First finds of placoderm gar-fishes in Bulgaria, discovered in the dinosaur locality near the town of Tran
A team led by Asst. Vladimir Nikolov from the National Museum of Natural History at BAS (NMNHS-BAS) published the description of the first fossil remains of armoured gars in Bulgaria in the specialized scientific journal Cretaceous Research. The fossils are about 83 million years old and were discovered in the dinosaur locality near the town of Tran in the period 2020-2023. Co-authors of Asst. Vladimir Nikolov are Dr. Plamen Andreev (Research Center of Natural History and Culture, Qujing Normal University, China), geology student Georgi Voykov (Sofia University) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Docho Dochev (Sofia University). The studied fossil material includes 9 teeth and 3 scales of placoderm gars found in the Tran locality which are one of the few in Europe that are older than [...]