Tetsuto Miyashita and Rob Gess Standing on the Fossil Site Neaer Makhanda - February 2016 (IMAGE)

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Tetsuto Miyashita and Rob Gess Standing on the Fossil Site Neaer Makhanda - February 2016

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Tetsuto Miyashita (right) stands with researcher Rob Gess in February 2016 atop the shale locality in Makhanda, South Africa that has yielded fossils of the 360 million-year-old lamprey, Priscomyzon. Many other invertebrate and plant fossils have been found at this site. These have helped define the coastal habitat in which Priscomyzon lived.

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Tetsuto Miyashita

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