Shell Specimen: Fish
“Shelling” is a fun for professional scientist and amateurs alike. A majority of the shells below are composed of the mineral aragonite CaCO3. Many of my modern or “recent” shells have fossil relatives in my Fossil Gallery. Below I have organized images and data of some of my sea shells.
Special thanks to Tina Petway, Lucy Clampet and Gary Kidder for giving me what I could not find.
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Chordata – Subphylum: Vertebrata – Clade: Teleostomi – Superclass: Osteichthyes
(Fish)
Fish Scales
Fish Scales
Fish Scales
Fish Jaw (missing teeth)
Fish Jaw (with teeth)
Fish Ear Bones
Fish Vertebrea
Fish Vertebrea
Data: Dance, S. Peter, Smithsonian Handbook: Shells, The photographic regognition guide to seashells of the world. A Dorling Kindersley Book.