Yes, fishes. Fish is plural for a population of fish, but, fishes denotes a variety of populations. Therefore, an age of fishes -- the Devonian Age -- 350 million years ago, when Lycoming County was located about 20-degrees south of the equator and this region was a sub-tropical area receiving the surface runoff from a 40,000-feet high mountain range.
We learned this from a fossil dig conducted on Route 120, near Northbend in Clinton County.
The munchkins used the computer lab and held their hands to the computer screen to see the bony fin of a Hynerpeton Bassetti, was the same size as their hand. WOW!! Kinda makes a musky look tiny.
Better yet! Hyneria lindae -- a 12-feet long aquatic predator. The teeth of this bad boy were recovered and displayed in a photo slideshow presented by the Philadelphia Inquirer in December.
I got all kinds of links to this dig site, including a link to the Keystone Central School District (Lock Haven area), which featured this fossil find in a website the 5th and 6th graders created two years ago.
Go to my website and click on "fossils" in the grey column.
Have a great night folks -- me? Gonna dream about landing that Hyneria lindae in my dad's 10-feet long rowboat.
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Hi Z!!
Thanks for clearing those things up. That helps a little. Those articles were a bit confusing.
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