Oldest-known black carp found in Mongolian plateau
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 14:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Dr. Pingfu Chen, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Gloria Arratia at the Biodiversity Research Center of the University of Kansas, described an oldest-known black carp, Mylopharyngodon wui, sp. nov., a completely preserved right pharyngeal bone with teeth from a middle Miocene deposit of the Tairum Nor area of Suniteyou Qi (Banner), Inner Mongolia, China.
