Stunning Museum 8.5" Priscacara fish 20" plate Fossil Lake Wyoming WY COA 6447

Description: Welcome to Pioneer Fossils! A Certificate of Authenticity, which has a color photo on it of the exact item you purchased, will accompany the specimen. Also a free display stand. Here is a real treasure for whoever acquires it. From the world-famous fossil beds of Fossil Lake, Green River Formation, Wyoming, this is from the Eocene, 52 million years old. It is a superb, beautifully naturally colored, nearly perfect 8.5-inch Priscacara serrata. It is from the Capping layer from the ancient lake, famous for extraordinary fish fossils, and extremely hard plates. This "Prisky" is a rare one indeed. The dorsal fins extend outward, and all the fins: dorsal, pectoral, pelvic, caudal (tail), and anal fins are all as good as they come. For instance, look at the tail fin, and at the branched soft rays at the end of each fin ray. Spectacular! You can't restore anything to look this good! Which is good, since it is not restored. The anal spikes are excellent, the skull and vertebrae, ribs, etc. are nearly perfect. Cap it all off with some of their tiny needle-sharp teeth in all their splendor. The Capping layer plate is about 20.1" by 15" and it weighs a hefty 24.6 lbs. There are faint remnants of a couple other fish on the front as well. The back of the plate was extremely hard to separate from the other Capping material, as is common. When you see the back, it becomes obvious why many preparators refuse to work with Capping layer specimens. Not an easy separation. There are bits on the back of some creature that was really big. In spite of their beauty, Capping layer specimens are just ridiculously hard and many require weeks to prepare a single specimen. Fortunately, we are selling the front side, and the Prisky survived the the prepping with flying colors. Against the soft blue-grey natural background of Capping layer stone, it makes a striking display for museum, hotel, office or home. We invite you to visit our store. Once inside our store, you will see about a thousand items for sale, and we hope you will love them. We sell items ranging from budget to superb. If you like what we have to offer, please follow our shop by adding us to your Saved Sellers! Scroll down to just below the item description; you will see our Pioneer Fossil Logo on the left. Over on the right, click on “Save Seller”, and add us to your list. To find us later, go to “My eBay” near the top right part of the selling page, then scroll down and click on “Saved Sellers”. It is the easiest way for you to look us up in the future. You will receive the exact item described and photographed, unless clearly stated otherwise. This item, along with all items we sell, is only intended for responsible adults. Please keep out of reach of children. All of our descriptions are 100% written by American humans. We will ship this only to the United States. We are not responsible if the buyer reships it somewhere else, after receiving it from us. Our responsibility ends at the destination we ship it to. If you take it out of the United States, you are on your own. COMBINED SHIPPING: We make every effort to combine shipping costs and we refund any overpayment back to you, on the same day we ship the item. We have given hundreds of partial refunds for combined shipping savings. We will do our best to combine purchases to save shipping costs. In some cases, that is easy, in some cases, not as much. Our items are of vastly different sizes and weights, but we never use shipping as a profit center. We would rather refund the shipping overpayment back to you, and have a happy buyer. We are happy to enclose a COA (Certificate of Authenticity). Some words of caution about COA’s: Do not let them become a substitute for learning about the specimens. We have been working with fossils and minerals for many years, and we have seen hundreds of very nice-looking COA’s, some that are wrong, mis-describing a specimen. Have you ever received a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) that had no photo on it of the item you purchased? A COA should be specific to one particular specimen, with a photo of the item on it. At Pioneer Fossils, our fossils and minerals come with a COA, and each have a photo of the exact item you just purchased. This assures that the COA can never be transferred to a different specimen. ****************************************************************************************************************************************** IMPORTANT: If you are not satisfied with your order, please contact us, and let us make it right, before giving any feedback. We want to make sure you are fairly treated by us always. *********************************************************************************************************************************** Signature upon delivery: We sometimes may decide it is best to put a "Signature Required" on a shipment, of any size or price. If it is important to you that you DO receive, or do NOT receive a Signature Required, please let us know at time of purchase. Any item over $200, you can expect a Signature required. Return Policy: If you are not satisfied with your item, please contact us within 72 hours of receiving the item. We'll refund your purchase price, minus shipping charges, upon safe return of the item to us in original condition (item cannot be altered or damaged) within 30 days of buyer’s receipt of item. Failure to contact us within 72 hours of receipt of item, voids this offer. Buyer is responsible for all return shipping charges. 6447.JYF&HFXYDXFRSG

Price: 1599.95 USD

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

End Time: 2024-08-16T04:45:39.000Z

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