Image: Apsopelix sp

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Description: Apsopelix sp. - fossil fish from the Cretaceous of Kansas, USA. (public display, Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, Kansas, USA) From museum signage: "Streamlined fishes with fins distributed along the length of their bodies were well designed for continuous swimming. Apsopelix and other fishes probably roved over wide areas hunting for food." Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii, Crossognathiformes, Crossognathidae Stratigraphy: unspecified Upper Cretaceous unit (probably the Smoky Hill Chalk of the Niobrara Formation) Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed site in Logan County, western Kansas, USA
Title: Apsopelix sp
Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/33826460535/
Author: James St. John
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