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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish, Smerdis macrurus, collected from unspecified rocks of Tertiary, Oligocene, Stampian (= Rupelian) age from Provence, France. Collected by David M. Lumsden (?).
This small freshwater bony fish has been preserved in fine-grained lake sediments. There was no oxygen on the lake bed which prevented any bacterial decay and stopped other animals feeding on its body.
The specimen was found in France.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Chordata Pisces David M. (?) Lumsden | Temporal: | Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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