Description

Upper Oligocene
Menilite Formation
Outer Carpathians, Krepac, Poland
32mm fish swallowing another fish on 110mm slab.

Fish.

Serranus is a genus of bony fishes of the Family Serranidae, a group that includes modern Pacific and Atlantic sea basses. It dates back to the Middle Eocene of Europe – also known from the Pliocene of north Africa.

Here’s an example of a fish that died while trying to swallow another fish.