The Etches Collection
@TEC_Kimmeridge
Modern museum & centre for learning in Kimmeridge housing amazing marine fossils that tell the story of life & death in Dorset’s Jurassic seas….
Joined January 2015
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K519 is a skeleton of a leptolepidid fish collected from Dorset in 1989. Leptolepidids were small, agile fishes that likely formed dense shoals. As an early branch of modern teleosts, they are important for understanding the origins of today’s vast diversity of ray-finned fishes.
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