Examples Ghost lineage
a selection of gaps within fossil record of animals having hard body parts. other notable examples chronoperates , protanguilla
when looking @ extinct organisms, there groups of organisms (or lineages) have gaps in fossil records. these organisms or species may closely related 1 another, there no traces in fossil records or sediment beds might shed light on origins. classic example coelacanth, type of fish related lungfishes , primitive tetrapods. seems coelacanths have been around past 80 million years, have failed leave fossils at. reason environment, deep water near volcanic islands; therefore, these sediments hard to, giving these coelacanths 80 million year gap or ghost lineage. ghost lineage of averostran theropods, ghost lineage reduced considerably discovery of tachiraptor.
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