Spectacular fossil discovery: 150 million-year-old shark was one of the largest of its time

ScienceDaily
Jan 14, 2021, 11:19 am39 pts
A team led by Sebastian Stumpf from the University of Vienna describes an well-preserved skeleton of the ancient shark Asteracanthus. This rare fossil find comes from the famous Solnhofen limestones in Bavaria, which was formed in a tropical-subtropical lagoon landscape during the Late Jurassic, about 150…

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