Fish Fossil - Knightia Eoceana Shark Tooth Iron Coarse Octahedrite IIE

Iron Coarse Octahedrite IIE

One of the most widely recognized and unmistakable minerals

copper has been used by humans as ornamentation

40-50 million years ago

Fish Fossil - Knightia Eoceana Shark Tooth Iron Coarse Octahedrite IIEDuring the Eocene, 40 50 million years ago, vast shoals of freshwater fish inhabited a large shallow inland sea across the American West. The herring like fish of the genus Knightia were far and away the most abundant freshwater fish during this era, and because of this they are one of the most frequently found vertebrate fossils on earth. Originating from the famed Green River Formation in Wyoming, fossils of Knightia eocaena and their close