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Gemuendina

Gemuendina was a flattened armored fish with a broad body and paired fins.

Gemuendina was a flattened armored fish with a broad body and paired fins. Its unusual outline stands apart from both a conventional shark and a modern ray.

Gemuendina at a glance

Diet
Diet uncertain
When it lived
Early Devonian
Group
Asterosteidae
Asterosteidae

Beyond the game

The real Gemuendina

Gemuendina was a flattened armored fish with a broad body and paired fins. Its unusual outline stands apart from both a conventional shark and a modern ray.

The broad body belonged to an extinct placoderm lineage. A ray-like silhouette is a visual comparison rather than evidence that it was a modern ray.

Fossil discoveries

Gemuenden, Germany · approximate locationGermany · approximate location
Gemuenden, GermanyGermany

Selected fossil records · present-day map

Map references

Paleobiology Database · W. Stuermer and F. Schaarschmidt. 1980. Pflanzen im Hunsrueckschiefer. Versteinertes Leben im Roentgenlicht 11:19-25 ↗

Paleobiology Database · C. Bartels, D.E.G. Briggs, and G. Brassel. 1998. The fossils of the Hunsrück Slate: Marine life in the Devonian. Cambridge Paleobiology Series 3:1-309 ↗

Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.

Sources & text credits

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  1. Paleobiology Database checklist: Gemuendina stuertzi

Original English Dinosgacha summaries informed by the linked scientific and museum references; source publications retain their own rights.

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