Fish
Geography: USA, Wyoming: Kemmerer
Dimensions:length=70; width=45; height=3 cm
Taxonomy
- Attributes
- Objects
- Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
- Phylum:
Chordata
- Class:
Osteichthyes
- Order:
Osteoglossiformes
- Family:
Osteoglossidae
- Genus:
Phareodus
- SpecificEpithet:
testis
Object number: 939
DescriptionThis fish is distantly related to the living goldeye and mooneye, and is just one kind of the beautifully preserved fish skeletons found in the 50 million year old deposits of the Green River Formation of Wyoming and adjacent states.