Archaephippus asper, spade fish with eggs Alamosaurus In such examples

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dense and compact bones (penguins show a similar bone profile in cross section)

5 million years ago

Archaephippus asper, spade fish with eggs Alamosaurus In such examplesA 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