fish fossil
Petrified aquatic creature
The preserved remains or impression of a prehistoric fish found in rock or sedite.
Fish fossils are among the most common vertebrate fossils, ranging from complete skeletons to isolated teeth, scales, or bones: The limestone quarry yielded dozens of fish fossils.
Like other fossils, they provide evidence of ancient life and environments.
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- prehistoric lifeOrganisms predating human records
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
- imprintMark from applied pressure
- ancientVery old indeed
deep time · scales · petrified · bone · bone fragment · sediment · rock · specimen · gills · fins · trilobite · amber · excavation · paleontology · natural history · coelacanth · limestone · primordial
- fossil fish
- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, brachiopod
- paleontologydinosaurs, paleontology, dinosaur bones, mammoth, dinosaur