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Show 120,000,000 Year Old Fish Found in Texas Rock BERKELEY, CALIF. A fossil deep-water perch, first of its kind to be found in North America, has been received by the museum of paleontology of the University of California. The specimen was found near the town of McKinney, Texas, by W. W. Pruett It was in the center of a limestone rock dug from under the foundation of an old monument Breaking of the rock revealed the specimen. In appearance, the specimen Is similar to that of the present-day perch, except that It was a marine fish living in deep waters. It was about six inches in length, and was a swift swimmer. Linked With Kansas Fossils. The specimen, which belongs to the cretaceous geologic period of about 120,000,000 years ago, helps to complete the picture of marine Jife as it then existed off the coast of this continent, according to C J. Hesse, research assistant in the museum here. Fossil fish of the same geologic epoch have been found in abundance abun-dance in western Kansas, Mr. Hesse said. But they are mostly near-shore near-shore fish. The present discovery is one of the few deep-water fish of the period to be found in North America. |
