11.7" Tall Clock With Cockerellites Fish Fossil - Wyoming

This is a really cool clock made out of a 11.7" slab of shale containing a nicely preserved, 4.8" long Cockerellites (Priscacara) liops fossil fish. The fish is in its natural position in an unbroken slab of shale which has been shaped, backed with wood for hanging and had a working clock mechanism installed.

This fish was quarried from the Eocene aged (45-50 million year old) Green River Formation near Kemmerer, Wyoming.

50 million years ago, in the Eocene, these fish thrived in Fossil Lake, which was fed by the Uinta and Rocky Mountain highlands. The anoxic conditions at the bottom of Fossil Lake slowed bacterial decomposition, prevented scavengers from disturbing corpses and, most interestingly, suffocated creatures that ventured into the oxygen-starved aquatic layer. The result is a miraculous exhibition of Eocene biota: a subtropical aquatic community within sycamore forests, teeming with creatures such as freshwater stingrays, dog-sized horses, menacing alligators, early flying bats, and one of the first primates.

A view of one of the commercial quarries where fossils from the Green River Formation are collected.
A view of one of the commercial quarries where fossils from the Green River Formation are collected.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Cockerellites (Priscacara) liops
LOCATION
Kemmerer, Wyoming
FORMATION
Green River Formation
SIZE
Fish 4.8", Clock 11.7 x 8.3"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#114320
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