Largest Silurian fish illuminates the origin of osteichthyan characters - Nature New findings from articulated head and trunk material of Megamastax amblyodus yield previously unseen morphological details of a Silurian stem osteichthyan.

Big fish news coming out in @nature.com today from the IVPP crew… first, more of the late Silurian osteichthyan #Megamastax from Yunnan, AND #Eosteus from the early Silurian of Chongqing, the world's earliest osteichthyan!

1. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PREHISTORIC FISH, from the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTxc... (bigger ones included there)🐟 This chart is now also avalable for prints and more at Redbubble/people/mariolanzas 🐟 fishes of all clades #placodermi #paleoart #fish #paleontology #stethacanthus #megamastax #sizechart #naturalhistory