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🇺🇸 United StatesMooneye
A family of large-eyed North American fish known for their metallic eye shine.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1819
🇺🇸 United StatesCladoselache
Extinct Late Devonian shark-like fish known for well-preserved fossils and streamlined body.Shark · Coasts and shelves
WorldGuiyu oneiros
An early bony fish fossil from the Silurian period of China.Ancient · 2009
🇧🇷 Brazil and 4 moreMawsonia
Extinct giant coelacanth from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1907
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreStethacanthus
Extinct Devonian-Carboniferous shark with a distinctive anvil-shaped dorsal fin.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1874
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreKnightia
Extinct herring-like fish from the Green River Formation, famous for its abundant fossils.Herring · Rivers and lakes · 1856
WorldCretoxyrhina
Extinct Cretaceous mackerel shark known as the Ginsu sharkShark · Open ocean · 1822
🇦🇺 AustraliaAustralian lungfish
Ancient air-breathing fish endemic to Queensland rivers, known for its longevity and living fossil status.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1871
🇧🇴 Bolivia and 3 moreSacabambaspis
Extinct armored jawless fish from the Ordovician period of Gondwana.Ancient · Coasts and shelves · 1986
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreLeedsichthys
Extinct Jurassic giant filter-feeding fish, the largest known bony fish.Ancient · Open ocean · 1889
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Lungfish: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Mooneye: Kevmin, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Guiyu oneiros: Sun Jiao (Interaccoonale), CC BY 4.0, source
- Cladoselache: James St. John, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mawsonia: Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stethacanthus: Dmitry Bogdanov, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Knightia: Wilson44691, CC0, source
- Cretoxyrhina: Creator:Dmitry Bogdanov, CC BY 3.0, source
- Sacabambaspis: Bloopityboop, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Leedsichthys: Dmitry Bogdanov, CC BY 3.0, source