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Private collector mistakes fossil for pterosaur skull. Paleontologists determine it is lung fossil of a potentially 5 meter long coelocanth! https://phys.org/news/2021-02-enormous-ancient-fish-fossil-pterodactyl.html
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This fossil was inherited so unfortunatly I don't know the background on it. The creature within is approximatly three inches in length. It appears to have skin like an alligator with the tail of a fish, most resembling a coelocanth tail. My interest in the fossil was renewed after reading about the discovery of tiktaalik. Unlike other supposedly pre-tetrapod fishes, there is no sign of any anterior fins (besides caudal) or appendages. This has given pause to some professional paleontologists who will not even hazzard a guess as to whether what I have is, as I believe, even a vertibrate. (I ca
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