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249-Million-Year-Old Fish
November 5 , 2025
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- Sciences have identified a new species of coelacanth from early Triassic deposits in China’s Anhui province.
- It is an ancient lineage of lobe-finned fishes.
- It was lived around 249 million years ago during the Smithian age of the Early Triassic.
- This is the first record of the genus Whiteia in Asia.
- Earlier “Whiteia” fossils had been found in Madagascar, South Africa, Canada, and Greenland, but never in Asia.
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