Archaephippus asper, spade fish with eggs PteranodonA fine complete female Spade Fish showing excellent detail including the body cavity filled with fossilised eggs. The white circle on the image at right shows the region of the eggs. They are small round bumps Archaephippus asper is an extinct spade fish belonging to the perciforms. They lived in the lower middle Eocene (about 49 50 million years ago) and his fossil remains were found in Italy, in the famous Bolca field. This fish was very similar to
With a body mass greater than most large ungulates (horses
1---trilobite motality plate---devonian
feeding on everything from mollusks to primitive fish
Ivesheadia sp
allowing it to stab its victims with its incisors
along with its sister taxon Charniodiscus
its skull lacks the vaulted forehead of hyenas and other specialized bone-eating durophagous mammals
They could be used as a wall hanging or
which was a faster moving animal
taqueti and C
It walked on four legs and
Translation: "dragon king"