Mesomyzon
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mesomyzon-294-7441686
title:
Mesomyzon
text:
Mesomyzon mengae is an extinct lamprey from freshwater strata of the Early Cretaceous-aged Yixian Formation, in China. The animal's exquisitely preserved fossils show a creature very similar to modern-day lampreys, having a well-developed sucking oral disk, a branchial basket, at least seven pairs of gill pouches and corresponding gill arches, impressions of gill filaments, and at least 80 myomeres of its musculature. It had the same three phase life cycle found in modern lampreys. A phylogeneti
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of lamprey
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesomyzon
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date modified:
2024-02-12T17:15:54Z
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