FOSSILS SPECIMEN: ACTINOPTERYGII (RAY_FINNED FISH)
Fossils are defined as any evidence of prehistoric life. There are two types of fossils: Body Fossils include remains of skeletal bones, shell, carapace, test and teeth. Trace Fossils are clues the organism existed such as foot prints, tracks, burrows and coprolites (fossil dung).
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Chordata – Superclass: Osteichthyes – Class Actinopterygii
(bony ray-finned fish)
Late Silurain to Holocene
Fossil Sawfish Tooth
Odontopristis numidus
Late/Upper Cretaceous (95 MYA)
Tegama Formation, Morocco
Scaphanorhyschus texanus
Late/Upper Cretaceous
70 million years old
Berkley County, South Carolina
Gar Fish Scales
Pleistocene (brown) and Recent (white)
Florida, United States
Fossil Fish Diplomystus dentatus
Eocene (~48 MYA)
Green River Formation, Lindgren Quarry, Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States
Fossil Fish Knightia eocaena
Eocene (~48 MYA)
Green River Formation, Warfield’s Quarry, Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States
Fossil Fish Knightia eocaena
Eocene (~48 MYA)
Green River Formation, Warfield’s Quarry, Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States
Fossil Fish Knightia eocaena
Eocene (~48 MYA)
Green River Formation, Warfield’s Quarry, Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States
Fossil Fish Knightia eocaena
Eocene (~48 MYA)
Green River Formation, Warfield’s Quarry, Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States
Fossil Fish Knightia eocaena
Eocene (~48 MYA)
Green River Formation, Warfield’s Quarry, Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States
Fossil Fish Vertebrate
Mesozoic to Cenozoic
United States