Palaeoxyris

id: 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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category slug: encyclopedia
description: Trace fossil
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoxyris
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date modified: 2024-04-12T17:27:55Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Palaeoxyris_diagram.jpg","width":1200,"height":1931}
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