Polazzodus
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polazzodus-229-835450
title:
Polazzodus
text:
Polazzodus is an extinct pycnodontid from the late Cretaceous of the Polazzo locality of north-eastern Italy. The paleoenvironment of Polazzo was a large marine carbonate platform and shallow internal lagoons formed from rudist reefs. P. coronatus is known from numerous specimens, many of which were very well-preserved. The new genus Polazzodus was erected based on a number of autapomorphies that distinguished it from similar pycnodontid fish. These include a second dorsal ridge scale, presence
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of fishes
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polazzodus
date created:
2010-06-16T22:59:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T11:40:13Z
main entity:
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13
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