5.7" Cretaceous Fossil Fish (Enchodus?) - Lebanon

Cretaceous Fossil Fish (Enchodus?) - Lebanon #256083

This is a 5.7" fossil fish (Enchodus sp.?) from the famous marine lagerstätte of Hakel, Lebanon. It is Upper Cretaceous in age or approximately 94 million years old. Numerous species have been identified from this area, making identification difficult. This fish lacks defining details, so a confident identification cannot be made. A repaired break goes through the specimen.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

The discovery of amazingly preserved marine fossils near Hakel, Lebanon dates back many centuries. In fact, they were first mentioned in writing by Herodotus, over 450 years before the birth of Christ. The first scientific work on these localities began in the 1800s: these deposits have been meticulously quarried by several Lebanese families for over a century. We purchase our specimens directly from one of these families.

These deposits represent a warm, shallow sea of the Middle Cretaceous, and have yielded over 70 types of fish and numerous other genera found nowhere else in the world. The preservation on many of these specimens is truly amazing: many examples of soft bodied preservation have been found.

A photo of the quarry at Hakel, Lebanon