Description

Eosalmo driftwoodensis
Middle Eocene
Driftwood Creek Formation
Smithers, British Columbia, Canada

12.5 inch fossil salmon. Specimen was legally collected before the British Columbia government restricted collecting and declared the area a park in 2000. One of a kind specimen that will never be available again.

See: WILSON, M. V., & LI, G. Q. (1999). Osteology and systematic position of the Eocene salmonid† Eosalmo driftwoodensis Wilson from western North America. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 125(3), 279-311.