Geology, Fossil Fishes

The fossil fish collection of The Field Museum is one of the two largest in North America. It contains over 30,000 specimens from localities all over the world ranging in age from Ordovician to Pleistocene in age.
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The fossil fish collection is the first or second largest in North America, and one of the world's top four. It contains about 17,000 catalogued specimens.
Fossil Fishes: 16389 catalogued & uncatalogued but inventoried
In general: one of the largest and most diverse fossil fish collections with...



