This is a request for brianpokemon for Rosie from Fossil Fighters as a mermaid hunting fossils underwater and Shout Out goes to brianpokemon for the idea and for the request.

Mining for fossils

#mermaid #traditionalart #fossils #archaeologist #obscuremedia #fanart #fossilfightersrosie #dinosaurs #fossilfighters #nintendodsgames #fossilfighterschampions #underwater #fossilfishweek #rosie #mermaychallenge2021 #mermay2021 #hiddengem #mermaychallenge #cave #pinkhairgirl

one of the best preserved specimens of the moonfish Mene rhombea, one of the most iconic #fossils from the #Eocene Bolca #Lagerstätte in northern Italy, at Museo dei Fossili in Bolca

#FossilFishWeek

an amazing #fossil of the Cretaceous Xiphactinus @RoyalTyrrell. Before its death this specimen, about 4 meter long, had swallowed whole another large fish that can still be seen preserved inside the skeleton
#FossilFishWeek

Although living gars *appear* similar to fossil gars, the lineage continues to evolve (fossil gars also more diverse).

ReGARdless, that “long snout-lots of teeth-armored scales” body plan has worked well for them since the late Jurassic! #FossilFishWeek 2/2

📷Fossil Mall

FOSSIL GARS for #FossilFishWeek #FossilFriday!

They *look pretty similar* to living gars, don’t they? The family found a basic body plan that worked, and have stuck with it for +150 million years! 1/2

📷@Mosasaurologist, @Yara_Haridy, me

a #fossil Chaetodon #butterflyfish at the geological museum in Bologna

#FossilFriday #FossilFishWeek

a Pagellus seabream from Miocene deposits in Sicily in the galleries of the paleontological museum in Palermo

#FossilFishWeek

Frigocanthus margaritatus is one of several Pliocene filefishes described from Italian sites. This specimen is a paratype, currently on display at the geological museum in Bologna

#FossilFishWeek

Another Miocene fossil from Central Italy, a Syngnathus pipefish, for #FossilFishWeek

here is a nice razorfish from Miocene deposits in the Marche region, Italy, for the beginning of #FossilFishWeek