Paleontologists Edwin Cadena, from the Universidad del Rosario, and Jorge Carrillo, from the University of Zurich in Switzerland, worked for nearly ten years to finalize the discovery of a species baptized with the name of
Strophodus rebecae
, which was found in the municipality of Zapatoca, department of Santander (Colombia).
"There are many individuals, fossils found at different points around the Zapatoca area, which together we are sure belong to the same species," Cadena explained.
Studies maintain that it lived 135 million years ago, measured between four and five meters and had teeth similar to dominoes, which were used to crush food, rather than to cut and tear as in the case of sharks today. sharp teeth.
This is the first record of a fish of the strophodus family in the southern hemisphere of the planet, known as gondwana.
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