ganoid

NOUN
  1. primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering
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  • Finally, with respect to the ‘Vertebrata’, the same law holds good: certain types, such as those of the ganoid and placoid fishes, having persisted from the palaeozoic epoch to the present time without a greater amount of deviation from the normal standard than that which is seen within the limits of the group as it now exists. Essays
  • We find the same biserial primitive fin more or less preserved in the fossilised remains of the earliest Selachii (Figure 2.248), Ganoids The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
  • The ganoids had already reached their evolutionary climax in the Permian and Triassic, some 270-190 million years ago; today they are few in number when compared with the dominant bony fishes.
  • With the second earliest vertebrates, -- the ganoids of the Old Red Sandstone, -- we are more directly acquainted, and know that they exhibited the true typical form, -- a vertebral column terminating in a brain-protecting skull; and that, in at least the acanth, celacanth, and dipterian families, they had the limb-like fins. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
  • I gasped — for the fish had been a ganoid — that ancient, armoured form that was perhaps the most intelligent of all life on our planet during the Devonian era, but which for age upon age had vanished, save for its fossils held in the embrace of the stone that once was their soft bottom beds; and the half-globes were Medusae, jelly-fish — but of a size, luminosity, and colour unheard of. The Moon Pool
  • Two percent of the entire fauna are vertebrates, ganoid-scaled and bony fishes being the most common group. Messel Pit fossil site, Germany
  • Finally, with respect to the ‘Vertebrata’, the same law holds good: certain types, such as those of the ganoid and placoid fishes, having persisted from the palaeozoic epoch to the present time without a greater amount of deviation from the normal standard than that which is seen within the limits of the group as it now exists. Essays
  • They also possess a heterocercal caudal fin and remnants of ganoid scales; both are uncommon among extant actinopterygians.
  • Statistical comparisons were made among osteichthyans using ganoid scales, caudates using vertebrae, ornithischians using teeth, and testudinates using shell fragments. CONGRATS LAURA!!!
  • Bony fishes, lungfishes, & most ganoids - retain highly cartilaginous neurocranium that is covered by membrane bone
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