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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.
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Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 113 – May 2014