Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the ray-finned fish brain - Nature

Nature research paper: Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the ray-finned fish brain

We thank D. Gelsthorpe and L. Loughtman for access to collections; R. Nagesan and R. Singer for assistance with extant material; L. Simonitis and K. Hall for providing comparative material of; A. Capobianco, J. Díaz-Cruz and C. Mauricio Peredo for providing feedback on an earlier version of this contribution; and R. Dearden for assisting with Blender. S.G. was supported by a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship .

This study includes data produced at the CTEES facility at University of Michigan, supported by the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and College of Literature, Science and the Arts.

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