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- noun Plural form of
ratfish .
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You mean chimaeras like crocoducks, or THE Chimaera, daughter of Typhon and Echidna, and not ratfishes, lichens, or grafted fruit trees.
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The fossil was found in an iniopterygian, an extinct ancestor of modern ratfishes (see albino ratfish picture), which are distant relatives of sharks and rays.
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Iniopterygians are extinct relatives of modern ratfishes, also known as ghost sharks.
unknown title 2009
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First, most specimens of the early fish, known as an iniopterygian and distantly related to modern sharks and ratfishes, are squashed flat and reveal no details of skull anatomy.
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It similarly sheds light on the extinct relatives of modern ratfishes, also known as "ghost sharks" or chimaeras.
Livescience.com 2009
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Iniopterygians are extinct relatives of modern ratfishes, also known as "ghost sharks" or chimaeras.
unknown title 2009
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Iniopterygians are extinct relatives of modern ratfishes, also known as ghost sharks.
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