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Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-19-61-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-19-61-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
Research article
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20 Jan 2016
Research article |  | 20 Jan 2016

Scale morphology and specialized dorsal scales of a new teleosteomorph fish from the Aptian of West Gondwana

P. G. Giordano, G. Arratia, and H.-P. Schultze

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This work is based on scales of a new group of Cretaceous South American fishes. Detail studies about scales are very useful, considering that many fossil fishes are known because of their squamation. Comparisons with other Mesozoic fishes were made. Among main conclusions are that these fishes present lepisosteoid-type scales (with enamel but without dentine) and in particular paired dorsal scales in the position where other fishes commonly have median dorsal ridge scales.
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