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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. They were very different from ...
Rhenanida ("Rhine fish") were flattened, ray-like, bottom-dwelling predators with large, upturned mouths that lived in marine environments. The rhenanids were once presumed to be the most primitive, or at least the closest to the ancestral placoderm, as their armour was made of unfused components—a mosaic of tubercles—as opposed to the ...
Tiktaalik was a large fish: the largest known fossils have an estimated length of 2.75 m (9.02 feet), [2] with the longest lower jaws reaching a length of 31 centimetres (1.0 ft). [ 1 ] Skull and neck
One of the coolest, most prehistoric-looking fish lives in Florida’s offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It happens to be one of the best to eat but also one of the most elusive.
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 ...
Previous estimates of a species known as Ptychodus mortoni put it at 11.2 meters (nearly 37 feet), but the revised size is still larger than modern apex shark predators, the authors note in the study.
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
Prehistoric fish of the Mesozoic Era Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. ... Mesozoic fish of North America (3 C, 2 P)