Sentence examples for extinct fishes from inspiring English sources

Spiny shark, also called Acanthodian, any of a class (Acanthodii) of small extinct fishes, the earliest known jawed vertebrates, possessing features found in both sharks and bony fishes.

Most of this time was spent in the discovery and description of extinct fishes, reptiles, and mammals of the western United States, from Texas to Wyoming.

Documentation of the slowly changing flow through time, as envisaged by Darwin, emerges clearly from Romer's studies of the evolution of extinct fishes, amphibians, and reptiles.

Pycnodontiformes, order of extinct fishes of the class Actinopterygii, containing the genus Pycnodus, common in the Jurassic seas of 200 million to 146 million years ago.

The book recorded Miller's reconstruction of the extinct fishes he had discovered in the Old Red Sandstone and contended, on theological grounds, that their perfection of development disproved the theory of evolution.

Already Agassiz had become interested in the rich stores of the extinct fishes of Europe, especially those of Glarus in Switzerland and of Monte Bolca near Verona, of which at that time only a few had been critically studied.

(The company now plans to move on to re-creating extinct fish for display in museums).

To estimate the extinct fish's size, Dahdul measured dozens of skeletons from modern piranhas and pacus.

Talk about election irregularities: In Barton County, Kansas, an extinct fish got 235 votes on 7 November, only 15 fewer than Ralph Nader.

In the 1970s water quality dropped to its lowest levels resulting in the implementation of various Rhine restoration programs, including the reintroduction of endangered and/or temporarily extinct fish species [13 16].

Fossils of extinct fish with paired, pudgy, or "lobed" fins suggest that their fins evolved into limbs in an ancestral vertebrate that crawled onto land millions of years ago.