It was in this bed that Brocks found several beautiful fish of a species never seen before, and a family never found fossilized in Australia, freshwater smelt. "The discovery of the 15 million ...

including species like the Australian Grayling and the Australian Smelt. However, fossil records of these fish have been ...

a group of ray-finned freshwater fish that includes the Australian grayling and the Australian smelt. But until now, scientists had never discovered a fossilized Osmeriformes fish in the country ...

“Ferruaspis brocksi is the first fossil freshwater Australian Smelt to be found in Australia,” said study lead author Matthew R. McCurry from the Australian Museum and UNSW Sydney in a press release.

illustration: A school of Ferruaspis is chased by the extinct platypus, Obdurodon. Named after Professor Jochen J. Brocks from the Australian National University, who discovered several of the ...

A new species of prehistoric fish was found in iron-rich stone in southeastern Australia. Screengrab from Australia Museum's video What can fossils tell us about prehistoric life? The length of a ...

Loading The fish is the first fossil freshwater fish in the Osmeriformes group, which also includes the Australian smelt (Retropinna semoni) and Australian grayling (Prototroctes maraena), to be f ...