Myxinikela
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myxinikela-248-18374800
title:
Myxinikela
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Myxinikela is an extinct genus of stem-hagfish known from the Late Carboniferous of Illinois, USA. It is the earliest definitive hagfish known from fossil remains, and one of only two alongside the Cretaceous crown-group hagfish Tethymyxine. Myxinikela's anatomy displays basal features of cyclostomes, giving it a somewhat lamprey-like appearance, but it also has numerous derived traits of hagfishes such as a nasohypophyseal aperture, large velar cavity, and a cardinal heart; due to this, Myxinik
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description:
Extinct genus of stem-hagfish
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxinikela
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date modified:
2024-03-13T16:28:42Z
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