66" Green River Fossil Fish "Mural" with Giant Phareodus

Green River Fossil Fish Mural with Giant Phareodus #295644

Due to the size and weight of this piece it will be shipped on a pallet or in a crate via freight. Our website cannot automatically calculate freight shipping costs, so these costs will be calculated and billed after purchase. Please contact us prior to purchase if you need a shipping quote.

This is an incredibly beautiful fossil fish "mural" from the Green River Formation of Wyoming. The entire piece measures 66.15 x 43" and features a large, 18" long Phareodus (uncommon fish), three Diplomystus dentatus, a Mioplosus labracoides (scarce species), a Cockerellites (Priscacara) liops fish, and four large Knightia eocaena fish. These fossils were collected from Lindgren Quarry near Kemmerer, Wyoming. This is by far the largest fish plate/mural we've ever had available, and easily one of the most stunning to boot.

The two largest Diplomystus and the Mioplosus were found naturally preserved within this giant slab of rock. The remaining fish have all been inlaid.

The entire piece has been backed with wood for stability and includes a wood wall hanger so that it can easily be hung on a wall with horizontal or vertical presentation. It weighs just over 150 lbs and will ship in a wooden crate on a pallet.

If you'd prefer vertical presentation, please let us know in the instructions so we can adjust the size of the wood hanger. Vertical mounting may require an additional board along the bottom of the mural to assist with weight distribution.

Measurements:

Plate - 66.15 x 43"
Phareodus - 18" long
Mioplosus - 11.4" long
Diplomystus - 18.5", 16.4", and 5" long
Cockerellites - 5.3" long
Knightia - 7.3", 7.2", 6.2", and 5.9" long

50 million years ago, in the Eocene, these fish thrived in Fossil Lake, which was fed by the Uinta and Rocky Mountain highlands. The anoxic conditions at the bottom of Fossil Lake slowed bacterial decomposition, prevented scavengers from disturbing corpses and, most interestingly, suffocated creatures that ventured into the oxygen-starved aquatic layer. The result is a miraculous exhibition of Eocene biota: a subtropical aquatic community within sycamore forests, teeming with creatures such as freshwater stingrays, dog-sized horses, menacing alligators, early flying bats, and one of the first primates.

A view of one of the commercial quarries where fossils from the Green River Formation are collected.

$14,500

SPECIES

Phareodus sp., M. labracoides, D. dentatus, C. liops & K. eocaena

AGE

Eocene (~51 million years)