museum/

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A coelacanth Macropomoides orientalis from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Lebanon. Fossil No.: SF3699. Harun Yahya Collection. http://en.harunyahya.net/coelacanth-fossils-fossil-museum/ The coelacanth is a large fish some 150 centimeters in length, whose body is all covered by thick scales reminiscent of armor. It is a member of the class of bony fishes (Osteichthyes), of which the earliest fossils are found in strata belonging to the Devonian Period (417 to 354 million years ago). For years, evolutionists portrayed fossils belonging to this vertebrate as belonging to an intermediate form, until the capture of a live coelacanth invalidated such claims. Research into the fish's anatomy again inflicted a major defeat on Darwinists (Harun Yahya).

In an article in Nature magazine, an evolutionist paleontologist named Peter L. Forey (1988) said this: "The discovery of Latimeria [coelacanth] raised hopes of gathering direct information on the transition of fish to amphibians, for there was then a long-held belief that coelacanths were close to the ancestry of tetrapods . . .

But studies of the anatomy and physiology of Latimeria have found this theory of relationship to be wanting and the living coelacanth's reputation as a missing link seems unjustified."

The latest information regarding the complex structure of the coelacanth continues to pose difficulties for evolutionists. This problem was expressed in Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Number 113 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; May 2014

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Focus magazine (2003): "According to fossils, fish emerged some 470 million years ago. The coelacanth emerged 60 million years after that. It is astonishing that this creature, which would be expected to possess very primitive features, actually has a most complex structure."

For evolutionists insisting on a gradual process of evolution, the appearance of the coelacanth with its complex structure naturally came as a major surprise. Yet there is nothing surprising about this at all. Any rational person is able to understand that God creates all living things, together with their complex structures, in the form and at the time He so desires, and in a single moment. The entities flawlessly created by God are all means by which His might and power can be appreciated (Harun Yahya).

Coelacanth Fossil with both negative and positive slabs from the Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage (95 million years ago) from Lebanon. http://harunyahya.com/en/Books/4632/atlas-of-creation--/chapter/4495

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Position in a system << Go back one level - Macropomoides

species

Macropomoides orientalis

Woodward, 1942

system

Vitae - living organisms

domain

Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells

superregnum

Unikonta

system

Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987

kingdom

Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals

subregnum

Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910

divisio

Bilateria Hatschek, 1888

subdivisio

Deuterostomia - deuterostomes

phylum

Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates

subphylum

Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates

infraphylum

Gnathostomata Zittel, 1879 - jawed vertebrates

superclassis

Osteichthyes Huxley, 1880 - bony fishes

class

Sarcopterygii Romer, 1955

subclass

Coelacanthimorpha

superorder

Actinistia

order

Coelacanthiformes Berg, 1937 - coelacanth

family

Latimeriidae Berg, 1940 - coelacanths

genus

Macropomoides †

species

Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942 †

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Position in a system. Species Macropomoides orientalis. BioLib. Biological Library. http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonposition/id1075888/

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Position in a system << Go back one level - Macropomoides

species

Palestine Coelacanth Macropomoides palaestina

Khalaf, 2013

system

Vitae - living organisms

domain

Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells

superregnum

Unikonta

system

Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987

kingdom

Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals

subregnum

Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910

divisio

Bilateria Hatschek, 1888

subdivisio

Deuterostomia - deuterostomes

phylum

Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates

subphylum

Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates

infraphylum

Gnathostomata Zittel, 1879 - jawed vertebrates

superclassis

Osteichthyes Huxley, 1880 - bony fishes

class

Sarcopterygii Romer, 1955

subclass

Coelacanthimorpha

superorder

Actinistia

order

Coelacanthiformes Berg, 1937 - coelacanth

family

Latimeriidae Berg, 1940 - coelacanths

genus

Macropomoides †

species

Macropomoides palaestina Khalaf, 2013 - Palestine Coelacanth †

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Position in a system. Species Palestine Coelacanth Macropomoides palaestina. BioLib. Biological Library. http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonposition/id1075889/ Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 113 – May 2014