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Large fossil plate with the rare predatory fish Saurichthys and two Keichosaurs, Guizhou Province China, Triassic (251.9-201.3 million years), two specimens of Keichousaurus (male and female), an Asialepidotus with beautiful scales and possibly a baby; plus a particularly rare Saurichthys predatory fish; all animals are in a detailed condition, prepared in relief and partly supplemented, particularly rare and unique mixture in one plate, the Saurichthyidae are an extinct fish family whose representatives lived during the Triassic and Lower Jurassic periods. They werewidespread, elongated predatory fish with torpedo-shaped bodies, beak-like elongated jaws and conical teeth. They were 40-180 centimeters long; The dorsal and anal fins were located far back, symmetrically opposite each other. The caudal fin was externally homocerque, the scales reduced to four longitudinal rows of ganoid scales

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