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Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Clade: Eugnathostomata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Infraclass: Euselachii
Superorder: Galeomorphii
Order: Orectolobiformes
Family: Ginglymostomatidae
Genus: Nebrius
Species: N. thielensis†
· Project
Stephanorhinus hemitoechus
Sculptured hyperrealist reconstruction in fire retardant polyester resin. Very resistant to outdoor conditions and public areas.
Plasticine model moulded with silicone.
Oil paint and glass eyes.
Internal metallic structure.
· Year
2008
· Commissioned by
Benia de Onís Town Hall
Skull of extinct marsupial Thylacosmilus atrox at Natural History Museum, London.
Thylacosmilus atrox Riggs, 1934
Thylacosmilidae
Sparassodonta
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Clade: Eugnathostomata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Infraclass: Euselachii
Superorder: Galeomorphii
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Mitsukurinidae
Genus: †Anomotodon
Species: †A. novus
Salpeterkop was the last active volcano south of the Equator around 66 milion years ago. Seismographically, Sutherland and the surrounding area are the quitest in the world. This, and the lack of light pollution make it an ideal spot for star gazing...
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Clade: Eugnathostomata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Infraclass: Euselachii
Superorder: Galeomorphii
Order: Lamniformes
Family: †Otodontidae
Genus: †Otodus
Species: O. obliquus
Extinct monsters : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson ... with illustrations by J. Smit and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896.
LABOURER HANGS HIMSELF.
A labourer named John O'Connor, a married man about 50 years of age, committed suicide at Newmarket on Saturday afternoon. He was found dead suspended front the roof of an out house at the rear of premises occupied by his brother-in-law, Mr Edward Deary, about 6 p.m. The body was promptly cut down, but it was evident that life had been extinct for some considerable time. Deceased had been separated from his wife for six or seven years, but about a month ago he visited her at Mr Deary's residence and had some conversation with her. Deceased also leaves four children, one being the issue of his marriage with his present wife, and three by a former wife.
THE INQUEST.
An inquest was conducted this morning at Gleeson's Hotel by Mr T. Gresham (City Coroner) on the body of John O'Connor. Sergeant Hanson conducted the case for the police.
James Hunter deposed that he last saw the deceased alive some months ago. On Saturday last about dusk he was at Mr Deary's house. Shortly after he arrived Deary went out to chop some wood, and witness soon afterwards joined him. Hunter went into the outhouse, and in the darkness he saw what he imagined was a bundle of rags. He never suspected that it was a man, and as he was going out he passed some remark about there being a sack of rags in the outhouse to Deary who made the reply, "That's no bundle of rags." The next thing witness remembered was seeing the body lying on the ground, some few feet from the shed. Deary cut the body down and brought it out. Hunter, who had had a few drinks, and whose memory was not very clear, did not touch the body, and he had no idea who the deceased was until the arrival of Constable Mackie, who had been summoned by Deary. In reply to a question by Sergeant Hanson, witness said he had not been drinking that afternoon with Deary, but he had several drinks with other people.
Dr. Savage, who had inspected the body, was of the opinion that the deceased was between 45 and 50 years of age. With the exception of the mark made by the rope round the neck, there were no other marks of violence. From the depth of the rope mark he judged that the body had been hanging some time. Death was due to suffocation, and from the absence of any signs of a struggle, he thought that the injuries were self-inflicted.
At this juncture the foreman intimated that the jury were desirous of viewing the scene of the fatality, the hearing of the evidence being deferred until their return from Newmarket.
The hearing of the evidence in the inquest on John O'Connor was continued shortly after midday.
Edward Deary identified the body as that of his brother-in-law. The first time he saw O'Connor on Saturday last was when he saw his body on the grass. He was not aware previously that O'Connor had been on any part of his premises that day. About 6.30 p.m. he admitted Hunter into the house. Shortly before seven o'clock witness went out to cut some wood. Hunter passed him and went into the outhouse, where he remained for a minute or two. Looking round a little while after witness saw Hunter pushing some dark object with his foot, and he (Deary) called out. "Hullo, Jim. what's that?"' Hunter replied that it was a sack of rags. Not knowing what such a thing would be there, he went to look, and saw what at first he took to be a drunken man. He had no recollection of making the remark, "That's no bundle of rags," but it was possible that he did. As soon as he got close he recognised O'Connor. After cutting the rope from O'Connor's neck witness satisfied himself that the body was quite cold and life was extinct. He and Hunter then went and reported the matter to Constable Mackle. He always thought the deceased was a level-headed man, though for some time he had been drinking pretty freely. In reply to a question from a juryman as to who cut the body down and took it outside, witness said he could not say. The first he saw of the body was when it was lying on the glass outside the outhouse.
Constable Mackie gave evidence that he was summoned about seven p.m. by Hunter and Deary to New-street, where he found the deceased lying outside the outhouse. The constable gave corroborative evidence on other essential points.
