''Gooloogongia'' ( ) is a
genus
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of
prehistoric
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lobe-finned fish
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which belonged to the group of
rhizodont
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fishes. ''Gooloogongia'' lived during the
Late Devonian
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period (
Famennian
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stage
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, about 360
million years ago
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).
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).NSW
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Description
''Gooloogongia'' was large in size (about 90 cm). Like other lobe-finned fishes, ''Gooloogongia'' had two rows of teeth in the jaw, the outer row being small teeth, and the inner row being larger fangs. The fangs of ''Gooloogongia'' are sharp and needle-like, but they were probably not strong enough to penetrate the armor plating of small placoderms
Placodermi (from Greek πλάξ 'plate' and δέρμα 'skin', literally 'Plate (animal anatomy), plate-skinned') is a Class (biology), class of armoured prehistoric fish, known from fossils, which lived from the Silurian to the end of the Devoni ...
.
References
External links
''Gooloogongia loomesi''
* ttp://austmus.gov.au/palaeontology/field_sites/popups/canowindra61.htm Reconstruction of ''Gooloogongia loomesi''
Devonian rhizodontids and tristichopterids from East Gondwana
Late Devonian fish
Devonian bony fish
Prehistoric lobe-finned fish genera
Rhizodonts
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