Priscacara fossil fish. This specimen of an extinct genus of perch has been fossilized in a slab of Eocene limestone, together with leaves of a palm p

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Priscacara fossil fish. This specimen of an extinct genus of perch has been fossilized in a slab of Eocene limestone, together with leaves of a palm plant or tree. This sample of fossil-bearing rock, from the Green River formation in Wyoming, USA, measures 30 by 45 centimetres.

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Photo credit: © DIRK WIERSMA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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