A 3.6 gigapixel macro photograph of Leptolepides sprattiformis constructed from over 12,000 individual photographs.
A fossil of the fish species Leptolepides sprattiformis from the Upper Jurassic (~150 million-year-old) Solnhofen Formation of Germany, housed in the Vertebrate Paleontology collection at Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Specimen provided courtesy of John Rawlins, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
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