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2. Dunkleosteus - Wikipedia

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   Dunkleosteus is an extinct genus of large arthrodire ("jointed-neck") fish that existed during the Late Devonian period, about 382–358 million years ago.It was a pelagic fish inhabiting open waters, and one of the first vertebrate apex predators of any ecosystem.

3. Holopterygius - Wikipedia

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   Holopterygius is an extinct genus of prehistoric eel-like coelacanth known from the Devonian (Givetian–Frasnian) of Germany. Despite its specialized morphology and superficial dissimilarity to the usual Paleozoic coelacanth body plan , it is one of the most basal actinistian fish.

4. Lists of prehistoric fish - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Holocephali - Wikipedia

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   Chimaeras, also known as rat fish, or ghost sharks, include three living families and a little over 50 species of surviving holocephalans. These fishes move by using sweeping movements of their large pectoral fins. They are deep sea fish with slender tails, living close to the seabed to feed on benthic invertebrates. They lack a stomach, their ...

6. Prehistoric fish in Florida: Details about smalltooth sawfish ...

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   They can grow longer than 6 feet & have fleshy "whiskers" on its snout Prehistoric fish in Florida: Details about smalltooth sawfish, alligator gar, Gulf sturgeon Skip to main content

7. Onychodus - Wikipedia

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   Onychodus (/ ɒ ˈ n ɪ k ə d ə s /, from Greek meaning "claw-tooth") [1] is a genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish which lived during the Devonian Period (Eifelian - Famennian stages, around 374 to 397 million years ago). It is one of the best known of the group of onychodontiform fishes.

8. Fins of prehistoric fish reveal origins of the human hand - AOL

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   Inside the stout fins of a fish that prowled the shallow waters of an estuary in what is now eastern Canada about 380 million years ago, scientists have found what they call the evolutionary ...

9. Holoptychius - Wikipedia

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   Holoptychius (from Greek: όλος holos, 'whole' and Greek: πτυχή ptyche 'fold') [1] is an extinct genus of porolepiform lobe-finned fish from the Middle Devonian to Carboniferous (Mississippian) periods. It is known from fossils worldwide. The genus was first described by Louis Agassiz in 1839. [2]