Brittle star fossils found in South Africa are over 410 million years old, the oldest known examples who lived at high latitude
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292636
Article Title: Earliest known ophiuroids from high palaeolatitude, southern Gondwana, recovered from the Pragian to earliest Emsian Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group, Cape Supergroup) South Africa
Author Countries: South Africa, Luxembourg
Funding: RWG: Millennium Trust, South Africa (no number). https://www.mtrust.co.za RWG and CR: 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
Earliest known ophiuroids from high palaeolatitude, southern Gondwana, recovered from the Pragian to earliest Emsian Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group, Cape Supergroup) South Africa
Article Publication Date
25-Oct-2023
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.