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  2. Fish bone - Wikipedia

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    Fish bone is any bony tissue in a fish, although in common usage the term refers specifically to delicate parts of the non-vertebral skeleton of such as ribs, fin spines and intramuscular bones. Not all fish have fish bones in this sense; for instance, eels and anglerfish do not possess bones other than the cranium and the vertebrae.

  3. Fish anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Bones are rigid organs that form part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates. They function to move, support, and protect the various organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells and store minerals. Bone tissue is a type of dense connective tissue. Bones come in a variety of shapes and have a complex internal and external structure.

  4. Osteichthyes - Wikipedia

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    Guiyu oneiros, the earliest known bony fish, lived during the Late Silurian, 425 million years ago. [1] It has a combination of both ray-finned and lobe-finned features. Bony fish are characterized by a relatively stable pattern of cranial bones, rooted, medial insertion of mandibular muscle in the lower jaw.

  5. Cleithrum - Wikipedia

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    Cleithrum and scapula from a wrasse.The larger bone is the cleithrum. The cleithrum (pl.: cleithra) is a membrane bone which first appears as part of the skeleton in primitive bony fish, where it runs vertically along the scapula. [1]

  6. Dunkleosteus - Wikipedia

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    The plates of Dunkleosteus had both a hard cortical and a marrow-filled cancellous layer, unlike most teleost fishes and more similar to tetrapod bones. [2] [29] Mainly the armored frontal sections of specimens have been fossilized, and consequently, the appearance of the other portions of the fish is mostly unknown. [30]

  7. Fish Bones - Wikipedia

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    Fish Bones is a 2018 American romantic drama film directed by Joanne Mony Park, starring Joony Kim and Cris Gris. Cast. Joony Kim as Hana kim; Cris Gris as Nicole;

  8. Skull roof - Wikipedia

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    The full complement of bones of the tetrapod skull roof, as seen in the temnospondyl Xenotosuchus. The skull roof or the roofing bones of the skull are a set of bones covering the brain, eyes and nostrils in bony fishes and all land-living vertebrates. The bones are derived from dermal bone and are part of the dermatocranium.

  9. Cuttlebone - Wikipedia

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    Tortoise with cuttlebone Fossil cuttlebone of the Pliocene species Sepia rugulosa Fossilised cuttlebone-like gladius of Trachyteuthis [1]. Cuttlebone, also known as cuttlefish bone, is a hard, brittle internal structure (an internal shell) found in all members of the family Sepiidae, commonly known as cuttlefish, within the cephalopods.