Palaeospondylus

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title: Palaeospondylus
text: Palaeospondylus is a prehistoric fish, a fossil vertebrate. Its fossils are described from the Achanarras slate quarry in Caithness, Scotland. The fossil as preserved is carbonized, and indicates an eel-shaped animal up to 6 centimetres (2 in) in length. The skull, which must have consisted of hardened cartilage, exhibits pairs of nasal and auditory capsules, with a gill apparatus below its hinder part, and ambiguous indications of ordinary jaws. The phylogeny of this fossil has puzzled scientis
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description: Extinct genus of vertebrates
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeospondylus
date created: 2005-08-14T12:24:01Z
date modified: 2024-09-15T05:36:16Z
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