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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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Earliest known ophiuroids from high palaeolatitude, southern Gondwana, recovered from the Pragian to earliest Emsian Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group, Cape Supergroup) South Africa

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Articulated Krommaster spinosus.

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Credit: C. Reddy., CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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.


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