Solnhofen Leptolepides sprattiformis Fossil Fish Mass Mortality Plate

Description: A most displayable multi-plate with approximately 30 partial to well-preserved individuals. Leptolepides are common from Solnhofen, but like the Knightia mortality plates from the Green River Fm. of Wyoming, are very desirable. The genus already shows all the characteristics of the true bony fishes, and may represent the early stages of the developmental route towards herrings of the Clupeiformes, the Order to which Knightia belongs. The mass mortality renders this a most attractive piece.