image: Life reconstruction of the non-marine component of the Waterloo Farm biota. Hyneria udlezinye is shown together with the tetrapods Umzantsia amazana and Tutusius umlambo, the placoderms Groenlandaspis riniensis and Bothriolepis africana, the coelacanth Serenichthys kowiensis, the lungfish Isityumzi mlomomde, and a cyrtoctenid eurypterid. Painting by Maggie Newman, copyright R. W. Gess. view more
Credit: Gess, Ahlberg, 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
New predatory fish species which lived about 360 million years ago may have grown to over 2.5m long, according to analysis of South African fossils
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281333
Article Title: A high latitude Gondwanan species of the Late Devonian tristichopterid Hyneria (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii)
Author Countries: South Africa, Sweden
Funding: PEA: Wallenberg Scholarship (not numbered), from the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation. https://kaw.wallenberg.org PEA: ERC Advanced Grant ERC-2020-ADG 10101963 "Tetrapod Origin", from the European Research Council. https://erc.europa.eu/homepage RWG: Millennium Trust, South Africa (no number). https://www.mtrust.co.za RWG: GENUS (DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences), South Africa (no number). https://www.genus.africa RWG: NRF of South Africa (no number). https://www.nrf.ac.za The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
A high latitude Gondwanan species of the Late Devonian tristichopterid Hyneria (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii)
Article Publication Date
22-Feb-2023
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.