由中科院院士张弥曼领衔的中美古生物学家团队在中国柴达木盆地上新世湖相沉积物中发现一种骨骼超常粗大的鱼化石——伍氏献文鱼。伍氏献文鱼属鲤科裂腹鱼亚科,极为奇特的是它全身遍布超常粗大的骨骼,几乎没有多少空间可供肌肉生长,这在现代鱼类中是闻所未闻的,在化石记录上也仅在地中海北部沿岸发现过一例。 A team of Chinese and American paleontologists, led by Academician Zhang Miman of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered an extremely skeletal fish fossil, the Xenophone, in the Xinshuhu phase sediments in the Qaidam Basin, China. It is extremely peculiar that its entire body is covered with unusually thick bones, and there is scarcely any space for muscle growth, which is unheard of in modern fishes. On fossil records Only one was found on the northern coast of the Mediterranean.