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- noun Any of several
extinct fish of the order Iniopterygia
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Examples
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The fossil was found in an iniopterygian, an extinct ancestor of modern ratfishes (see albino ratfish picture), which are distant relatives of sharks and rays.
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The structure of the skull (foreground) of a 300-million-year-old iniopterygian fish from Kansas remotely related to living ratfish is elucidated thanks to holotomography, a technique based on synchrotron X-ray phase contrast imaging (background), and yields the first hint at an exceptional mineralization of the brain (orange).
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The structure of the skull (foreground) of a 300-million-year-old iniopterygian fish from Kansas remotely related to living ratfish is elucidated thanks to holotomography, a technique based on synchrotron X-ray phase contrast imaging (background), and yields the first hint at an exceptional mineralization of the brain
unknown title 2009
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This reflects the curious arrangement of the iniopterygian ear, which was optimized for side-to-side movement, but not up and down movement.
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Maisey and co-authors report in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science that the brain was discovered in a fossilized iniopterygian from Kansas, which they had sent for scanning at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.
unknown title 2009
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The team from the National Natural History Museum in Paris (MNHN in French), the ESRF and the American Museum of Natural History in New York was using the synchrotron to study one of the few skulls of an iniopterygian fish that has maintained its three dimensions (most of them are squashed).
unknown title 2009
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Paleontologist Alan Pradel of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, performed an initial examination on four iniopterygian skulls from Kansas and Oklahoma and found that one had an unusual "blob" inside it.
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Maisey and co-authors report in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science that the brain was discovered in a fossilized iniopterygian from Kansas, which they had sent for scanning at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.
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First, most specimens of the early fish, known as an iniopterygian and distantly related to modern sharks and ratfishes, are squashed flat and reveal no details of skull anatomy.
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Reconstruction of large iniopterygian Sibyrhynchus denisoni.
Livescience.com 2009
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