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Description: Dapedium pholitodum fossil on display in the American Museum of Natural History (New York City). Specimen AMNH 7538, collected in Zell, Germany, and dated to the early Jurassic period. (Described in its label as having a small mouth with peglike teeth and heavily enameled scales, and being prey of ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs of the same period.)
Title: Dapedium-pholidotum-NYC
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Author: Steven G. Johnson
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