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Hi all I was given last week a little set of small fossil . A real pic n mix. They was given too me by an lady in the village , she found the teeth to be creepy. They was her uncle who sadly passed. I think they are sharks teeth, a fish tail bone and unknown fish , some different dinosaurs teeth? Unknown bones and a really cool trilobite. Any help with IDs. Her uncle did travel a lot in Africa. Thank everyone kind regards Bobby
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I split this tiny fish out of my coal supply. This Microhaplolepis serrata is 100% complete at a mere 23 mm. The Fish is Mid-Pennsylvanian in age. The Cannel Coal is so paper thin I needed to mount it on stiff cardboard to handle. I haven't posted Linton material in a long time. I never seem to grow tired of discovering these little guys. Here are pictures taken in different lighting conditions. Here are some technical drawings of this and related species.
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Braincase of a bony fish.
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I'm working on some Green River stuff for @abctriplets that they collected on their fossil extravaganza! Thus fish is turning out to be a real gem. This is how the piece arrived in Texas. EDIT: 1st two photos courtesy of Jared. I applied copious amounts of Paleobond to both surfaces and clamped them together for several days, marking the location and direction of the fish so I don't forget. Then I went on the attack. The fish layer was about 3/4" below the surface so I used a small chisel and knocked about 1/2" off the top of the slab to reduce the depth. Then comes the CP9361for fast bulk matrix removal, being careful not to hit the fish. There is a very slight color change (darkening) to the matrix immediately before you expose the fish. Once I saw that, I switched to the Micro Jack knowing that the fish is anxiously waiting to fall apart just below the surface! These fish are extremely brittle so I'm stopping every 30 seconds or so to consolidate. Scribe, consolidate, repeat... 2 hours later and here's where it sits. I believe this is a Mioplosus sp. and it looks like it will be complete. You can see the glue where the break ran across the skull and down the body.
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Hello. I found this amongst a bunch of Devonian/Mississippian age limestone. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the rock is fossiliferous limestone. These two very odd shapes, one black, one white, I thought could perhaps be the gill structures of something like a Placoderm, Acanthodian, or Ostracoderm. I know it's kind of a tough ID. Any input is appreciated. Thanks.
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Identifying Paleoniscoid Fishes From Linton Ohio, Upper Pennsylvanian
dshamilla posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
If you have ever collected fish from the classic vertebrate locality near Linton, Ohio or have obtained fish specimens from there, I would like to share some of what I have learned about the type of fish called paleoniscoids (also spelled palaeoniscoids) that occur there. Paleoniscoid fish have thick, rhomboidal scales made of dentine-type bone with a surface of hard enamel-like material called ganoin and on the external surface of the ganoin there are pits and fine canals. They resemble (body-wise) what most people think of commonly as a “fish-shape” except they have “armor-like” scales. They are set apart from the chondrichthyans (sharks), the dipnoans (lungfish) and the coelacanths, which also occur in the Linton cannel. The Linton paleoniscoids can be divided into two family groups, the elonichthyids (1 species) and the haplolepids (6 species). I’ve attached a pdf file called “1. Identifying Linton Paleoniscoid Fish” which describes the fishes for species identification. I tried to keep the terminology minimal, but to describe the differences some was necessary. To aid in identifying haplolepid species, I have put together an illustration called “Linton Haplolepids”. The accompanying jpegs show the illustration and most of the different paleoniscoid types. Because I no longer have any specimens (see pdf file: “2. My Linton Collection and Recollections”), I cannot provide photos of two of the species. I hope this information will be useful and bring about more interest in learning about and collecting in coal measure deposits wherever they occur. 1a Identifying Linton Paleoniscoid Fish.pdf 2 My Linton Collection and Recollections.pdf
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Now that the eclipse shenanigans are over (until January when we have a lunar eclipse) it's time to get back to work. I have several projects starting up at once that I plan to rotate time on. The first is a large fish from south Texas that belongs to @StevenJDennis. He sure has a rock thumb! We have yet to 100% identify it and it needs the puzzle pieces put back together but it looks a lot like a Bananogmius but it appears to have a short fan-like dorsal fin anterior to the large sail-like dorsal fin you would expect in Bananogmius or Pentanogmius. The only thing missing from this specimen is the caudal fin. The worst part about this specimen is the matrix. It's so hard my CP9361 has to work to take this stuff off. I need @RJB's Mighty Jack!!
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I found this skull on sunday, august 2017, off the shore of Maryland in the atlantic ocean. Im not quite sure on what it is can someone help me out?
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From the album: North Africa
Given to me as a gift, this is Rhynchodercetis from the Kem Kem beds of Morocco; possibly R. yovanovitchi, although I cannot make a definitive identification. The specimen is complete, although the state of preservation is not superb; the skull, vertebra,ribs, and rays in the fins are all visible, but not in fine detail. -
As I found this yesterday,I thought that is a fish or fish fragments in the matrix,now when I cleaned little bit more it looks like a lizard ,I'm no expert in this so I'm asking for little help.
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Today I have been to my fossil grounds in Popovac and I have find so many interesting stuff,I think that I found a lot of fish bones and fragments,I'll post pics now so help is definitely needed for ID Guys,sorry for the bad zoom on camera...
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Hello! I have many pieces of fossilized fish elements,mostly skull elements and i have found them yesterday at Popovac Marl stone mine. They're 14m years old.I would love to trade them for all other kinds of fossils If anybody is interested in this,send me PM ! Regards
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From the album: Holzmaden
A 8 cm long remain of a Dapedium commune from the lower Jurassic of Holzmaden. This is a gift from my friend ! More detailed picture: -
From the album: In-Situ Shots(various locations)
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I have no idea. Found in North Charleston, SC in a recently dug pond. Any ideas?
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So a family member of mine found a large bolder in an area that has been known for having some fossils of fish and tracks. It doesn't look like anything but the patterns are odd enough where I can't determine if they are fossils or just mineral marks. Any help is appreciated!
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Hot long NSR trip. My legs are sore lol. Nice variety today including attached verts, bison tooth, mosasaur verts, multiple fish jaw sections, turtle shell, gastropods etc.
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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Bandringa rayi or Bandringa herdinae? Brand new to site - thanks in advance for any assistance here.
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Hi all, I found this really weird thing two days ago on the Zandmotor (Netherlands). I think it's some kind of fish tooth, because (even though they don't look like each other) I think it might have had the same function as the Eotrigonodon fish teeth. Most of the fossils from the Zandmotor are Pleistocene, but sometime Eocene fossils show up (such as shark teeth). So it could be either. The thing is 3 mm long. Anyways, do you also agree with fish tooth? If yes, any clue on the species? Thanks in advance, Max
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Leap onto land saves fish from being eaten University of New South Wales, March 14, 2017 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170314111116.htm "Fish on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga have evolved the ability to survive out of water and leap about on the rocky shoreline..." The paper is: Ord, T.J., Summers, T.C., Noble, M.M. and Fulton, C.J., 2017. Ecological Release from Aquatic Predation Is Associated with the Emergence of Marine Blenny Fishes onto Land. The American Naturalist, 189(5), pp.000-000. Abstract: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691155 PDF file: http://www.eerc.unsw.edu.au/ord/ord_etal2017.pdf Yours, Paul H.
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