Tag Archive for 'Jawless vertebrate'

Life restoration of Asioaspis brachyotus. Image credit: Zhang et al., doi: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260113.

Fossil Armored Fish from China Bridges Primitive and Advanced Jawless Lineages

Oct 12, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of polybranchiaspiform galeaspid fish from the Early Devonian of Yunnan, China. Life restoration...

Life reconstruction of the lamprey Yanliaomyzon from the Jurassic Yanliao Biota, China. Image credit: Nice Vistudio / Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Large Flesh-Eating Lampreys Lived in Jurassic Oceans

Nov 3, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in China have unearthed and examined the superbly preserved fossilized remains of two lamprey species from the Jurassic Yanliao Biota....