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Your backgrounds are getting more and more neat, Dzombs! \O


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Mesacanthus - 2cm

There is a line of thought that the Acanthodians were the ancestors of Sharks.

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:-? -O- ;-)


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How big is it, Dzombs? 0()


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Richprins wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:20 pm How big is it, Dzombs?
Fish is about 2cm


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Trilobite - Flexicalymene ouzregui.
Ordovician (+- 485 million yeara ago)
Morocco
Approx 7cm

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What is it...an insect?


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Not an insect
An Arthropod

Aquatic. Lived on the sea bed.


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Very old :shock: :shock:


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^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^


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