Paleo-Aquarium

[Oddball]

Folks!!! Oddballer has opened a thread to comment/critique this presentation. I'd like to leave this thread closed. I intend on adding to this thread and think members will enjoy it more if they don't have to scroll past posts without pics. I hope you understand. If not, let me know in Oddballer's thread.


Paleo-Aquarium Thread Discussion...

 

[Death Pony]

This is a cool thread!!! Where do you get all of these fossils? This is too cool to see how far back gar and arowana existed. I kinda wish some of those armored fish were still around.

 

[Oddball]

Found a few more today. Plus, I think I know where my 125 million y/o aro fossil is. It's under a gar fossil that I'm going to get to maybe tonight.

Anywho, first up is a needlefish called Belone sp. It's from the Miocene deposits of Fiume Marecchia, Italy. His un-ID'd last meal is in his stomach. It appears to be an elver.

 

[Oddball]

Next is a real oldie. This is a body shield of Coccosteus orvikni. He's from the Upper Devonian of Voronej USSR. The other pic is of a notochord support the fish used before the evolution of vertebrae.

 

[Oddball]

Here's a young 'bass' called Asineops squamifrons from the Eocene deposits of the Green River Basin in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

 

[Oddball]

Also from Wyoming is this large "mass-mortality" slab that consists of a few thousand Knightia sp. (alta?). They're in an ash (volcanic) layer where the whole school died during a geological event. I've also included a single specimen closeup.

 

[Oddball]

Here are a couple of crayfish just to change things up a bit. The first is a dual specimen piece consisting of Pseudacastacus hakelensis (crayfish) and a young flying fish called Exocoetoides sp. They're from the upper Cretaceous of Hakel, Byblos, Lebanon.

 

[Oddball]

The other cray is possibly Cancrinos sp. from the Jurassic formations of Solnhofen, Germany.

 

[Oddball]

Here we have 2 pieces from the same species. In the red circle is a fang and jaw from a tusked herring called Enchodus sp. of the cretaceous of Morocco. The other piece is a series of vertebrae from the same species but, a different formation.

 

[Oddball]

Next is a hard-to-find group of shark vertebrae I found in a cement factory in central Florida. The area dates to the Miocene.