Hong Kong'’s first identified dinosaur-era vertebrate

Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 07:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A ~147 million-year-old Jurassic-aged osteoglossoid osteoglossomorph fish Paralycoptera from outcrops at Lai Chi Chong has been described. This fossil represents the first dinosaur-era fish - as well as vertebrate - from Hong Kong to be identified.

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