Go to Jurassic Park. Manitoba 390 million year old extinct fish was discovered

A hot, sunshine, on the day of July, pelionctologist Melina Jobins and his team for 390 million years old fossils of a extinct fish, Lunder, man, searching an old rock mine near man, once floated in a huge inland sea.

Jobins, a postdotoral Fellow in the Pelosed+ Lab in the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Manitoba, spreads a geological map on the hood of his rented car, to confirm which era of history they can expect to find fossils in the field, which is now part of the Canadian Priies.

“Orange is Orange Dewonian,” she describes another fossilist at Kiystin Brink, Manitoba University. The Davonian period is named as the age of fish, Jobins tell a CBC reporter.

It is the region, where in the 1990s, researchers at the University of Manitoba discovered some ancient fossils.

He was not sure what he found, but the jobs studied him, found some more fossils and felt that it was a new discovery – the body’s armor, one of the first fish to develop a jaw and teeth.

The fish was rebuilt by renovating the name of Jobbins LondonisIn the name of Elm Point Formation, it was found in the rock formation. His research was published in the version of the July Edition of Journal of Systematic Paliantology.

The remains of this fish are about 150 million years larger than the dinosaurs and only 1½ meters long, a large chinook salmon size.

“We are hoping that we can seek more of these fish more and more Placoderm, Elmo and his relatives,” he said.

Jobins indicated teeth, an eye socket and other characteristics of fossils in the collection of the University’s Geological Sciences Museum.

The fish contains armor made of dermal bone on the head and chest, but the rest of the skeleton is made of cartilage similar to sharks.

“This makes them a very important group to understand the origin of the bone and the early growth of the bone, as well as,” Jobins said.

“Also jaw, because it is one of the first fish to develop jaw in the first place, as well as teeth. They come in hand. So understand how it developed, how it developed, how we have something that we have today, which is at the second level of complexity.”

Jobins and his team are visiting more mines in this summer, finding more fossils and hoping to answer more questions – what the animal looked like, but what was the situation for the development of its atmosphere and these characteristics.

“What we existed at that time and how diverse it was … which is incredible.”

Manitoba is well known for its fossil records, most of its part is displayed at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Center in Morden, Man. The province’s Tyndal Stone has preserved fossils since the world’s largest Mosasore, Creteseous period of marine reptiles.

As partner Peliantologist Brink scrambled on the rocks, pointing to the fossils of corals and sponges and the relatives of the Starfish, he explained that Manitoba is a great place to find fossils because many different age of rock are preserved.

“We can see how life has changed through all these different time periods.”

Many of the rocks have been dug as mining “simply exposes all these fossils from an accident, which is actually great for us for fossilists,” Brink said.

On this day, they found a lot of fossils, including some they will use to teach students in the fall, but unfortunately, Londonis Was elusive. They will try again once again.

Nevertheless, Vergil Johnson, Reve of the Rural Municipality of Coldwell, who helped him reach the mines, was happy.

Johnson grew up here and spent a lot of time in mines.

He said, “When we were crawling out of here and swimming and going, we used to find all these small fossils, so it was really very clear that when you get experts out of here and show you how old they were and what they are,” he said.

“It is very exciting.”