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Paleontologists seek to rehome Australia's largest intact fish fossil 'Jeppy'

Paleontologist Paul Stumkat prepares Jeppy in his workshop. (Supplied: Nathan Morris)

About 110 million years ago, a formidable armoured fish called the Richmondichthys sweeti roamed Australia's inland Eromanga Sea. 

In 2014, palaeontologists digging in the renowned fossil hotspot of Richmond, north-west Queensland, discovered the largest, most intact Richmondichthys fossil found in the country to date.

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