Addressing the jury the coroner said the case was not an ordinary one. The evidence of the doctor showed that the cause of death was suffocation, and in the opinion of the doctor the hanging was self-indicted. It was clear that one of the two men who were in the yard took the body out to the position in which it was found by the police, but which it was they could not establish. As to the man's mental condition, there was no evidence to show that the deceased's mind was unbalanced.
The jury retired to consider their verdict, returning the decision that the deceased's death was due to strangulation by hanging, self-inflicted, whilst temporarily mentally deranged.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19041010.2.56
Plot 18: John O'Connor (50) 8/11/1904 – Labourer – Labourer – Strangulation
Plot 20: Sarah Jane O'Connor (36) 29/6/1892 – Tumor
unmarked graves
DEATHS.
O'CONNOR.—On June 29, at the Hospital, Sarah Jane, the beloved wife of John O'Connor; aged 36 years. R.I.P.
The funeral will leave her late residence, Cook-street, to-morrow (Friday), at 2.30 p.m. Friends are invited.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18920630.2.34
If you are worried about your or someone else's mental health, the best place to get help is your GP or local mental health provider. However, if you or someone else is in danger or endangering others, call police immediately on 111.
Or if you need to talk to someone else:
1737, Need to talk? Free call or text 1737 any time for support from a trained counsellor
Lifeline – 0800 543 354 or (09) 5222 999 within Auckland
Samaritans – 0800 726 666
Suicide Crisis Helpline – 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO)
thelowdown.co.nz – or email team@thelowdown.co.nz or free text 5626
Anxiety New Zealand – 0800 ANXIETY (0800 269 4389)
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Explication :
L'idée de cette photo sur le thème de la couleur m'est venue à cause d'un "ratage". En aidant les enfants à nettoyer les pots d'encres, les magnifiques mélanges des couleurs vives au fond de l'évier à l'écoulement paresseux m'ont interpelé. Le temps d'attraper l'appareil, tout avait disparu. Du coup, j'ai figé l'instant de cette disparition. C'est grâce à la couleur que cette photo existe.
Perpignan (66): les sapeurs pompiers s'entrainent a gerer une fuite de gaz en procédant au pincement et extinction
Thylacine at Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge MA, United States. Front view with skeleton.
Built-in extinction meter and its lookup table on a Perfex Fifty Five.
Nikon D90
AF Micro–Nikkor 60mm ƒ/2.8 D
ISO200; 15sec @ ƒ/32
3exp (±2EV) HDR merge, tone-mapped
Conulariids are an uncommon to rare, extinct group of fossil organisms known from the Cambrian to the Triassic. They are most common in Mississippian sedimentary rocks. Their form is best described as "four-sided ice cream cones with ridges". They have a four-sided, tapering skeleton having tetrameral radial symmetry. The skeleton is somewhat flexible, often has a brownish color, and is composed of chitionphosphate (a mixture of chitin and calcium phosphate). Some paleontologists conclude it is an extinct group of cnidarians, or even a group of scyphozoan cnidarians. Others refer to conulariids as an extinct phylum. Available evidence indicates they are triploblastic, and so are not cnidarians at all, which are diploblastic.
Very rare soft-part preservation shows the presence of an alimentary canal, with the pointed end of the skeleton oriented downward and attached to a sheath.
Classification: Animalia incertae sedis, Conulata, Conulariida
Stratigraphy: unrecorded
Locality: unrecorded
Placenticeras placenta (Dekay, 1828) - fossil ammonite from the Cretaceous of western North America. (CM 25570, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
Ammonites are an extinct group of swimming squid-like organisms with planispirally coiled shells (the chambered nautilus in modern oceans is a distant relative of ammonites, but has a similar body plan). Ammonite shells were originally composed of aragonite (CaCO3). This specimen still has the original nacre ("mother of pearl"). The irregularly-shaped holes are inferred tooth punctures, possibly from a mosasaur. Bite marks are a type of trace fossil - any indirect evidence of ancient life.
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Ammonite info. from the Wyoming Geological Museum in Laramie, Wyoming:
Ammonites
Ammonites are extinct molluscs of the Class Cephalopoda, a group represented today by the octopus, squid, and shell-bearing Nautilus. Ammonites appeared midway through the Paleozoic Era (400 million years ago). They diversified many times over their 300 million year history, and persisted through three mass-extinction events. During the Mesozoic Era (from 250 to 65 million years ago), ammonites reached their greatest diversity, achieving many different shell forms and ways of life. At the end of the Mesozoic Era, ammonites became extinct, together with the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles.
