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@VladimirDinets @MarkWitton @albertonykus @digital_duck Coelacanths were known from complete specimens 100 years before the living one was rediscovered. For example, this is Macropoma mantelli named by Agassiz in 1835.
https://t.co/MCKN1V3RVs
Me: *Studying for my paleontology test*
“.... The coelacanth ...”
My mind immediately:
@ziqqix 👁️u👁️ (I'll answer here if you don't mind!) irish elk, wooly mammoth, quetzalcoatlus & all the extinct variant of coelacanth
Coelamon
(Coelacanth)
Ancient Fish
Attacks:
Variable Darts
Iron Scale
Kamitsuki
They probably went undetected for so long since they had adapted to live in the deep sea, which is a poorly represented environment in the fossil record. It's a similar situation to the gap between Cretaceous and modern coelacanths. Art by @paleospot. #FossilFishWeek
Coelamon
(Coelacanth)
Ancient Fish
Attacks:
Variable Darts
Iron Scale
Kamitsuki
@v_lacanth Wait I love /demonfish/ coelacanths!! /Lovefishingthem/ I'm an orange fairy with a human form too so I've got 2 outfits really, but I'm all about being bright~
Compared to living coelacanths #Holopterygius_nudus was tiny, just 7 cm long, and reminds us that coelacanths were morphologically much more diverse in the past and were experimenting with an eel lifestyle long before true eels evolved hundreds of million years later. #EelOrNoEel
OK, all you exceptional eels & elvers, it's time for the #EelOrNoEel revEEL. This week's featured creature is a sneaky #NoEel imposter or what I like to call a coEELacanth. Meet #Holopterygius_nudus, an eel-like coelacanth that lived in the mid-Devonian ~385 million years ago.
Here's Eliza the Coelacanth, my #FISHSONA (even though my main sona is a leopard I enjoy all species!).
Art heavily referenced from other art (for pose and such).
Okay okay I’ll post my #FISHSONA I’ve a coelacanth and an electronic vaporwave eel and I need to draw them >:0 but after all the freebies hehe
(@/pinewoif and @/cricketcollie)