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Rare Tiny Fossil Fish Aspiration Mioplosus Green RIver Formation Wyoming Eocene
Rare Tiny Fossil Fish Aspiration Mioplosus Green RIver Formation Wyoming Eocene
Rare Tiny Fossil Fish Aspiration Mioplosus Green RIver Formation Wyoming Eocene
Rare Tiny Fossil Fish Aspiration Mioplosus Green RIver Formation Wyoming Eocene
Rare Tiny Fossil Fish Aspiration Mioplosus Green RIver Formation Wyoming Eocene
Rare Tiny Fossil Fish Aspiration Mioplosus Green RIver Formation Wyoming Eocene
Rare Tiny Fossil Fish Aspiration Mioplosus Green RIver Formation Wyoming Eocene
Rare Tiny Fossil Fish Aspiration Mioplosus Green RIver Formation Wyoming Eocene
Rare Tiny Fossil Fish Aspiration Mioplosus Green RIver Formation Wyoming Eocene
Rare Tiny Fossil Fish Aspiration Mioplosus Green RIver Formation Wyoming Eocene

Rare Tiny Fossil Fish Aspiration Mioplosus Green RIver Formation Wyoming Eocene

$ 158.37

Availability: 100 in stock
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  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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    Description

    Here is an extremely rare aspiration plate from the world-famous fossil beds of Fossil Lake, Green River Formation, Wyoming. From the Eocene, 52 million years ago.
    It is a very tiny Mioplosus eating another fish. When the attacker "bit off more than it could chew" to the point where it could no longer move its gills (breathe), the attacking fish would die of aspiration.
    Mioplosus is known to have been a cannibal from almost the moment of birth (see "The Lost World of Fossil Lake", page 162).  To actually get a rare genuine aspiration fossil is extremely cool, especially one so young! You can see enough of the victim (vertebrae and rib remnants) to positively identify this as an apsiration.
    The Mioplosus is about 1.6" in length. The plate is an irregular 3.2" by 4", and it weighs 5.3 oz.  I suggest you use about an 8x loupe to see the details.
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