Fossil fish skeleton
Place Collected(Object)
: North America, USA, Wyoming, Lincoln County?, 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: ROMVP00939
Gallery Location:Reed Family Gallery of the Age of Mammals, Green River, Fish
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.
