The British newspaper “Daily Mail” reported that the fossils were discovered this month in Liuping, east of China’s Yunnan Province.
She explained that what was found is the first specimens of an extinct bony fish found outside Europe.
It was previously believed that this fish lives only in what is now southern Switzerland and northern Italy.
The specimens that were found are distinguished by their presence of small, deadly teeth and a sharp snout.
Scientists said that the fishPeltoperleidus” that was found in China lived 244 million years ago, indicating that the fossils previously discovered in Europe lived 242 million years ago.
Peltoperleidus was a predatory fish that lived during the Ladinian period, and it had a lower jaw hanging just below the skull, so that it could open its mouth wide, allowing it to capture large prey.
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