Fossil Fish <i>Romundina</i> -- Lateral View (IMAGE)

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Fossil Fish <i>Romundina</i> -- Lateral View

Caption

These two images show the skull of the small fossil fish Romundina (415 million years old) scanned at the ESRF and digitally reconstructed in three dimensions. The internal structures of the face reveal the internal anatomy show a mixture of structures of jawless and jawed vertebrates (here in left lateral view, top). External bones of two different kinds in orange and pink grey, nerves and cranial cavity in yellow, arteries in red, veins in dark blue and inner ears in light blue; anterior part of the bone rendered semitransparent in bottom image (bottom).

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Vincent Dupret, Uppsala University

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