Prehistoric fish fossil. Fossilised remains of a Prolates sp. prehistoric bony fish, found in France. This animal lived around 65 million years ago du

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Prehistoric fish fossil. Fossilised remains of a Prolates sp. prehistoric bony fish, found in France. This animal lived around 65 million years ago during the Palaeogene (Lower Tertiary) period. Photographed at the In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, in 2011.

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