Palaeospondylus
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Palaeospondylus ("early vertebra") is an extinct genus of fish described from fossils found in both the Achanarras slate quarry of Caithness, Scotland, and the Cravens Peak Beds of Queensland, Australia.
It lived during the Early and Middle Devonian epochs, around 400 to 390 million years ago.
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