The seabed from 240 million years ago. Visible is a nothosaurid tooth and a fragment of a gastralium.

SilesianTriassic

Category: Osteichthyes

  • Colobodus sp. cf. chorzowiensis ganoid scale, 10/LMK

    Colobodus sp. cf. chorzowiensis ganoid scale, 10/LMK

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    Colobodus sp. cf. chorzowiensis Middle Triassic, Lower Muschelkalk (anisian), Upper Silesia, Poland A beautiful, complete ganoid scale, likely belonging to Colobodus chorzowiensis (yes, Von Meyer described this species based on specimens from Chorzów in Upper Silesia!). It’s the finest specimen I’ve found. Fish equipped with this type of scales were covered in a complete, flexible…

  • Ptychoceratodus cf. medelungi tooth plate 9/LMK

    Ptychoceratodus cf. medelungi tooth plate 9/LMK

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    Ptychoceratodus sp. cf medelungi Middle Triassic, Lower Muschelkalk (anisian), Upper Silesia, Poland An extremely rare specimen from the Lower Muschelkalk. A dental plate of a lungfish (Dipnoi). Ptychoceratodus is an extinct genus of lungfish that occurred from the Early Triassic to the Middle Jurassic. The fossil record usualy preserves dental plates (the fish had two…