A lamprey from the Cretaceous Jehol biota of China
@article{Chang2006ALF, title={A lamprey from the Cretaceous Jehol biota of China}, author={Mee-mann Chang and Jiangyong Zhang and Desui Miao}, journal={Nature}, year={2006}, volume={441}, pages={972-974} }
Widespread nowadays in freshwater and coastal seas of the cold and temporal zones, lampreys are a jawless vertebrate group that has been in existence for more than 300 million years but left a meagre fossil record. Only two fossil lamprey species, namely Mayomyzon pieckoensis and Hardistiella montanensis, have been recognized with certainty from North American Carboniferous marine deposits. Here we report a freshwater lamprey from the Early Cretaceous epoch (about 125 million years ago) of… CONTINUE READING
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