Oldest fossils found in Cordillera Betica mountain range
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 12:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Spanish researchers have found fossils of Ordovician conodonts dating to between 446 and 444 million years ago for the first time in the western Mediterranean. The discovery of these very primitive marine vertebrates has helped scientists to reconstruct the palaeogeography of the Cordillera Betica mountain range. Their study shows that the mountain system in the south of the Iberian Peninsula was located alongside the Alps at that time...