Eusthenopteron

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Eusthenopteron
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Scientific name
Eusthenopteron
Period(s) Late Devonian
Main appearances

Name in other languages
 ユーステノプテロン
 新翼鱼
 Eusthénoptéron
 Eustenopteron
 Eustenottero
 Эустеноптерон
 에우스테놉테론
 新翼魚
 Eusthénoptéron
 Eustenopteron
 Eusthenopteron
 Eusthenopteron

The Eusthenopteron is a stand-alone fossil in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Donating to the museum

In New Horizons

When the player donates to Blathers or selects "Tell me about this!" in New Horizons, he will provide the following information about the fossil:

"The eusthenopteron is famous for being the link between fish and land animals long before dinosaurs. It seems to have had strong fins capable of pulling it around areas where the water was shallow. When most creatures lived in the sea... they dreamed of land. If not for them, we mightn't be here today! Imagine if we'd not left the oceans... How might fashion and music be different in an aquatic world? How would we resolve differences? Perhaps some sort of ink-squirting contest of champions?"

The Eusthenopteron can be found in the first room of the fossil exhibit in the museum.

As an item

Eusthenopteron

Eusthenopteron
Interactable No
Sell price  2,000 Bells
Colors
 
Brown
 
Brown
Size 1.0 x 1.0


Real-world information

Eusthenopteron was a sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) from the Late Devonian. It is a tetrapodomorph, making it more closely related to modern tetrapods (land vertebrates) than to modern lobe-finned fishes like lungfishes and coelacanths. While very much aquatic (unlike later tetrapodomorphs like Acanthostega), it nevertheless exhibits anatomical features exclusive to tetrapodomorphs (including tetrapods), including choana, or internal nostrils, and possibly bone marrow.

More information on this topic is available at Wikipedia.