Aspidorhynchus comptoni, Fish skeleton
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Description:
The anterior portion of a ray-finned fish (Aspidorhynchus comptoni) embedded in a sandstone concretion. Specimen was collected from the Ararepe Basin in northeastern Brazil. This specimen was purchased by the donor from a commercial dealer in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1977.
- Site: San Paulo, Brazil
- Era: Mesozoic
- Period: Cretaceous
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Actinopterygii
- Order: Aspidorhynchiformes
- Family: Aspidorhynchidae
- Genus: Aspidorhynchus
- Species: Aspidorhynchus comptoni
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Ray-Finned Fish
- Object Id: PV1979
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