Rare Fossil Rayfish 

Aspidorhynchus acutirostris

Jurassic

Solnhofen, Germany

35 inches long from nose to tail, in 46 1/2 x 29 inches matrix. An🐷 excellent specimen, with the scales and bones perfectly preserved in the limestone matrix, with only some very minor 🉐classic restorations. 

Aspidorhynchus is an extinct genus of predatory, ray-finned fꦚish whose name literally translates as "shield snout" (due to their upper jaws being much longer than their lower.) A long, slender, fast-moving fish from the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods, its fossils have been found in Antarctica and Europe, the present example havinﷺg been discovered in the limestone beds of Solnhofen, Germany.