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Fish: Elonichthys cf. E. elegantulus Eastman

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Colour image of brown rock with black fish fossil
Fish: Elonichthys cf. E. elegantulus Eastman. Lower Carboniferous. Albert Mines, New Brunswick. Collector: Natural History Society of New Brunswick. New Brunswick Museum (NBMG 3102). Specimen length 3.5 cm. Palaeoniscid fish belong to an extinct Order of the ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii). Today the ‘bony fishes’ make up most of the world’s vertebrates, including 95% of the 25,000 species of fish.