https://eostone.com Fossils and Natural History at Home Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:28:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.5 https://eostone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/eostone-icon-logo-copy-100x100.png https://eostone.com 32 32 https://eostone.com/product/fossil-collector-mural-02_q100831010cm/ Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:55:30 +0000 http://eostone.com/product/fossil-collector-mural-02_q100831010cm/ Diplomystus is an extinct genus of freshwater clupeomorph fish distantly related to modern-day extant herrings, alewives, and sardines. Phareodus was a genus of freshwater fish from the Eocene to the Oligocene of Australia, Europe and North America, with an oval outline, a small head, and a slightly pointed snout. Priscacara is an extinct genus of perch from the middle Eocene, characterized by a sunfish-like body and stout dorsal and anal spines. Mass deaths of Priscacara suggest it formed schools. A small schooling fish, Knightia made an abundant food source for larger Eocene predators. Quarried from Mosaic Lake and unearthed by hand, this striking mural contains a 16″ Diplomystus, 6.5″ Phareodus, 8.5″ Priscacara, and 4 Knightia.

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