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Gavin Charles Young, Departmental Visitor, Materials Physics, Research School of Physics, Australian National University

A 380-million-year-old fossil ‘fish’ from Scotland has been discovered in Australia

3D printouts of the _Palaeospondylus australis_ holotype, enlarged x20. Carole Burrow

Queensland is renowned for its fossils of Australia’s largest back-boned animals – dinosaurs, of course, like the Jurassic Rhoetosaurus, the Cretaceous Wintonotitan, and other large sauropods.

However, our new paper published in the journal National Science Review documents the smallest vertebrate fossil animal described so far from the state.

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