File:Knightia eocaena Mass Mortality (f18294fb-155d-451f-678b-dfdeca4d4e3f).tif

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English: Knightia eocaena Mass Mortality
Photographer
English: NPS Photo
Title
English: Knightia eocaena Mass Mortality
Publisher
English: U.S. National Park Service
Description
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6 dark brown fish fossils on tan stones. The fish are strewn across the stone, some overlapping.

Knightia eocaena was a schooling freshwater herring. This specimen is from the sandwich beds where several mortality beds of adult fish are found. The fish are approximately 10 cm long. This fossil is in a private collection.

  • Keywords: fossil fish
Depicted place
English: Fossil Butte National Monument, Lincoln County, Wyoming
Date Taken on 16 July 2010
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English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
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English: Green River Formation Fossils

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