7.3" Fossil Fish Mortality Plate With Eight Knightia - Wyoming

This is a 7.3" plate of fossil fish (Knightia) from the Green River Formation of Wyoming. They are nicely detailed and prepared with bone structure, fins and scales visible. This plate contains eight fish, the longest is approximately 2" long.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

50 million years ago, in the Eocene epoch, 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
Knightia eocaena
LOCATION
Kemmerer, Wyoming
FORMATION
Green River Formation
SIZE
7.3 x 6.8"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#121327
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