Sentences with phrase «earliest coelacanth»
Various specimens of Africa's earliest coelacanth have been found in a 360 million year - old fossil estuary near Grahamstown, in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
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«Africa's earliest known coelacanth found in Eastern Cape: More than 30 complete specimens of the new fossil species, Serenichthys kowiensis, were collected.»
«This earliest known record of a coelacanth nursery foreshadows a much younger counterpart, known from the 300 million year old Mazon Creek beds of Illinois in the United States,» says Gess.
The new species gives important additional information on the early evolution of coelacanths.
A new Early Cretaceous coelacanth from Texas.