编号 100632902

编号 100632902

Species: Piveteauia madagascariensis
Age: lower Triassic
Locality: Madagascar
Measurements: c. 16.0 cm long
Weight: 0.87 kg
A highly-detailed coelacanth fish in beautiful grey and red–rust colours. The preservation of scales and fins is stunning. As usual with fossils from the lower Triassic of northern Madagascar, the specimen consists of the external moulds of the left and right flanks of the fish, preserved in a calcareous concretion. The fossil was glued.