Close-up showing the skin and scales of a Colobodus sp. bony fish fossil found in Moselle, France. The fossil measures 35 centimetres long and dates from 240 million years ago in the Middle Triassic. Collection Jean-Philippe et Francois-Xavier Blouet, paleontologists.

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