New Fossil Fishes Found Near Okotoks, Alberta

[Oxytropidoceras]

Seventeen skeletons of "a previously unknown fish

species" found in a 2,744 kg block of sandstone

near Okotoks, Canada.

Highway stroll turns into 60-million-year-old

fossil find by Damien Wood, Calgary Sun

March 28, 2013, http://www.intelligencer.ca/2013/03/28/highway-stroll-turns-into-60-million-year-old-fossil-find

Call of nature leads to “exceptional” fossil find

near Okotoks, Calgary Herald, March 28, 2013

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/canada/Call+nature+leads+exceptional+fossil+find+near+Okotoks/8167446/story.html

Fantastic fossils found near Okotoks.

by Michael Franklin, CTV Calgary

http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/fantastic-fossils-found-near-okotoks-1.1216740

Other articles:

http://gatewaygazette.ca/royal-tyrrell-museum-new-species-of-fossil-fish-found-near-okotoks/

http://gatewaygazette.ca/wp-content/uploads/kalins-pdf/singles/royal-tyrrell-museum-new-species-of-fossil-fish-found-near-okotoks.pdf

http://www.westernwheel.com/article/20130328/WHE0801/303289933/-1/whe0804/rare-fossils-discovered-near-okotoks

Yours,

Paul h.

Edited March 30, 2013 by Oxytropidoceras