Fossil Fish Plate (NHMW-Geo 1880/0017/0995)3D Model
3D scan of a small limestone plate with a fossilized fish. The species is one of the most common lagoon fish that lived in the Jurassic (150 million years ago) in the southern German area, Anaethalion knorri.
The engravement at the bottom is a Vergil-Cento, uniting parts of the Aeneis and the Georgica and is written in Latin. The author is unknown.
You can find this plate in Hall 8 at the NHM Vienna.
Specimen: Anaethalion knorri (de Blainville, 1818)
Inventory number: NHMW-Geo1880/0017/0995
Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Palaeontology Dept. (contact: Mathias Harzhauser)
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Scanned and edited by Anna Haider (NHMW)
Scanner: Artec Space Spider. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.
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