Rare Properca sabaia Oligocene Tropical Fish Fossil

Description: This specimen is fully adult sized, colorful, exotic, spiny and well articulated. The skull exhibits wonderful detail as well as the fins, and body structure. Serranidae are a large family of fishes, including the sea basses and the groupers. Like this one, many species are small. They are often quite colorful and are generally reef dwellers. The Carpathians offer one of the world’s premier collecting sites for Oligocene fossil salt-water fossil fish.