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n. - Primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering.

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  • To him, the ganoid was a huge perplexity, none the less because neither he nor the ganoid troubled Darwinians, but the more because it helped to reveal that...
  • Dense, equidimensional elements, such as teeth and ganoid fish scales, dominate the sandstone assemblage.
  • Two percent of the entire fauna are vertebrates, ganoid-scaled and bony fishes being the most common group.
  • Statistical comparisons were made among osteichthyans using ganoid scales, caudates using vertebrae, ornithischians using teeth, and testudinates using shell fragments.
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