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This category includes prehistoric fish known only from fossil records. First and extinct fish that lived through the Cambrian to the Tertiary. Some Endangered and recently extinct fish don't count as prehistoric fish. They go under Category:Extinct fish
Brachydegma is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the Leonardian age (Cisuralian/lower Permian) in what is now Texas, United States.It is known from two fossils, which were recovered from the Clear Fork Formation.
[8] [27] Coelacanths are large, plump, lobe-finned fish that can grow to more than 2 m (6.6 ft) and weigh around 90 kg (200 lb). [28] They are estimated to live up to 100 years, based on analysis of annual growth marks on scales, and reach maturity around the age of 55; [ 29 ] the oldest known specimen was 84 years old at the time of its ...
Placoderms were among the first jawed fish (their jaws likely evolved from the first pair of gill arches), as well as the first vertebrates to have true teeth. They were also the first fish clade to develop pelvic fins , the second set of paired fins and the homologous precursor to hindlimbs in tetrapods .
A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.
The study of prehistoric fish is called paleoichthyology. A few living forms, such as the coelacanth are also referred to as prehistoric fish, or even living fossils, due to their current rarity and similarity to extinct forms. Fish which have become recently extinct are not usually referred to as prehistoric fish.
Leedsichthys, a giant Jurassic pachycormid. This list of prehistoric bony fish is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be bony fish (class Osteichthyes), excluding purely vernacular terms.
Stratodus is a genus of giant prehistoric aulopiform fish found in Cretaceous-aged marine strata of Kansas, [1] Alabama, [2] Morocco, [3] Israel, [4] and Niger, [5] South Dakota, [6] Jordan. [7] It has also been found in the Tamaguélelt Formation of Mali , dating to the Lower Eocene , indicating that Stratodus survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene ...