Australia: The Land Where Time Began

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Fish-Tetrapod   

Nature 444, 199-202, 9 Nov 2006                                              

The discovery in the Western Australian Late Devonian Gogo Formation of the most complete remains of a fish called Gogonasus, shows that it had a number of the characteristics of early tetrapods, and at an age of about 380 million years it is the earliest known tetrapod-like fish so far discovered.

See Earliest Tetrapods, Origin from Marine Environment

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  1. Nature 444, 199-202, 9 Nov 2006  
    
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