I shot this for the Carnegie Magazine this AM. The lighting was bad, I couldn't use my lights either as there was glass in front of it which reflected badly.
This is a fossil of the Banjo Fish, Belemnobatis sismondae. Rays and skates, including this 150-million-year-old Belemnobatis, are bottom dwellers, with a depressed body shape and greatly expanded front fins, which propel them through the water. This “guitar” or “banjo” fish, popularly named for a fancied resemblance to musical instruments, probably lived on mollusks and other invertebrates plucked from the bottom of the Solnhofen lagoons. The living banjo fish, Rhinobatos, is not much different from its Jurassic predecessors.