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Extinct Ancestors of Modern Animals

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02-03-2020, 10:59 AM

" The biggest known Mawsonia specimen from Egypt and the new find from Brazil.

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Mawsonia was a genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish, and the largest of this group, up to 4 meters long. It lived during the Cretaceous period (Albian and Cenomanian stages, about 99 to 112 million years ago). Fossils have been found in the Tegana and Aoufous Formations of Morocco, the Continental Intercalaire Formation of Algeria and Tunisia and the Ain el Guettar Formation of Tunisia, Africa, the Babouri Figuil Basin of Cameroon and the Bahia Group and Alcântara and Missão Velha Formations of Brazil, South America. Mawsonia was first described by British palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward in 1907. "


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