#thrissops

NEW ARTWORK for Fossil Friday Here is "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of Thrissops, Grendelius and Nannopterygius ichthyosaurs, diving Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs, Caturus, Gyrodus, and Pachycormus fishes, a Dakosaurus croc, and three Kimmerosaurus.

Thrissops This fish is a Thrissops, a genus of ray-finned, bony fish that swam in the seas during the Jurassic and the Cretaceous. This extremely well preserved sample was preserved in the Kimmeridge clay, a geologic unit made of fine-grained sediment that sank to the bottom of a Jurassic seaway. The unit is exposed on the Dorset coast of England and travels offshore where it is the major source of North Sea oil and natural gas. This sample is housed in the Etches Collection – a private museum in the area where this fossil was found. -JBB Image credit: Lebatihem https://flic.kr/p/2n2VpGj

Here are some crops from "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of Thrissops, Grendelius and Nannopterygius ichthyosaurs, diving Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs, Caturus, Gyrodus, and Pachycormus fishes, a Dakosaurus croc, and three Kimmerosaurus.

Here are some crops from "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of Thrissops, Grendelius and Nannopterygius ichthyosaurs, diving Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs, Caturus, Gyrodus, and Pachycormus fishes, a Dakosaurus croc, and three Kimmerosaurus.