A new fossil of fish makes up 418 million carry the origin of the modern vertebrates years
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April 1st, 2009
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The discovery of an intact fossil of bony fish by Chinese scientists could have the origin of the modern vertebrates carried up that one considers as being the Devonian age to the previous period (the Silurian).
In the beginning of the month of March 2008, Zhu Min, a scientist of the Institute of Paleontology of the vertebrates and dependent Paléoanthropologie of the Academy of the Sciences of China, and his team of research, discovered in Qujin, in the of the Yunnan province (southwest), a bony fish fossils in limestones of dating 418 million years. This fossil is the most complete form, or gnathostome vertebrate endowed with an articulate jaw, discovered in the world.
Zhu Min and his team Thursday published an article on this discovery in the British magazine "Nature."
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