Fig. 3 in Re-evaluation of pachycormid fishes from the Late Jurassic of Southwestern Germany

Fig. 3. Pachycormid fish Simocormus macrolepidotus gen. et sp. nov. (SMNS 96988/4) from the Kimmeridgian (Jurassic) of Nusplingen, Germany. Specimen in ventrolateral view (A1). Explanatory drawing of skull (A2). Close-up of jaws, showing ornamentation, dentition, and distribution of denticles external to the main tooth row on both the maxilla and dentary (A3). Skull roof and posterior braincase, asterisk indicates foramina of uncertain identity in the prootic (A4). Pectoral fin and girdle, scapulocoracoid outlined to better distinguish the poorly ossified endochondral component from the matrix (A5). Arrows indicate the expanded posterior hemilepidotrchia. Abbreviations: ao, antorbital; an, angular; ar, articular; bo, basi-exoccipital; bsp, basisphenoid; bsr, branchiostegal rays; cl, cleithrum; cl(f), facet on the internal cleithrum for articulation with the endochondral pectoral girdle; de, dentary; dpt, dermopterotic; dpcl, dorsal postcleithrum; dspo, dermosphenotic; f, frontal; gu, gular; hyo, hyomandibula; io, infraorbital; le, lateral ethmoid; mc, mandibular canal; mx, maxilla; hlt1, dorsal and ventral first hemilepidotrichia; op, opercle; pa, parietal; par, prearticular; pcl, postcleithra; pm, premaxilla; pop, preopercle; pr, posterior pectoral radial; pro, prootic; prpt, propterygium; psc, presupracleithrum; pts, pterosphenoid; qu, quadrate; r2, second pectoral radial; rdme, rostrodermethmoid; sa, surangular; sc, sensory canal; scl, supracleithrum; sco, scapulocoracoid; scr, sclerotic ring; smx, supramaxilla; so2, second suborbital + fused infraorbital; sop, subopercle; spo, sphenotic.