Neoproscinetes penalvai is an uncommon fossil fish known only from a few specimens found in numerous museum collections in Europe, North America and Brazil. This is rare life-like 3D state of breath-taking preservation. Dinosaurs ruled the earth and pterosaurs ruled the skies when this fish swam amidst the depths of a Cretaceous sea. Neoproscinetes was a type of extinct fish called a Pycnodont, meaning "dense tooth". These fish are typified by their deep, laterally compressed bodies and "shell crusher" type rounded pebble-like teeth. This made them well-suited to feed on armored prey such as small crustaceans like shrimp and crabs as well as shellfish, snails and sea urchins.
The this specimen was found in Brazil's Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous of about 110 million years ago.
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سازند سانتانا برزیل
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ابعاد :360x215mm
سن: کرتاسه زیرین(-110 milion )
این یک گونه کمیاب و نادر فسیل ماهی از سازند سانتانا برزیل میباشد که فقط در بعضی از مراکز اروپا و امریکا موجود میباشد آن هم نه برای فروش بلکه فقط در موزه ها نگهداری میشوند و بیشتر ماکت یا مولاژآن به فروش میرسد آین گونه دارای دندانهای متراکم بوده و برای خرد کردن سخت پوستان کوچک نظیر میگوها کاربرد داشته است