Positive/Negative Pair of a Partial Fossil Fish Aspiration | Mioplosus labracoides | Wyoming wyo flattened rostrums (beak-like snouts) resembling

flattened rostrums (beak-like snouts) resembling a modern duck’s bill

where mineral-rich groundwater replaces the original organic material

Pteranodon sp

stratified freshwater lakes of the Eocene

Members of the class Ophiuroidea

Positive/Negative Pair of a Partial Fossil Fish Aspiration | Mioplosus labracoides | Wyoming wyo flattened rostrums (beak-like snouts) resemblingMioplosus labracoides Eocene (51. 98 Million Years Ago) Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA In Stone Fossils Private Quarry Specimen approx. size: 4" Positive plate approx. size: 7. 5" x 6. 5" Negative plate approx. size: 7" x 9" Known as an aspiration, this fossil captures a partial Mioplosus that died trying to swallow its prey whole. The prey fish was too large for the Mioplosus to swallow, and it literally choked to death on it. The tail of the