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Friday, June 21, 2019
Meet Australia's newest ichthyodectiform - Dugaldia emmilta Published this month in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. See https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2019.1576049?af=R&journalCode=ujvp20for more details. Summary:Ichthyodectiformes are known as bull-dog fishes cause of their upwards turned mouth. Highly predatory from the Mesozoic found in localitites worldwide. These fishes became extinct at the K-T boundary. Additional material from kronosaurus korner allowed for the updated description.
Phylogenetics indicate Dugaldia sits basal to the ichthyodectidae Jaw mechanics indicate that Dugaldia could enlarge its gape like the Sarcastic fringehead fish...
Rod is part of The geological team at Anglo Gold Ashanti. He is a graduate of the Television Presenting Course at Tv Pro Global, has a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Natural History, Culture and Museum Studies from Macquarie University, along with a Bachelor of Science honours in Zoology from The University of Queensland, and currently working on a Masters of Museum Studies.
Since graduating, Rod has presented across the world at various palaeontological conferences, and has a few peer reviewed science articles in the process of being published.
Rod enjoys all aspects of outdoor life – the more action packed the better.
His current projects include researching Australian Mesozoic Fishes and acid etching of fossil marine limestones from North Queensland.