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Ginkgo
Ginkgoopsida
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The fan-shaped leaves of this ancient ginkgo tree, now extinct, are similar to modern ginkgo leaves.
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Ginkgo is a genus of highly unusual non-flowering plants. The scientific name is also used as the English name. The order to which it belongs, Ginkgoales, first appeared in the Permian,[4] 250 million years ago, possibly derived from “seed ferns” of the order Peltaspermales. The rate of evolution within the genus has been slow, and […] read more
Aeger elegans
Aeger elegans
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Aeger elegans is a species of shrimp that was found in the Solnhofen limestone of Germany.
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Aeger elegans is a species of fossil prawn from the Solnhofen Plattenkalk.[1] (From Wikipedia, February 2015) read more
Nymphaeales (Water Lily)
Nymphaeales order
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Water lily fossils have been found from as early as the Cretaceous period.
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Nymphaeales is an order of flowering plants, consisting of three families of aquatic plants, the Hydatellaceae, the Cabombaceae, and the Nymphaeaceae (water lilies). It is one of the three orders of basal angiosperms, an early-diverging grade of flowering plants. At least 10 morphological characters unite the Nymphaeales.[2]Molecular synapomorphies are also known. The Plant List, created […] read more
Waterscorpion
Nepidae family 
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Waterscorpions are insects, but are not closely related to true scorpions.
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Nepidae is a family of exclusively aquatic Heteropteran insects in the order Hemiptera.[1] They are commonly called waterscorpions for their superficial resemblance to scorpions, which is due to their raptorial forelegs and the presence of a long slender process at the posterior end of the abdomen, resembling a tail. There are 14 genera in the […] read more
Aspidorhynchus
Aspidorhynchus
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Aspidorhynchus was a speedy, two-foot long fish, with tooth-lined, elongated jaws.
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Aspidorhynchus (meaning “shield snout”) is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Jurassic andCretaceous periods. Fossils have been found in Europe and Antarctica. Aspidorhynchus was a slender, fast-swimming fish, 60 centimetres (2.0 ft) long, with tooth-lined, elongated jaws. It also had heavy scales and a symmetrical tail. The upper jaw was longer than the lower […] read more
Obaichthys
Obaichthys 
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Obaichthys is a primitive garfish, whose fossils have been found in Brazil.
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