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| Vomeropsis triurus at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
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| Genus: | Vomeropsis Heckel, 1854 |
Vomeropsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived from the early to middle Eocene. [1]
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