It's less than 2cm long, but this 400 million year old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolution
- Written by Alice Clement, Research Associate in the School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University
An artist's reconstruction of the ancient fish _Ligulalepis_. Brian Choo, Author providedPublished today, our new paper describes a spectacular 400 million-year-old 3D-preserved fossil fish, Ligulalepis.
The 3D anatomy of the fossilised Ligulalepis skull reveals previously unknown details of the pattern of dermal skull bones, the shape of the...