A new species of marine fish from 408 million years ago discovered in Teruel
Monday, June 3, 2013 - 18:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
This is Machaeracanthus goujeti. Researchers from the University of Valencia and the Natural History Museum of Berlin have studied the fossilised remains of scales and bones found in Teruel and the south of Zaragoza, ascertaining that they belong to a new fish species called Machaeracanthus goujeti that lived in that area of the peninsula during the Devonian period. The fossils are part of the collection housed in the Palaeontology Museum of Zaragoza.