Fish Fossil - Knightia Eoceana UV often including scale and other

often including scale and other soft tissue traces against a high contrast laminated limestone slab

With a dazzling array of colors and crystal structures

A silicone-based mineral closely related to quartz and agate

red and many other colors corresponding to their physical makeup and conditions when the mineral was formed

it is largely mined as an industrial ore across the globe

Fish Fossil - Knightia Eoceana UV often including scale and otherDuring the Eocene, 40 50 million years ago, vast shoals of freshwater fish inhabited a large shallow inland sea across the American West. The herring like fish of the genus Knightia were far and away the most abundant freshwater fish during this era, and because of this they are one of the most frequently found vertebrate fossils on earth. Originating from the famed Green River Formation in Wyoming, fossils of Knightia eocaena and their close