2" Oligocene Fossil Clupeoid Fish (Beksinskiella) - Poland

This is a 2" wide clupeoid fish fossil of the species Beksinskiella longimania (Heckel, 1850) preserved on a slab of stone. It comes out of the nannofossil biozone NP24 of the Krosno Formation Unit near Sobniów, Poland. Beautiful bone preservation on this specimen. There is a repaired crack through the fossil/rock.


Beksinskiella longimania is a new clupeoid genus from the Oligocene of Poland. A detailed publication can be found at the link below.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication

You can read more about the ichthyofaunal ecostratigraphy of the Oligocene-Early Miocene strata of the Polish Outer Carpathian basin, here.

http://www.asgp.pl