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Cosmine is a spongy, bony
material that
makes up the dentine-like
layers in the
scales of the lobe-finned
fishes of the
class Sarcopterygii. Fish scales...
- dentine-like
material called cosmine. The
upper surface is keratin. The
coelacanth has
modified cosmoid scales that lack
cosmine and are
thinner than true...
- a
mineralized tissue called cosmine, but in post-Devonian lungfishes, the
skull roof lies
beneath the skin and the
cosmine covering is lost. All modern...
- scaloids,
consisting of
lamellar bone
surrounded by
layers of
vascular bone,
cosmine (similar to dentin), and
external keratin. The
physical structure of tetrapodomorphs...
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supplied with
blood vessels,
followed by a
complex dentine-like
layer called cosmine with a
superficial outer coating of vitrodentine. The
upper surface is...
- its head were
covered in a thin
layer of spongy, bony
material called cosmine. This
layer contained canals that were
connected to
sensory cells deeper...
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large spiracular openings on top of the skull, with a
distinct down-folded
cosmine-covered
lamina of bone
present on the
tabular bone. This
indicated its...
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Psarolepis was made of
plates containing a
layer of porcelain-like
cosmine.
Because the
cosmine layer obscures the
suture lines of the skull, it is difficult...
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their bodies were
covered in
rhomboid scales that
possessed a
layer of
cosmine (a porous,
mineralised tissue). The
scales however lacked the peg-and-socket...
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Upper Devonian (Famennian) of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and a
report on the
cosmine-covered
osteolepiform fossils of the
Catskill Formation".
Journal of Vertebrate...
