<I>Amphistium</i> (photograph) (IMAGE)

Field Museum

<I>Amphistium</i> (photograph)

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This fossil of Amphistium is in the collections of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona, Italy. For more than a century, it has been misclassified as a symmetrical fish.

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Photo by M. Friedman, courtesy of The Field Museum.

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