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Spinolestes' holotype, MCCMLH30000A', hails from Las Hoyas, Spain.The living animal was about 24 centimeters long and weighted somewhere between 50 and 70 grams. As a Konservat-Lagerstätten specimen, it is famous for being remarkably well preserved, including not only the skeleton but also multiple soft tissues like fur, skin, internal organs and ears (both external and internal), a rarity ...
Spinolestes [5] Gobiconodontidae is a family of extinct mammals that ranged from the mid- Jurassic to the early Late Cretaceous , though most common during the Early Cretaceous . [ 6 ] The Gobiconodontids form a diverse lineage of carnivorous non- therian mammals, and include some of the best preserved Mesozoic mammal specimens.
Gobiconodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammals (or possibly non-mammalian mammaliaforms) belonging to the family Gobiconodontidae.Undisputed records of Gobiconodon are restricted to the Early Cretaceous of Asia and North America, but isolated teeth attributed to the genus have also been described from formations in England and Morocco dating as far back as the Middle Jurassic.
Similar to reptiles, gorgonopsians didn’t have fur or visible ears, he said. But although the animal physically resembled lizards in some ways, please don’t call it a “lizard-dog,” he told ...
Some eutriconodonts like Spinolestes and Volaticotherium were very well preserved, showing evidence of fur, internal organs and, in the latter, of patagia. Spinolestes shows hair similar to that of modern mammals, with compound hair follicles with primary and secondary hair, even preserving traces of a pore infection.
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Pelvic fin of a Java barb, a ray-finned fish The short fin spines on a coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish A lionfish, with venomous spines The stinger on a stingray's tail. Spines are found in the fins of most bony fishes, particularly actinopterygians (ray-finned fishes), who have folding fan-like fin made of spreading bony spines called lepidotrichia or "rays" covered by thin stretches of skin.
The bodies of the two men, ages 37 and 59 years old, were found in a heavily wooded area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington State, the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office said ...