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400 million-year-old Australian fossil identified as link to first bony fishes
Topic Started: Jun 1 2018, 06:09 AM (190 Views)
Sceynyos-yos
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http://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2018/05/31/fossil-link-oldest-fish-life-earth/
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Interesting.
Discontinued projects:
The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday)
The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents)



All Expansions (my attempt at expanding the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet aka C.M. Kosemen, started June 6, 2018)
Anthropozoic (my attempt at expanding the universe of Man After Man and also a re-imagining of it, coming 2019 or 2020)
New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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Interesting find. Though at 400 million years old, it would not be the oldest bony fish known. That would be a 419 million year old fish called Guiyo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiyu_oneiros
Still significant though in being an example of a fossil with such basal features, telling us more about how the bony fishes started out.
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