Examples of Fossil Jaws (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Examples of Fossil Jaws

Caption

A sample of lower jaw diversity from 400 million years ago which includes from top to bottom: a giant 8-meter apex predator, a lungfish with a duck-like snout, a reef-dwelling representative of a totally extinct group of vertebrates, a fish-like relative of land animals, and a shark-like cousin of bony fishes. Jaws are not to scale and all are oriented so their front end is to the left.

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Simon Powell

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