Description
Cretaceous Lungfish Tooth
- Ceratodus sp.
- Cretaceous Age
- Found near Taouz, Morocco
- North Africa
- Specimen measures 1.24″ long
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Ceratodus is an extinct genus of lungfish. It went extinct before the Eocene period. It has been described as a variety of lungfish belonging to the extinct family Ceratodontidae as well. In this case it is also related to one of only 6 lungfish species alive today. For instance the only closest living relative is from AU
By Heinrich Harder (1858-1935)
