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More than 380 million years ago, a sleek, air-breathing predatory fish patrolled the rivers of central Australia. Today, the sediments of those rivers are outcrops of red sandstone in the remote outback.is the first reasonably complete bony fish found from Devonian rocks in central Australia. It has also proven to be a most unusual animal.
Packed within red sandstone blocks on a remote hilltop were hundreds of fossil fishes. The vast majority of them were smallThere were also spines from acanthodians , the plates of phyllolepids and, most intriguingly, jaw fragments of a previously unknown tetrapodomorph.in 2016. Flinders University palaeontologists John Long , Brian Choo and Alice Clement with ANU palaeontologist Gavin Young .
This beautiful specimen demonstrated that all the isolated bits and pieces collected over the years belonged to a single new type of fish. It is now in the collections of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, serving as theis the biggest fish found in the Harajica rocks. Likely the top predator of those ancient rivers, its big mouth was lined with closely-packed sharp teeth alongside larger, widely spaced triangular fangs.
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