Marine reptiles were among
the first vertebrate fossils known to science and were key to the development of the theory of evolution.
Not exact matches
This is the story of one of the winners, a small, shell - crushing predatory fish called Fouldenia, which
first appears in the
fossil record a mere 11 million years after an extinction that wiped out more than 90 percent of the planet's
vertebrate species.
The newly described species (artist's representation shown), which lived between 220 million and 230 million years ago, was one of the largest in a group of amphibians known as metoposaurs and is the
first known in this region from well - preserved
fossils, the researchers report online today in the Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology.