Excellent Oligocene Fossil Fish Serranus from Poland

Serranus budensis

(Henkel 1856)

Class Actinopterygii, Order Perciformes, Family Serranidae

Geological Time: Oligocene

Size: Fossil fish is 2 1/8” in length

Fossil Site: Menilite-Krosno Series, Caparthian basin, Carpathian Mountains, Poland

Code: PFF440

Price: Sold

Fossil Fish SerranusDescription: This specimen is fully adult sized, colorful and well articulated. The skull exhibits wonderful detail as well as the fins, and body structure. These predatory fish are ancestral to the modern day sea basses of the same genus. The Carpathians offer one of the world’s premier collecting sites for Oligocene salt water fossil fish.

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Serranus budensis
Serranus budensis fish fossil

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