Gar
date: label: Collection Date
content: 2014
name: label: Collector
content: T. Lyson
label: Discipline
content: Paleobiology
label: Region
content: US High Plains and Rocky Mountains (ID, MT, ND, SD, WY, CO)
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: Cenozoic - Paleogene - Puercan I
label: Notes
content: These are fossilized fish scales from a gar, a ray-finned fish. They are black on the side that is the scale and brown on the other that is the mineral. Each measures roughly 2.5 cm x 1.5 cm x .3 cm or less.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 7
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Nov 2020
label: Stratigraphy
content: Fort Union
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: North America, United States, Montana, Fallon County
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Lepisosteidae
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO401500
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Actinopterygii, Lepisosteiformes, Lepisosteidae