Byblos Fossil Museum
The Byblos Fossil Museum (aka Memory of Time) is a museum in Byblos, Lebanon. This museum contains fossil collections[1] of sharks, eels, shrimps, squids, rays, coelacanthes and flying fish. It was opened in 1991 and is in the old souk of Byblos. Most of its collection comes from the nearby villages of , , and .
Bony fish fossils[]
Some of the bony fish fossil genera that can be seen at the museum are: Apateopholis, Belonostomus, the cephalopod genera, Coccodus, and Ctenothrissa.
See also[]
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References[]
External links[]
- Memory of Time — Official website (in English)
Categories:
- 1991 establishments in Lebanon
- Museums established in 1991
- Museums in Lebanon
- Fossil museums
- Byblos
- Paleontology in Lebanon
- Asian museum stubs
- Lebanese building and structure stubs