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Sacabambaspis
“ Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ”
– Henry David Thoreau
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Infraphylum: Agnatha
Class: †Pteraspidomorphi
Family: †Sacabambaspidae
Genus: †Sacabambaspis
Species: †Sacabambaspis janvieri
Descendant: Sacabambaspidae
Named by: Gagnier, Blieck & Rodrigo
Year Published: 1986
Size: 27 cm (10+3⁄4 inches) in length
Lifespan: 30 years
Activity: Cathemeral 🌅🌃
Thermoregulate: Ectotherm
Type: Jawless Fishes (†Pteraspidomorphs)
Title:
Sacabamba's Fish
Cutest Fish
Most Popular Armored Fish
Pantheon: Terran/Gaian
Time Period: Ordovician (Dapingian-Sandbian)
Alignment: Passive
Threat Level: ★
Diet: Filter Feeder 🦠
Elements: Water 🌊
Inflicts: n/a
Weaknesses: Electric ⚡, Leaf 🌿
Casualties: n/a
Based On: itself
Conservation Status: Extinct (EX) – IUCN Red List
Sacabamabaspis janvieri is an extinct genus of jawless fish that lived in the Ordovician period. It is the best known arandaspid with many specimens and popular in arts and on Twitter as memes worldwide from Japan to international.
An extinct genus of fish from the early Paleozoic called the Sacabambaspis has recently gone viral on social media in Japan, with memes and even art and merch being made based on it. But what made this cryptic fish become an endless source of memes and art among Japanese users until foreigners take over as memes.
This animal was introduced or mentioned in The Last Stormtroopers, Historya Davvun, Seven Code Talkers, No Way to Seaway, Weather Dragons, Project Daejeon, Two Lights, Worldcraft, Equation, and Rescris as part of Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, Monster Hunter series, and Assassin's Creed series sequels.
Sacabambaspis is named after the village of Sacabamba, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia, where the first fossils of the genus were found.
Sacabambaspis was approximately 25 centimetres (9.8 in) in length. The body shape of Sacabambaspis vaguely resembled that of a tadpole with an oversized head, flat body, wriggling tail, and lack of fins. It had characteristic, frontally positioned eyes, like car head lamps.
Sacabambaspis had a head shield made from a large upper (dorsal) plate that rose to a slight ridge in the midline, and a deep curved lower (ventral) plate, this headshield is ornamented with characteristic oak-leaf shaped or tear-drop shaped tubercles. Also it had narrow branchial plates which link these two along the sides, and cover the gill area. The eyes were far forward and between them are possibly two small nostrils and they, which are surrounded by what is thought to be endoskeletal bone, and putative nostrils, are found at the extreme anterior of the head, one of the diagnostic features of the arandaspids. The rest of the body was covered by long, strap-like scales behind the head shield.
The tail consists of relatively large dorsal and ventral webs and an elongated notochordal lobe, the posterior end of which is bordered by a small fin web. This tail structure clearly differs from that of heterostracans, which are currently grouped with arandaspids and astraspids.
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Although it had no jaws, the mouth of Sacabambaspis janvieri was lined with nearly 60 rows of small bony oral plates which were probably movable in order to provide more efficient suction-action through expansion and contraction of the oral cavity and pharynx.
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Sacabambaspis lived in shallow waters on the continental margins of Gondwana.
Movement Pattern: Random
Individual Type: Solo
Population Trend: Stable
Population: none
Locomotion: Aquatic
Habitat: Warm Littoral; Cold Littoral; Warm Intertidal; Cold Intertidal; Kelp Forest; Coral Reef; Barrier Reef; Guyot; Neritic Zone (Warm); Neritic Zone (Cold); Pelagic Zone (Warm); Pelagic Zone (Cold); Benthic Zone.
Earth:
Extinct: Angola; Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; India; South Africa; Venezuela
Berbania/Hirawhassa:
Extant & Introduced: Dinojerulla; Zowhringe
Reinachos/Ityosel:
Extant & Introduced: Ascunsia; Nueva Joaquin
Thatrollwa: none
Sawintir: none
Agarathos: none
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Terran/Gaian
n/a
Berbanian/Hirawhassan
n/a
Reinachos/Ityoselese
n/a
Delphian/Thatrollwan
n/a
Sawintiran
n/a
Jotunheim
n/a
Terran/Gaian
n/a
Berbanian/Hirawhassan
n/a
Reinachos/Ityoselese
n/a
Delphian/Thatrollwan
n/a
Sawintiran
n/a
Jotunheim
n/a
See also: none
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