Bony Fish of the Late Miocene (Beaumaris)

The waters of Beaumaris were teaming with a wide variety of fish. Many of the species are now extinct.

Section of a cranial bone of a fish

    

Toadfish jawbone (left) and a variety of crushing plates (right)

Diodon formosus

Edaphodon sweeti (Rat Fish, Chimaera)

Vertebrae of bony fish. The larger one on the top left may be from a Tuna or Sunfish.

      

TILLEY bones (hyperostotic neurocranium bone) from unidentified bony fish. These are cellular swellings in bone such as vertebra or the thin bones of the skull. A current example of this is the bump on the head of an “old man snapper”.