The rivers of Australia, which once flowed across its now dry interior, used to host a range of bizarre animals -- including a sleek predatory lobe-finned fish with large fangs and bony scales. The newly described fossil fish discovered in remote fossil fields west of Alice Springs has been named Harajicadectes zhumini by palaeontologists.
The rivers of Australia, which once flowed across its now dry interior, used to host a range of bizarre animals -- including a sleek predatory lobe-finned fish with large fangs and bony scales.by an international team of researchers led by Flinders University palaeontologist Dr Brian Choo.
"We found this new form of lobe-finned fish in one of the most remote fossil sites in all of Australia, the Harajica Sandstone Member in the Northern Territory, almost 200km west of Alice Springs, dating from the Middle-Late Devonian roughly 380 million years old.sits in this group of fish as it appears to have convergently acquired a mosaic of specialised features characteristic of widely separate branches of the tetrapodomorph radiation.
The 2016 specimen has been transferred to the Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory in Darwin. A new stem-tetrapod fish from the Middle–Late Devonian of central AustraliaCitation for this article: Choo, B., Holland, T., Clement, A. M., King, B., Challands, T., Young, G., & Long, J. A. A new stem-tetrapod fish from the Middle–Sophisticated CT scanning of the cranium of an Australian fish fossil has given new insights to explain how fish first left the water to invade land about 370 million years ago. Palaeontologists ...
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