Chinese scientists discover ray-finned fish fossil 244 mln-year ago (2)

The research team of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led by Xu Guanghui, has discovered a new large-scale ancient fish fossil in Luoping, Yunnan. The latest study concludes that the fossil is a new species of the pteronisculus, ray-finned fishes, and is also the largest known backbone ray-finned fish predator in the Luoping biota 244 million years ago.

The largest individual fossil specimen of Zhang pteronisculus, a new pteronisculus, ray-finned fishes, is presented at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, May 19, 2021. (Photo: China News Service/Sun Zifa)