{"product_id":"fossil-fish-fragment-probably-koonwarra","title":"Fossil Fish Fragment","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fish held in the middle of disappearing. The strongest comparison is the famous fossil fish of Koonwarra, in South Gippsland, where an Early Cretaceous lake bed, around 115 million years old, preserved small fish, insects, plants and even feathers in fine mudstone. At that time this part of Australia sat close to the South Pole, and the still, cold lake floor buried things gently enough to keep extraordinary detail. The fish there typically run 10 to 30 cm and survive as delicate brown traces in pale stone, which is exactly what this fragment looks like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Koonwarra attribution stays \"probably\", on the strength of the look and the regional museum provenance rather than a firm record. Not a complete specimen, but that is part of the appeal: less a perfect fish than a surviving record of burial, pressure and very deep time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248760782961,"sku":"KOBK.26.NAT.006","price":145.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/h08.jpg?v=1781597428","url":"https:\/\/kobk.online\/products\/fossil-fish-fragment-probably-koonwarra","provider":"KILL OR BE KILLED","version":"1.0","type":"link"}