Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Fossil Fish |
Other Name |
Atopacanthus dentatus |
Catalog Number |
E 2496 |
Collection |
Division of Geology |
Description |
GENOTYPE Small slab of shale with a fragmentary, narrow, compressed spine bearing three large teeth along one margin. |
Preservation methods |
Fossilization |
Collector |
Bryant, William |
Locality |
Eighteen Mile Creek, Hamburg, N.Y. |
Formation |
Rhinestreet shale |
Kingdom |
Animalia (Animals) |
Phylum |
Chordata |
Class |
Osteichthyes |
Order |
Ischnacanthida |
Genus |
Atopacanthus |
Species |
Atopacanthus dentatus |
People |
Bryant, W. L. |