Knightia Fish Plaque - Mutiple Specimens

Plaque
15"/38cm wide
28"/71cm height

Largest Fish
4.5"/11.5cm long

Weight
5Kg

Description

Superb Multi-specimen Knightia Fish plaque, with extreme detail to the fishes vertebra and bone tissue. The fins, scales, and the head of the fish, also shows distinct detail and good preservation

Fish plaques of this quality are declining more and more every year, on the fossil sites/ regions , and in the Fossil trade

Genus

Knightia Alta Fossil Fish sp.

Other Names

Herring

Geological Age

Tertiary Period [Paleogene], Eocene Epoch [50 mya]

Location

Green River Formation-Fossil Lake; Kemmerer, Wyoming

History of the Green River Formation

The Green River Formation represents one of the largest documented accumulations of sedimentary rock in the world and dates back 50 million years. It covers an area of more than 25,000 square miles and averages about 2000 feet in thickness. These lakes were formed by geologic events that uplifted the Rocky Mountains in early times. The climate was much different than the desert like climate of today. It was similar (subtropical) to the present climate of the Gulf Coast and southern Atlantic areas of the US. The first record of a fossil fish discovered in the Green River Formation was in 1856. All of the fossil fish, stingrays, palm fronds and others displayed on our web site come from the Fossil Lake area near Kemmerer, Wyoming USA. Found at the 7200 foot elevation this area has been commercially mined since the late 1800 hundreds

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