Fossil found on Welsh beach ends 'confusion' over 200-million-year-old fish teeth
"I was super excited because I thought it was going to be a miniature crocodile, something brand new," he said. For many years he had no idea what it was as experts were unsure, but in 2022 University of Bristol lead researcher Jacob Quinn came to see Bow's collection and went on to research the jaw. While a fish jaw was not what Bow had hoped for, he said "it felt good" to have been part of the team that had "contributed to science".
- ▪"I was super excited because I thought it was going to be a miniature crocodile, something brand new," he said.
- ▪For many years he had no idea what it was as experts were unsure, but in 2022 University of Bristol lead researcher Jacob Quinn came to see Bow's collection and went on to research the jaw.
- ▪While a fish jaw was not what Bow had hoped for, he said "it felt good" to have been part of the team that had "contributed to science".
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Fossil found on Welsh beach ends 'confusion' over 200-million-year-old fish teethImage source, Amgueddfa CymruImage caption, Jonathan Bow, pictured with his son at Lavernock, says he was happy to have "contributed to science"ByPaul Pigott, BBC Wales and Adam Hale, BBC WalesPublished1 hour agoAn amateur fossil hunter's discovery of a 200-million-year-old fish jawbone has helped solve two centuries of "confusion" over the origins of fossils across Europe, palaeontologists say.Fossilised teeth found in rock around the Bristol Channel, along with other examples around Europe, had previously been grouped together as one type of large ancient fish called Severnichthys.But the bone found on the Welsh side of the channel by Jonathan Bow turned out to be the first found there to belong to a…
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