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The Pokémon Fossil Museum (Japanese: ポケモン化石博物館, Hepburn: Pokemon kaseki hakubutsukan) is a travelling exhibition based on the Pokémon media franchise, displaying illustrations and "life-size" sculpted renditions of the skeletons of fossil Pokémon, along with the actual fossils of the real-life prehistoric animals and other organisms on which they were based.
Mawile (/ ˈ m ɑː w aɪ l / ⓘ), known in Japan as Kucheat (Japanese: クチート), is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. First introduced in the video games Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the development team wanted to push the concept of what a Pokémon could look like compared to previous installments.
A diversity of stingray fossils is known from the Eocene Monte Bolca formation from Italy, including the early stingaree Arechia, as well as Dasyomyliobatis, which is thought to represent a transitional form between stingrays and eagle rays, and the highly unusual Lessiniabatis, which had an extremely short and slender tail with no sting.
The body of Villebrunaster is that of a typical starfish having five radiating arms with the mouth at the centre of the body, facing the substrate. The mouth region is composed of three types of endoskeletons called ossicles, such as the half-cylinders or ambulacrals, the virgals that form skeleton between the ambulacrals, and a pair of mouth plates that radiate into the mouth opening. [4]
Fossils of Asterotrtygon were found in Fossil Butte, Wyoming.. Before the description of Asterotrygon, Heliobatis was the only known stingray in the Green River Formation. . American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh named Heliobatis radians in 1877, and Xiphotrygon acutidens and Palaeodasybatis discus were subsequently named from the formation in 1879 and 1947, respecti
Cownose ray teeth and mouthparts. Stingray teeth consist of interlocking bars (dental plates) that crush food. The cownose ray exhibits a durophagous diet, meaning it feeds upon hard-shelled organisms, such as mollusks, crustaceans, but they prefer scallops or clams, which have softer shells and are categorized as bivalves. [2]
Fossils of these fishes have been found worldwide. [ 9 ] The extinct species Myliobatis dixoni is known from Tertiary deposits along the Atlantic seaboards of the United States , Brazil , Nigeria , England , and Germany .
Aerodactylus (meaning "wind finger", after the Pokémon Aerodactyl) is a pterosaur genus containing a single species, Aerodactylus scolopaciceps.The fossil remains of this species have been found only in the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria, Germany, dated to the late Jurassic Period (early Tithonian), about 150.8–148.5 million years ago. [1]