Cyclurus keheri Fish Fossil

Middle Eocene
Order Amiiformes, Family Amiidae
Messel Pit, Darmstadt, Germany

Messel is a world famous Eocene Lagerstatte noted for exquisite soft tissue preservation, as evidenced here. The fossils are so fragile that they are embedded in resin in the field, for transport to the prep lab. This fossil fish is more than a foot long.