Chordata

Scaphognathus

Scaphognathus
Scale 7 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

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Scaphognathus means “fat snout” in Latin. It has been found in Germany and may have had a good sense of sight.

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Scaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic. It had a wingspan of 0.9 m (3 ft). (From Wikipedia, February 2015) read more

Dsungaripterus weii

Dsungaripterus weii
Scale 8 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

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Dsungaripterus was first found in China in the Junggar Basin. Its jaw was designed to catch and eat fish, but rather to dig up clams along the beach and crush them with its large flat teeth.

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Dsungaripterus was a genus of pterosaur, with an average wingspan of 3 metres (9.8 ft).[1] It lived during the Early Cretaceous, in China, where the first fossil was found in the Junggar Basin. Dsungaripterus weii had a wing span of 3 to 3.5 metres (9.8-11.5 ft). Its skull, forty to fifty centimetres long, bore a low bone […] read more

Aspidorhynchus

Aspidorhynchus
Scale 6 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Chordata, Aspidorhynchiformes

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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
Scale 6 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Chordata, Actinopterygii

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Obaichthys is a primitive garfish, whose fossils have been found in Brazil.

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Lycoptera

Lycoptera
Scale 5 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Chordata, Actinopterygii

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Fossils of these freshwater fish have been found in large groups, suggesting they congregated in sandbars.

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Lycoptera is a genus of fish that lived from the late Jurassic to Cretaceous periods in present-day China, Korea,Mongolia and Siberia. It is known from abundant fossils representing sixteen species, which serve as importantindex fossil used to date geologic formations in China. Along with the genus Peipiaosteus, Lycoptera has been considered a defining member of […] read more

Ischyodus

Ischyodus
Scale 7 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Chordata, Chondrichthyes

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The long spine attached to the dorsal fin of the Ischyodus may have been venomous.

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Ischyodus is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish belonging to the subclass Holocephali, which includes the modern-day chimaeras. Fossils are known from Europe (including Russia), North America, and New Zealand. Ischyodus was rather similar to the present-day chimaera Chimaera monstrosa, which is found in theAtlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Just like C. monstrosa, Ischyodus had […] read more