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Southern Methodist University: Giant Bottom-Dwelling Fish Fossils in Northeast Texas
November 17, 2021
DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 17 (TNSJou) -- Southern Methodist University issued the following news:

SMU paleontologists have helped in the analysis of fossils from an ancient fish found in Texas.

Isolated bones from a fish called a mawsoniid coelacanth were found in the Cenomanian Woodbine Formation in northeast Texas. Collector and Texan Bradley Carter, who made the discovery, donated the bones to SMU's Shuler Museum of Paleontology to have them examined.

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