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Found in a Cavert cliff formation outcrop in Washington DC. It appears to be a fish hyporal fan (telos) whatever that is.

The best fish I found this year on the Pshekha River

Found in the Moscow region

It was received by exchange. Place of finding: Leningrad region

This fish was found in the Pshekha River and left at the discovery site.

Upper Devon, Famennian Stage

It was purchased three years ago. Place of discovery Krasnoyarsk region

In my collection I have an Enchodus marchesettii, but in doing more research I am unsure about the relationship it has to other Enchodus, and it's spread as there seem to be very very few specimens, and most are mislabeled Eurypholis or Spaniodon. I am just very interested if anyone has any papers on Lebanon fish.

Found this little guy out in Big Brook NJ. Appears to have enamel and the weathered remnants of a bit of serration, but I could be wrong. My guess is it’s a fish tooth due to the size but not sure if it’s the right size/shape to be something like Pachyrhizodus. NJ fossil ID pages didn’t help to conclusively ID the tooth. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks all, Try

Hi Everyone, I found this fossilized tooth-like specimen in Poland (Kraków area, mydlniki quary) probably Jurassic layers. I will be grateful for helping me with it's identification. Thanks .

hello, i had this fish for like 20 years now but i never knew where it is from or what it is. it's around 15cm long. could you guys give me a hand with it? i can only say it was bought in italy, i don't know more details. thank you beforehand

Got to work on these guys because some of these creatures were my inspiration of what they would have looked like in color and others are at an art show. Wonder what animals will you like to see when its unleashed before your very eyes?

I got a fish fossil, which is the first I've ever done. They had lines marked and was wanting to ask if I may have missed something? There was 2 line marks below and 3 on top that would guess was for fins. But the fish seemed to stop way before any fins? There is a raised line bump near the back of the spine(back where tail fin should be), is it a second fish maybe? or did I mess up?

I want to give this away with a correct ID. Is the a Knightia fish from the Green River Formation? Fish about 9 cm long. Thanks, John

Dimensions: To begin, the specimen is 36cm long, 19cm wide at the base (widest point), and about 7cm thick at the thickest point (base). Background: I am a student doing research in the Museum of Biodiversity at Notre Dame. I have begun a project to try to identify many of the fossils in the collection. Many years ago, there was a faculty member who was a paleontologist who collected specimens for many years, most of which now reside in the museum. The issue is that he passed away suddenly and left many fossils without much or any information attached. From what I have been able to gather, most of his fossils have come from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana (66-65 mya, late Cretaceous), due to all of his fossils in field jackets coming from this location (like this one, that I removed from the jacket). All other jackets (that are currently opened) in the museum contain remnants of a triceratops. There are many more that have not been opened from the field, which I believe were collected in the mid 1990s (unimportant). Because of the ambiguous nature of the fossil and my inexperience with fossils (I have just started exploring the field). I am the only person in the museum who has touched the fossils in at least 5-7 years, as there is no full-time geologist or paleontologist on faculty at ND, and the collection is solely taken care of by students who have interests. Identification?: When I first started working on the fossil, it was labelled with an identification as "Fish?". I have absolutely no idea who tentatively identified it as such, and in looking at it, I have no idea what led them to the conclusion. I, personally, do not see anything fish-like about it, sans the vague shape resemblance. Because of this, and my suspicions about where it was found and what other fossils are found at Hell Creek, I thought that it was unlikely a fish. From the concentration of ceratopsidae that are found in the formation and the amount that we have in the museum, I started to explore the possibilities of it being a part of one. Because the museum also has other parts of the same triceratops skull such as two horns, the beak, and one small skull fragment. I first thought that it may be a frill, due to the lines that I thought might be blood lines, which are found on most frill fragments, but the patterns appeared to be different (see photo 2). I then looked into other parts of the skull that might fit this fossil fragment. Following this, and based on the ridge that runs along what I assume to be the back of the specimen, I theorized that the it may be a piece of the squamosal bone morphology of the skull of a ceratopsian. Also, because there are parts of an ankylosauridae in the museum, I thought that it may be an armor fragment. Please know that these preliminary identifications are based on my limited knowledge of the morphology of late Cretaceous animals, and the lack of information I have on this specific fossil. Any help will be appreciated, and I will be looking closely to respond any questions on the subject. Lastly: As I am beginning in the subject of paleontology, where do you suggest that I can get my information? Are there any preferred resources, textbooks, or databases where I can increase my knowledge? Thank you for your help, and I look forward to learning more and maybe eventually contributing to the Fossil Forum when I learn more in the future. I have been using the one textbook in the museum dealing with fossils of these sort, where I read about the frills and skull morphology of ceratopsidae: Romer, Alfred S. (1966). Vertebrate Paleontology. The University of Chicago Press.