1989/12/27 by Colin Patterson, A. E. Longbottom · 3 citations
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Fish biology, ecology, and behavior #Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
paper · doi:10.2307/1445965
openalex publication_date 1989/12/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
An amiid fish of very large size (ca 3 m SL) from phosphates of probable early Eocene age in the Tilemsi Valley, Republic of Mali, is described as Maliamia gigas n. gen., n. sp. Maliamia is known only from isolated jaw bones (premaxilla, vomer, maxilla, dentary, dermopalatine, coronoid, prearticular), and is the first amiid to be described from Africa. It differs from other amiid genera in the vomerine and prearticular dentition, and so far as it and its relatives are known, is most closely related to Enneles from the early Cretaceous of Brazil.