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New Devonian predatory fish

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  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    The skull actually looks like it's laughing! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Probably being told fishy jokes does that to it.

    Interesting looking creature isn't it. I like the way it is pictured in shallow water too. Do we know if that was in fact how it lived?


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    According to Wiki it was first described in 1941. I'm guessing from fragmentary remains.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laccognathus


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Probably being told fishy jokes does that to it.

    Interesting looking creature isn't it. I like the way it is pictured in shallow water too. Do we know if that was in fact how it lived?

    It makes sense- Tiktaalik was found in the same site, and it was probably not living in deep water.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 SvenLittkowski


    I would like to know more, like who found the fossils, where exactly, and what the exact age of the fossil is.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭Allosaur


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Probably being told fishy jokes does that to it.

    Interesting looking creature isn't it. I like the way it is pictured in shallow water too. Do we know if that was in fact how it lived?
    I'd imagine that it filled a similar niche as the modern Catfish. Slow moving rivers, lakes and ponds. Still, dark shallow. That kind of thing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    I would like to know more, like who found the fossils, where exactly, and what the exact age of the fossil is.

    Apparently a different species of Laccognathus has been known since 1941. More information below:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laccognathus


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