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

SilesianTriassic

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. madelungi tooth plate 9/LMK

    Ptychoceratodus cf. madelungi tooth plate 9/LMK

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