Ammonite Anatomy
Ammonites, like the modern Nautilus, possessed an external shell divided into a series of chambers by thin walls called septa. These chambers were connected by a flesh-bearing tube known as the siphuncle. By analogy with the living Nautilus, it served to regulate fluid and gas levels in each chamber, enabling ammonites to control their buoyancy. Although ammonites are common fossils, little is known about their soft parts. However, it is thought that their soft anatomy was similar to that of modern squid and octopi. They probably possessed eight to ten arms surrounding a beak-like mouth. Locomotion probably involved bringing water into a cavity, formed by the fleshy mantle, then expelling it by muscular contraction through a funnel-like opening called the hyponome, therby implementing a form of jet-propulsion.
Ammonite Ecology
Ammonites were common constituents of Cretaceous marine ecosystems and were represented in many habitats in the shallow seas that covered North America during the Mesozoic Era. Ammonites lived in both nearhsore and offshore settings in both benthic (seafloor) and pelagic (open ocean) habitats. Some species could probably even migrate between both types of habitats.
Feeding Habits
Most ammonites, like their modern cephalopod relatives, were probably carnivores, although some may have been passive planktivores. The carnivorous ammonites possesssed powerful jaws adapted for crushing prey, which included crustaceans, fish, clams, snails, and even other ammonites.
Reproduction and Growth
Ammonites, like their modern relatives the octopi and squids, hatched as tiny larvae in huge numbers and probably grew to maturity within a short span of time. Most adults were small, while those of some species were huge, reaching sizes greater than 6 feet (2 meters) in diameter. Aberrant ammonites that changed their shape during growth are thought to have changed their habitat as well.
Ammonite Sexes
Like modern cephalopods, ammonites showed distinct differences between sexes. Shells of female ammonites, known as macroconchs, are larger and possess little or no ornamentation. Males, known as microconchs, are smaller than females and commonly possess distinct ornamentation.
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Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea, Ammonitina
Stratigraphy: unrecorded / undisclosed Upper Cretaceous unit
Locality: unrecorded / undisclosed site in western North America
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
This piece was created directly from an experience that I had in Regina in May 2015. My friend and I were at a venue when a man started telling homophobic jokes. My friend asked him if he was homophobic and his response was, “Hunny, its 2015! We are past homophobia.” This response made us both feel unsafe as everyone around us agreed with him. Not only did this make us feel unsafe causing us to leave the venue, he implied something much more deeper. His implication was that because she didn’t fit the stereotype of a lesbian that it was somehow still okay to say. That only someone who fit into societies constructed stereotype could be offended by his comments. This disregard to the LGBTQ community was a reminder that our fight for equality is not over. This individual made it sound like the LGBTQ community needs to stop complaining about their rights and simply get over it. This is a direct response to heterosexual privilege and not having to worry or consider one’s safety of the spaces one’s body inhabits.
Big 5. Elephant. Elefante. Kruger Park. South Africa. Jan/2019
Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea. Three species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis), and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Elephantidae is the only surviving family of the order Proboscidea; other, now extinct, members of the order include deinotheres, gomphotheres, mammoths, and mastodons.
All elephants have several distinctive features, the most notable of which is a long trunk (also called a proboscis), used for many purposes, particularly breathing, lifting water, and grasping objects. Their incisors grow into tusks, which can serve as weapons and as tools for moving objects and digging. Elephants' large ear flaps help to control their body temperature. Their pillar-like legs can carry their great weight. African elephants have larger ears and concave backs while Asian elephants have smaller ears and convex or level backs.
Elephants are herbivorous and can be found in different habitats including savannahs, forests, deserts, and marshes. They prefer to stay near water. They are considered to be a keystone species due to their impact on their environments. Other animals tend to keep their distance from elephants while predators, such as lions, tigers, hyenas, and any wild dogs, usually target only young elephants (or "calves"). Elephants have a fission–fusion society in which multiple family groups come together to socialise. Females ("cows") tend to live in family groups, which can consist of one female with her calves or several related females with offspring. The groups are led by an individual known as the matriarch, often the oldest cow.
Males ("bulls") leave their family groups when they reach puberty and may live alone or with other males. Adult bulls mostly interact with family groups when looking for a mate and enter a state of increased testosterone and aggression known as musth, which helps them gain dominance and reproductive success. Calves are the centre of attention in their family groups and rely on their mothers for as long as three years. Elephants can live up to 70 years in the wild. They communicate by touch, sight, smell, and sound; elephants use infrasound, and seismic communication over long distances. Elephant intelligence has been compared with that of primates and cetaceans. They appear to have self-awareness and show empathyfor dying or dead individuals of their kind.
