New materials of caturoid fish discovered in China
Monday, February 4, 2013 - 09:00
in Earth & Climate
In a newly published articles, researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology describe new materials of caturoid fish—Gymnoichthys inopinatus, from the Middle Triassic Guanling Formation at the Dawazi Village, Luoping County, Yunnan Province, China. Gymnoichthys inopinatus is not only the first caturoid found in China, but also the earliest caturoid in the world, which is 40 million years earlier than the European and North American caturoids. Researchers re-identified its systematic position and reported in the latest issue of Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2013(1).