Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Thrissops formosus

Thrissops formosus

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Original - A fossilised Thrissops formosus, a species from the extinct genus Thrissops. Thrissops were teleost fish that lived in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

Reason

Something a bit different here; a great reproduction of an unusually good fossil. A strong lead illustration for a genus of extinct fish. Already featured on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Thrissops

FP category for this image

Fish

Creator

H. Zell

• Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 00:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support Nice nomination and very nice work. First, as Sarah Palin might say: “This is really ‘scientificy’.” As such, it would certainly cast Wikipedia in a fine light for 24 hours. But more, it is seldom there is a fossil with so much soft tissue fossilized—and with so much fossil/matrix color differentiation; that is just awesome. And finally, the lighting angle is great and the resolution is very high. Kudos to H. Zell for such an outstanding contribution to the project. Greg L (talk) 01:44, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support First class fossil and technically proficient photo of it. — raekyT 03:03, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
• Strong support Per above as well as its great quality and detail. --I'ḏ♥One 14:18, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support per above and for strong EV --AutoGyro (talk) 18:04, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support - Indeed, and strong EV. -- Jack?! 18:50, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:Thrissops cf formosus 01.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:13, 1 August 2010 (UTC)