Fossil of newly discovered species found in Spain
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 10:29
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the '80s, researchers found the first fossils of Cloudina in Spain, a small fossil of tubular appearance and one of the first animals that developed an external skeleton between 550 and 543 million years ago. Now palaeontologists have discovered a new species, Cloudina carinata, the fossil of which has preserved its 3-D shape.