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coelacanth

 (n): fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
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5 months ago Treeseed said:

I used to catch a kind of bowfin that was called a dogfish when I lived in Minnesota. They always reminded me of coelacanths. Bowfins are an order (Amiiformes) of primitive ray-finned fish. Only one species, the bowfin Amia calva, family Amiidae, exists today, although additional species in six families are known from Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Eocene fossils.

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