Brittle star fossils found in South Africa are over 410 million years old, the oldest known examples who lived at high latitude

Brittle star fossils found in South Africa are over 410 million years old, the oldest known examples who lived at high latitude

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292636

Article Title: Earliest known ophiuroids from high palaeolatitude, southern Gondwana, recovered from the Pragian to earliest Emsian Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group, Cape Supergroup) South Africa

Author Countries: South Africa, Luxembourg

Funding: RWG: Millennium Trust, South Africa (no number). https://www.mtrust.co.za RWG and CR: GENUS (DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences), South Africa (no number). https://www.genus.africa RWG: NRF of South Africa (no number). https://www.nrf.ac.za The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0292636

Earliest known ophiuroids from high palaeolatitude, southern Gondwana, recovered from the Pragian to earliest Emsian Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group, Cape Supergroup) South Africa

25-Oct-2023

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.