Palaeoxyris
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palaeoxyris-202-163779
title:
Palaeoxyris
text:
Palaeoxyris is a morphogenus of eggs cases, widely thought to have been produced by hybodonts, with a predominant occurrence in ancient freshwater environments. They comprise a beak, a body and a pedicle. They display a conspicuous right-handed spiral of collarettes around the body, and in some cases, the pedicle, resulting in a rhomboidal pattern when flattened during fossilisation. At the end of the beak was a tendril which attached the egg to vegetation during development. The body of the egg
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Trace fossil
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoxyris
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-12T17:27:55Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Palaeoxyris_diagram.jpg","width":1200,"height":1931}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15