A COELACANTH
INDONESIA
From the middle Triassic (247-237 million years ago) the 8-inch Whiteiidae showing excellent preservation of scales and three-dimensionality to head.
11in. (28cm.) long in matrix
A COELACANTH
INDONESIA
From the middle Triassic (247-237 million years ago) the 8-inch Whiteiidae showing excellent preservation of scales and three-dimensionality to head.
11in. (28cm.) long in matrix
专家说明
The most famous of all fossil fish, the Coelacanth was thought to be extinct for over 66 million years, and was known only from the fossil record until the discovery by a museum curator in 1938 from a fisherman's catch on the Chalumna river.
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