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Scientific name: Chordata: Osteichthyes: : : Cylindracanthus sp.
Common Name: Cylindracanthus Fish
Photographer: E. M. Barrows
Identifier: T. Haberny
Additional Information: Tom Haberny, Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club, found this rare fossil in the Martin Marietta Mine near Rocky Point, Pender County, NC, on 30 March 2001. This rostral spine is from the Eocene Epoch and is about 40,000,000 years old.