2.35" Oligocene Fossil Codfish (Paleogadus) - Poland

This is a 2.35" long fossil codfish of the species Paleogadus simionescui (Simionescu, 1905) preserved on a slab of stone. It comes out of the nannofossil biozone NP24 of the Krosno Formation Unit near Sobniów, Poland. Beautiful bone preservation on this specimen. There are a couple repaired cracks through the rock/fossil.

Comes with an acrylic display stand.

You can read more about the ichthyofaunal ecostratigraphy of the Oligocene-Early Miocene strata of the Polish Outer Carpathian basin, here.

http://www.asgp.pl/sites/default/files/volumes/76_1_001_111.pdf