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Robert Gess finds the nodule in a drawer and puts it through a CT scanner

2013 · local · Prince Albert

It had been in Cape Town since the 1980s, filed under sharks. Gess was looking for Devonian shark fossils. The scans showed the braincase of something that was not a shark.

Sources

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

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subject Roy Oosthuizen's fossil