Source: Wikipedia
Os elefantes são animais herbívoros, alimentando-se de ervas, gramíneas, frutas e folhas de árvores. Dado o seu tamanho, um elefante adulto pode ingerir entre 70 a 150 kg de alimentos por dia. As fêmeas vivem em manadas de 10 a 15 animais, lideradas por uma matriarca, compostas por várias reprodutoras e crias de variadas idades. O período de gestação das fêmeas é longo (20 a 22 meses), assim como o desenvolvimento do animal que leva anos a atingir a idade adulta. Os filhotes podem nascer com 90 kg. Os machos adolescentes tendem a viver em pequenos bandos e os machos adultos isolados, encontrando-se com as fêmeas apenas no período reprodutivo.
Devido ao seu porte, os elefantes têm poucos predadores. Exercem uma forte influência sobre as savanas, pois mantêm árvores e arbustos sob controle, permitindo que pastagens dominem o ambiente. Eles vivem cerca de 60 anos e morrem quando seus molares caem, impedindo que se alimentem de plantas.
Os elefantes-africanos são maiores que as variedades asiáticas e têm orelhas mais desenvolvidas, uma adaptação que permite libertar calor em condições de altas temperaturas. Outra diferença importante é a ausência de presas de marfim nas fêmeas dos elefantes asiáticos.
Durante a época de acasalamento, o aumento da produção de testosterona deixa os elefantes extremamente agressivos, fazendo-os atacar até humanos. Acidentes com elefantes utilizados em rituais geralmente são causados por esse motivo. Cerca de 400 humanos são mortos por elefantes a cada ano.
Elefante é o termo genérico e popular pelo qual são denominados os membros da família Elephantidae, um grupo de mamíferos proboscídeoselefantídeos, de grande porte, do qual há três espécies no mundo atual, duas africanas (Loxodonta sp.) e uma asiática (Elephas sp.). Há ainda os mamutes (Mammuthus sp.), hoje extintos. Até recentemente, acreditava-se que havia apenas duas espécies vivas de elefantes, o elefante-africano e o elefante-asiático, uma espécie menor. Entretanto, estudos recentes de DNA sugerem que havia, na verdade, duas espécies de elefante-africano: Loxodonta africana, da savana, e Loxodonta cyclotis, que vive nas florestas. Os elefantes são os maiores animais terrestres da actualidade, com a massa entre 4 a 6 toneladas e medindo em média quatro metros de altura, podem levantar até 10.000 kg. As suas características mais distintivas são as presas de marfim
Fonte: Wikipedia
This card is number one in a a series of extinct animal cards. It is printed with black water based speedball ink from a hand carved linoleum block. It is of the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis). It was a big flightless bird related to puffins and murres that was formerly native to the North Atlantic. It was last sited on July 3rd of 1844.
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Amorphea
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Clade: Choanozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Clade: Eugnathostomata
Clade: Teleostomi
Superclass: Tetrapoda
Clade: Reptiliomorpha
Clade: Amniota
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Theriimorpha
Clade: Theriiformes
Clade: Trechnotheria
Clade: Cladotheria
Clade: Zatheria
Clade: Tribosphenida
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Clade: Exafroplacentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
(unranked): Scrotifera
Grandorder: Ferungulata
Clade: Ungulata
Order: Artiodactyla
Clade: Artiofabula
Clade: Cetruminantia
Clade: Cetancodontamorpha
Suborder: Whippomorpha
Clade: Cetaceamorpha
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Mysticeti
Superfamily: Physeteroidea
Family: Kogiidae
Genus: †Kogiopsis
Species: †K. floridana
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Alleys like this were a standard feature of most residential neighborhoods for several decades. At some point though -- probably in the 1950's or 60's -- planners and developers decided alleys were unnecessary, a waste of land. Instead, they laid out streets and built houses so each homeowner would have a paved driveway right smack in the front yard, leading to a big, ugly garage door that would become a prominent feature of the front facade of the house. It was another way of underscoring how central cars would be to a modern, urban way of life.
Thank goodness the alleys remain in our neighborhood, though, like shady lanes by which one can get a more intimate view of back yards, gardens and people outside doing things. This is one of my favorites.
In the early days of plantation farming, water was diverted from these coastal waterfalls toward the sugar cane fields on Kauai's west side. What remains is the skeleton of a once powerful waterfall. The remains leaves an eerie reminder of humanity's power over nature.
Photo taken aboard Makana, a speedy yet spacious and stable catamaran offering daily trips to Kauai's famous Na Pali Coast.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Amorphea
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Clade: Choanozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Class: Actinopterygii
(unranked): Actinopteri
Subclass: Neopterygii
Order: †Pycnodontiformes
Family: †Pycnodontidae
Genus: †Gyrodus
Species: †G. hexagonus
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Clade: Eugnathostomata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Infraclass: Euselachii
Superorder: Galeomorphii
Order: Orectolobiformes
Family: Ginglymostomatidae
Genus: Ginglymostoma
Species: G. chenanei†
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
(unranked): Bilateria
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Dipnoi
Order: Ceratodontiformes
Family: Neoceratodontidae
Genus: Neoceratodus
Species: N. nargun†