Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni is published in Nature

4 January 2017 · global · Prince Albert

Michael Coates of the University of Chicago and colleagues: the brain, cranial nerves, nostrils and inner ear are those of a chimaera, not a shark. It fixed where chimaeras branch off the jawed-vertebrate tree - one of the four fundamental divisions of modern vertebrate life. A farmer on a Karoo sheep farm, dead eighteen years, is the author of the specimen.

Who is on record here

• 1923 Roy Don Oosthuizen

Everyone the record names at this occasion. Who stood together is the clearest surviving evidence of which families were close to which, if you know of others who were here, this is the page they belong on.

Sources

• Coates et al., "A symmoriiform chondrichthyan braincase and the origin of chimaeroid fishes", Nature, 4 January 2017 doi:10.1038/nature20806

Told in

• subject Roy Oosthuizen's fossil