File:Diplomystus sp. (fossil fish) (Fossil Butte Member, Green River Formation, Lower Eocene; southwestern Wyoming, USA) (49092735538).jpg
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Diplomystus sp. - fossil fish in lacustrine marlstone from the Eocene of Wyoming, USA. (public display, Calistoga Petrified Forest visitor center, Calistoga, California, USA) The Green River Formation of Utah-Colorado-Wyoming is famous for having vast oil shale deposits and for having exquisitely-preserved fossils. Fossil Butte National Monument in southwestern Wyoming preserves and displays some of these high-quality fossils. Leaves and fish are the most common large fossils in the Fossil Lake Basin of the Green River Fm. Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Actinopterygii, Clupeiformes, Clupeidae Stratigraphy: Fossil Butte Member, Green River Formation, upper Wasatchian Stage (Wa4)/Ypresian Stage/Lostcabinian, Lower Eocene Locality: unrecorded site in southwestern Wyoming, USA |
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| Source | Diplomystus sp. (fossil fish) (Fossil Butte Member, Green River Formation, Lower Eocene; southwestern Wyoming, USA) |
| Author | James St. John |
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