The Chongqing fish fossil depository is world’s only early Silurian Lagerstätte which preserves complete, head-to-tail jawed fishes, providing a peerless chance to peek into the proliferating ...
While these fish, the first true jawed fish, reached no great size during the Silurian, they were on their way to becoming one of the planet's top predators. Creepy-crawlies also began to appear ...
as it spawned a remarkable variety of fish. The most formidable of them were the armored placoderms, a group that first appeared during the Silurian with powerful jaws lined with bladelike plates ...
I would like him to visit more of Scotland's rich fossil heritage and travel back in time, yet again — perhaps to the Ordovician trilobites of Girvan, the Silurian fishes of Lesmahagow ...