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   ocr: - 23 Brazilian Fossil - Fishes THE SANTANA FORMATION, IN northeastern Brazil, is one of the richest fossil deposits in the world. These fishes lived 110 million years ago in a shallow inland sea. At that time, Africa and South America had only just drifted apart and were still located quite close to each other. These fossils were actually preserved with their stomach contents intact, enabling us to see exactly what the fishes last ate. Such details offer scientists an exceedingly rare opportunity to reconstruct the food chain of this community of extinct fishes. We know what preyed on what and ...