On October 21, the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a news release that Xu Guanghui, a researcher at the Institute, recently found the world's oldest known fossil of wartfish in Luoping, Yunnan, named "Yunnan Storm Fish". It is 34 cm long and is the largest known carnivorous basal stem newfin fish in the Ropin biota 244 million years ago (Middle Triassic Anni). The results are of great significance for understanding the phylogenetic relationships, radiation evolution and ecological adaptation of the main taxa of early neofin fish.
