PERTH: The discovery of 100 million-year-old fossils in outback Queensland has shed new light on creatures from Australia’s ancient inland sea.
The skull of a giant predator fish called cooyoo, which revealed for the first time its formidable teeth, was unearthed last month at a farm near Julia Creek in the state’s north-west by paleontologist Timothy Holland.
This was followed weeks later by another remarkable find, a fossilised clam containing up to 30 small fish Holland says rate as the best preserved specimens from the ancient sea that existed when Australia and Antarctica were one continent.
