Name: <em> Latimeria </em> <br>Cup
SKU: 901502-1
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Latimeria Cup

Latimeria
Cup

Caffè-Tè Cup (ceramic). The cup is illustrated twice – on front and back – with the same fossil animal and related scientifc information. That is why the cups are equally suitable for right-handers and left-handers! Moreover, they are educational and pedagogically applicable.

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SKU: 901502-1

Cup

Height: 10 cm
Diameter: 8.5 cm
Capacity: 300 ml
Weight: 335 g

PALAEOLOVE artwork and art wares are recognizable due to their scientifically accurate visualisation that is accompanied by sound, science-based information. Our products are designed in Switzerland and analogously & digitally handmade in Switzerland and other European countries under the guidance of experts, true to the motto: «Science meets Design»!

The abbreviation «MIO» (= million, after the German national standard DIN 5008) – occasionally found on our goods and product pages to indicate the geological age of fossil taxa – is equivalent to «MYA» (= million years ago).

Depicted Animal

Latimeria chalumnae SMITH, 1939
2 M

Common names: (English • Deutsch • Français • Español) - West Indian Ocean coelacanth or African coelacanth • Komoren-Quastenflosser • Cœlacanthe de l’Ouest de l’océan Indien • Celacanto de Comores o Comorense
Systematics: Latimeriidae, Actinistia = Coelacanthiformes, «Crossopterygii», Sarcopterygii, Osteichthyes
Habitat: marine, deep water; demersal

One (Comorian coelacanth, dark blue, discovered in 1938) of two endemic species (the second one is the Indonesian coelacanth, brown, described in 1999) of extant actinistian lobe-finned fishes found in depths of 150 to 700 m. Latimeria moves slowly by drifting or swimming and gives birth to live young. The degenerated lung / swim bladder is filled with fat. The Comorian coelacanth stays in caves during daylight and is caught outside at night.