''Gooloogongia'' ( ) is a
genus
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of
prehistoric lobe-finned fish
Sarcopterygii (; ) — sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii () — is a taxon (traditionally a class or subclass) of the bony fishes known as the lobe-finned fishes. The group Tetrapoda, a mostly terrestrial superclass includ ...
which belonged to the group of
rhizodont fishes. ''Gooloogongia'' lived during the
Late Devonian period (
Famennian
The Famennian is the latter of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian Epoch. The most recent estimate for its duration estimates that it lasted from around 371.1 million years ago to 359.3 million years ago. An earlier 2012 estimate, still used b ...
stage
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Acting
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* Sta ...
, about 360
million years ago
The abbreviation Myr, "million years", is a unit of a quantity of (i.e. ) years, or 31.556926 teraseconds.
Usage
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).
[Age of Fishes Museum, Canowindra]
/ref> Fossils have been found in the Canowindra site, ( Australia).
Description
''Gooloogongia'' was large in size (about 90 cm). Like other lobe-finned fishes, ''Gooloogongia'' had two rows of teeth in the jaw, the outer row being small teeth, and the inner row being larger fangs. The fangs of ''Gooloogongia'' are sharp and needle-like, but they were probably not strong enough to penetrate the armor plating of small placoderms
Placodermi (from Greek πλάξ 'plate' and δέρμα 'skin', literally 'plate-skinned') is a class of armoured prehistoric fish, known from fossils, which lived from the Silurian to the end of the Devonian period. Their head and thorax were ...
.
References
External links
''Gooloogongia loomesi''
* ttp://austmus.gov.au/palaeontology/field_sites/popups/canowindra61.htm Reconstruction of ''Gooloogongia loomesi''
Devonian rhizodontids and tristichopterids from East Gondwana
Late Devonian fish
Devonian bony fish
Prehistoric lobe-finned fish genera
Rhizodonts
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