Waking Up to the Dawn of Vertebrates

Discovery of the earliest fossil fish pushes back the origin of vertebrates to the Cambrian explosion.

Shu, D.-G. . . . S.C. Morris, et al. Lower Cambrian vertebrates from south China. Nature 402(Nov. 4):42.

Janvier, P. 1999. Catching the first fish. Nature 402(Nov. 4):21.

Philippe Janvier
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Laboratoire de Paléontologie
8 rue Buffon
75005, Paris
France

S. Conway Morris
University of Cambridge
Department of Earth Sciences
Cambridge CB2 3EQ
United Kingdom

Degan Shu
Northwest University
Early Life Institute
Department of Geology
Xi’an, 710069
People’s Republic of China

M. Paul Smith
University of Birmingham
School of Earth Sciences
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
United Kingdom

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 19, November 6, 1999, p. 292. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.