Tag Archive for 'Holocephali'

Reconstruction of Maghriboselache mohamezanei in its habitat. Thylacocephalans, cephalopods with orthoconic conchs, placoderms such as Dunkleosteus and osteichthyans populated the water column during the middle Famennian in the Anti-Atlas of Morocco. Image credit: Klug et al., doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00266-6.

Devonian Shark-Like Fish Had Unique Sensory Specialization

Apr 3, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of broad-snouted chondrichthyan fish from several fossilized specimens found in Morocco. Reconstruction...

Extant Chimaera monstrosa. Image credit: MAREANO / Havforskingsinstituttet / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Carboniferous-Period Chimaeras Were Suction Feeders, New Study Suggests

Jan 17, 2023 by News Staff

Suction is an especially effective way of feeding underwater, and adaptations to enhance it have evolved numerous times in jawed vertebrates. The only...

Reconstruction of the early chimaera Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni. Image credit: Kristen Tietjen.

Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni: Permian Fossil Reveals Origins of Chimaeras

Jan 4, 2017 by News Staff

CT scans of the fossilized skull of Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni — a shark-like fish that lived during the Permian period, around 280 million years...