Discovery of an unusually intact and ancient fossil fish provides further evidence that the search for modern vertebrate origins requires breaking out of the Devonian and into the preceding period.
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Coates, M. Beyond the Age of Fishes. Nature 458, 413–414 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/458413a
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