On October 27, the reporter learned from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that the research team of the Institute found the largest piece of armored fish fossil materials collected from Qujing, Yunnan, the "Kingdom of Ancient Fish". True armored fish-roaming the fossils of scorpionfish, together with another newly discovered fossil, the latest research reveals that it has ventral gill holes (also called outer gill holes) like existing devil fishes, which is a useful tool for exploring armored fishes. Life habits and evolution provide important information.
The picture shows the corresponding author of the paper and associate researcher of the Institute of Paleospine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Gai Zhikun, on the afternoon of October 26, exhibiting two new fossil materials of roaming Hanyu in Beijing.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sun Zifa
Release time: 2021-10-28 08:53:06 【Editor: Li Jun】