Paleo-Aquarium

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What I thought was a "ho-hum" plate became a very rare aspiration specimen after cleaning. An aspiration specimen shows a predator/prey pair dieing in the act of eating. The larger Diplomystus dentatus choked to death trying to eat a too-large Knightia sp.

 

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Paddlefish fossils are difficult to find due to the fish being cartilageous. Here's a rostrum and denticles of Crossopholis sp. A possible ancestor to Polyodon.

 

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Here's a skull and another pair of lower jaws of Cimolichthys. A predator from the Niobrara Chalk Beds of Kansas. Upper Cretaceous Period.

 

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Here's a jaw and giant tooth from a sabertoothed herring named Enchodus sp. from N. Africa.

 

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Haven't IDd this guy yet. This fish jaw is from the Cretaceous period formations of N. Africa.

 

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This is a tail from a Gillicus sp. from the chalkbeds of Kansas.

 

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This one is only a few million years old. It's a Salmonoides skull found in a concretion during a fossil crab field trip. From British Columbia.

 

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Here are a few specimen tooth batteries from shell crushing species like sheepsheads, etc.

 

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Awesome & Inspiring!

 

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Here's a pretty cool plate of vertebrae, bones, fin rays, etc. of Xiphactinus audax from Kansas.