06868 - Top Beautiful 3.02 Inch Enchodus libycus Vertebra Bone Late Cretaceous Corals or brittle fracturing or shrinkage

or brittle fracturing or shrinkage of the concretion interior by either earthquakes or compaction (Pratt 2001

the fossil record of these enormous vertebrates is very well represented

Trilobita - Redlichiida - Neltneriidae

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Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea - Mimosphinctidae

06868 - Top Beautiful 3.02 Inch Enchodus libycus Vertebra Bone Late Cretaceous Corals or brittle fracturing or shrinkageEnchodus sp, Agassiz 1843 (ray finned fish) Osteichthyes Salmoniformes Enchodontidae Synonym: Tetheodus Cope 1874 Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1843. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (livr. 18). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel xxxii 188 Parent taxon: Enchodontidae according to C. Fielitz and K. A. Gonzlez Rodrguez 2010 See also Applegate 1970, Arambourg and Joleaud 1943, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Forey et al. 2003, Holloway et al. 2017,