Fossil fish skeleton
Place Collected(Object)
: Europe, Germany, Bayern, Solnhofen Dimensions:length=65; width=26; height=3 cm
Taxonomy
- Attributes
- Objects
- Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
- Phylum:
Chordata
- Class:
Osteichthyes
- Order:
Amiiformes
- Family:
Caturidae
- Genus:
Caturus
- SpecificEpithet:
furcatus
Object number: ROMVP00943
DescriptionThese little fish were common, if unspectacular components of the Jurassic marine ecosystem. Their time was yet to come. They are among the earliest members of a group of bony fish called teleosts that diversified and grew in importance through the Jurassic and Cretaceous to become the dominant type of fish right up to the present-day.
