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Lepidosiren

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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auditory system

Ladich and Popper 2004
otoliths
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q591800

Definition: Inner-ear structure in vertebrates which detects acceleration and may detect acoustic signals

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cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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extinction status

Paleobiology Database
extant
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant

Definition: This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.

Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon

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first appearance

Paleobiology Database
maastrichtian age
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Maastrichtian

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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Paleobiology Database

70.59999999999999 million years ago

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habitat

Paleobiology Database
freshwater
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000873

Definition: A biome that applies to the freshwater realm.

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(adult)

last appearance

Paleobiology Database
tortonian age
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Tortonian

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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Paleobiology Database

7.246 million years ago

(min)

mineralized skeleton contains

Mineralogy
apatite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52254

Definition: A phosphate mineral with the general formula Ca5(PO4)3X where X = OH, F or Cl

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mineralized tissue contains

Mineralogy
hydroxylapatite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52255

Definition: A phosphate mineral with the formula Ca5(PO4)3(OH).

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Mineralogy
aragonite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52239

Definition: Calcium carbonate (CO3Ca), aragonite structure

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motility

Paleobiology Database
actively mobile
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/activelyMobile

Definition: uses self-propelled locomotion to change location on a regular basis

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(adult)

number of fossil occurrences

Paleobiology Database

31

number of public records in bold

Barcode of Life Data Systems

60

sensory system

Bullock et al 1983
electroreception
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1326528

Definition: detection and measurement of weak electric fields, via specialized sense organs and brain structures that process this information

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sexual system

Fairbairn 2013
dioecious
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681

Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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trophic guild

Paleobiology Database
carnivore
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875

Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue

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