Fossil found on Welsh beach ends 'confusion' over 200-million-year-old fish teeth

An amateur fossil hunter's discovery of a 200-million-year-old fish jawbone has helped solve two centuries of "confusion" over the origins of fossils across Europe, palaeontologists say.
Fossilised teeth found in rock around the Bristol Channel, along with other examples around Europe, had previously been grouped together as one type of large ancient fish called Severnichthys.
But the bone found on the Welsh side of the channel by Jonathan Bow turned out to be the first found there to belong to a different type.
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