This week’s Fossil Friday is a pair of enamelled gar scales. Gars are ray-finned fish whose bodies are covered in tough, often shiny scales; the enamelled surface helps protect them and gives many specimens a distinctive look in the field and in collections.
These scales were collected from Red Rock Coulee in 2006 by Hope Johnson. They are catalogued as APS2006.050.
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Neanderthals in Central Europe hunted pond turtles: Shells of captured reptiles may have been used as ladles / Research collaboration of #MainzUniversity & @paleomonrepos / #LEIZA & #UniLeiden 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/neanderthals-in-central-europe-hunted-pond-turtles/
Did you miss our Paleo 2026 symposium? No worries! We're slowly posting the recordings of the talks, and the first one was released today.
Join Dr. Julien Divay as he explains the surprising utility of fish microvertebrate fossils, what they can tell us about the palaeoenvironment, and what further work is needed!
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