Crossword-Solution: HETEROCERCAL 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Heterocercal a. Having the vertebral column evidently continued into
the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one,
as in sharks.

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TAIL with unequal lobes (of fossil fish) 1 answer
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Agassiz has called “Heterocercal,” which have their tails unequally bilobate, like the recent shark and sturgeon, and the vertebral column running along the upper caudal lobe.
The Student’s Elements of Geology Sir Charles Lyell 2001
This so called heterocercal tail is only known to exist, as a permanent adult feature, in the sturgeons of to-day.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 2004
Then with all his force the captain drove the pole down; the aim was good, for the next instant there was a tremendous swirl in the water, the long, heterocercal tail, through which the creature's spine was continued to the end of the upper lobe, rose above the surface, and was brought down with a tremendous blow which raised a shower, and at the same time Captain Bradleigh's arms were dragged lower and lower, till he loosened his hold, and the pole of the boat-hook disappeared.
Jack at Sea George Manville Fenn 2007
They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebræ convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Various 2009
There's trilobites in Bala bed, Product as in coal shale, There's mony a fish in Auld, Auld Red, Wi' heterocercal tail; There's no a Mezozoic rock Hauds trilobites within, There's mony a Palæozoic block Whar trilobites are seen.
Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Various 2010