Thursday, July 28, 2016

The Big Bang of July. (Paleozoic Era)Gemuendina

Gemuendina was a very flat bottom dwelling placoderm fish that had a similar ecological niche as modern rays.‭ ‬Although a placoderm,‭ ‬the bony armour plates on Gemuendina were quite loosely connected and would not have offered as much bony protection as the plates of other placoderms.‭ ‬Gemuendina also lacked plates on its mouth,‭ ‬and instead sucked in small organisms trough star shaped tubercle scales.

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