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Latest European coelacanth shows Gondwanan affinities

Published:2005-04-20 Issue:2 Volume:1 Page:176-177
ISSN:1744-9561
Container-title:Biology Letters
language:en
Short-container-title:Biol. Lett.

Author:

Cavin Lionel¹,Forey Peter L¹,Buffetaut Eric²,Tong Haiyan²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK

2. CNRS16 cour du Liégat, 75013 Paris, France

Abstract

The last European fossil occurrence of a coelacanth is from the Mid-Cretaceous of the English Chalk (Turonian, 90 million years ago). Here, we report the discovery of a coelacanth from Late Cretaceous non-marine rocks in southern France. It consists of a left angular bone showing structures that imply close phylogenetic affinities with some extinct Mawsoniidae. The closest relatives are otherwise known from Cretaceous continental deposits of southern continents and suggest that the dispersal of freshwater organisms from Africa to Europe occurred in the Late Cretaceous.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2004.0287

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