Fish eats fish, cretaceous age

This slab contains several fossil fishes. It comes from the Upper Cretaceous strata of Haqil-Byblos in 
Lebanon. The age of the exhibit is around 100 million years.

The large fish is a Eurypholis boissieri, the medium-sized one is a Nematonotus longispinus and the small 
fish is called Armigatus brevissimus.

Special feature: The large predatory fish has several eaten fish in its stomach! You can clearly see a 
fairly complete Prionolepis cataphractus. There are also various parts of bitten small fishes. In the case 
of one prey fish, it is interesting that the animal was not eaten head first as usual but with the 
tail fin first. This is rare, the predator was hungry and the prey was small enough to be swallowed 
"upside down".

The large predatory fish Eurypholis measures around 19.5 cm. The Nematonotus measures about 11 cm and 
the Armigatus is about 5 cm long. The matrix was broken and have been professionally glued, it measures 
approximately 37 x 25 x 1 cm. The back of the stone was reinforced with epoxy resin and fiberglass mat 
to permanently stabilize the exhibit.

No manipulations, no varnish, no paint - everything is natural!

We certainly won't get anything like it again soon, so don't miss this opportunity to add an exclusive 
and scientifically interesting exhibit to your collection.