Hensodon
| Hensodon Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Artist's impression of a male (top) and female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pycnodontiformes |
| Family: | †Coccodontidae |
| Genus: | †Hensodon Kriwet, 2004 |
| Species: | †H. spinosus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Hensodon spinosus Kriwet, 2004 | |
Hensodon spinosus is an extinct pycnodontid that lived during the Upper Cenomanian of what is now Lebanon. H. spinosus superficially resembled a marine angelfish with a massive head, and a very spiny pectoral girdle. Different specimens have different arrangements of the horn-like frontal spines. One form has the horns arranged as a double-prong, assumed to be the male, and the other form, assumed to be the female, having the horns one after the other, like those of a rhinoceros.