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From the album: Fossils from the Plattenkalke of the Altmühl Valley
nice and not common fish from Eichstaett, seems to be Ophiopsis (little bit unsure about because of a fin and shape). Lenght is approx. 15 cm-
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When I saw a fish hypural for the first time, I didn't think it was real. But, now, these obscure bones are better known. Who here has a fish hypural to show us? Here's one: "The bony structure (often fan-shaped) that chiefly is composed of the expanded, flattened and partially fused hemal spines (ventral extensions of the vertebrae), and that supports the caudal-fin rays in most bony fishes; when counting vertebrae, this composite element is treated as a single vertebra and included in the count. Amia has 10 hypurals, Salmo 7 but in most teleosts the number is reduced or fused into a single structure, a urostyle."
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The niobrara chalk is the best, But what are the ten best creatures from it.
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From the album: Moscow region Late Jurassic vertebrates
Upper - bony fish, lower - cartilaginous fish. Fili Park, Volgian-Nikitini zone. 2-4 mm -
Good evening folks. I just received a fish fossil from the Cretaceous period of Madagascar that is just listed as a "bony fish". Can anyone put a name to it?
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Bony fish specimens from the Eocene of Virginia
MarcoSr posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
A number of Eocene bony fish specimens from Virginia that I collected and donated to the Smithsonian are described in an article by Dr. Robert E. Weems “ADDITIONS TO THE BONY FISH FAUNA FROM THE EARLY EOCENE NANJEMOY FORMATION OF MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA (U.S.A)” published in The Mosasaur Volume XI June 2020. I collected and donated the following specimens shown in the below figures: 4D thru 4F: 5A, 5C, 5D, 5E: 6A, 6B, 6G, 6H : 7B: 8A, 8B: Marco Sr.
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Hello! Help with ID please if possible. Scale in mm (cm). Western Ukraine, Miocene.
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Hi, everyone, it's been a minute -- I hope y'all are well and that you and your families are healthy and safe. I'm required to say "y'all" since we moved to New Orleans last summer. Fantastic city, great people, but I won't be peeking in the Chesapeake or anyplace else on the East Coast again any time soon. Then, *this* all happened. During this lockdown, it occurred to me that I could finally get around to trying to identify some of the material I've had sitting in boxes for years (and I'll post a few others). But what do I find when I log onto the FF after ages? A positive gaggle of Mazon ID posts. Love it! I collected this little fish in 2010 from the South Unit at Mazonia-Braidwood. He measures a whopping 13mm from nose to tail. I've been poking around on the web but I'm having a hard time with the ID. It looks like he has two spiky fins sticking up from just behind his head (they're clearest in the last photo). My brain itches with knowing that I've seen this guy someplace before, but I just can't find him again. Thoughts? Thanks...y'all.
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Hello Everyone, I had the honor of being invited by @markmg to a trip down into essentially ... a big hole in the ground. Woo Hoo !! A rather large gravel/sand pit that is being mined to 50-60ft ? We were not quite sure but hopefully at least as deep as the dredging that happens on the river. You know .. a play date ! .. haha Well, having just rained out my river trip on Friday I came prepared to slog through some mud. Let's just say it was lucky we didn't have a The Princess Bride (1987) moment because the water made the sand and mud a bit soft in some spots. The open pit has to be constantly pumped out or it would fill up with water and you'd have a nice deep pond ... not so good for a gravel business. Mark had been down in the pit on several occasions and asked that I join him and see if I couldn't help him find anything ... Mark was being brutally teased having previously come out and found - ON THE RAMP- a partial meg tooth. Well, we didn't find any mega-sharks down in the pit, but after exploring for about 90 minutes, the first small hints of the phosphate pebbles we were looking for started showing up. They were washing out of a layer sitting just above an impermeable formation of red compacted clay with shell impressions. Unfortunately the preservation was poor. And very crumbly .. I'm assuming these first finds had been sitting out too long and they were returning to the ground. They were encrusted with precipitated minerals and were delicate. The first hints that maaaaaybe this wasn't a dry hole ?? Some of the encrusted bone that didn't crumble to dust ....
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Hi everyone, I was wondering how one would distinguish the armor skull plates of a gar with some of the osteoderms found on sturgeon. I have definitely found the former but cannot be certain if I've found the prior. From looking at some pictures online I see similarity between the two and wondered if I had any in my collection and if I could properly identify a fossil as sturgeon as opposed to gar.
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Hi Everyone, I suddenly have a work trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota coming up next week and I'd like to get out and collect some fossils along the way. I'm driving from Denver to Lead, SD and will be driving north on HW 85 and 18 through Newcastle. I'd be really happy to get a few stops in along the way and any potential information would really be great. Unfortunately, I won't have a ton of time to be able to stop and really dig, so some road cuts or target formations would be super helpful for surface collecting. I'm open to every type of fossil. I know there's a lot of fossils in that section of the state so I'm looking forward to hopefully finding some decent stuff! Thanks! Caleb
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http://www.newsweek.com/400-million-year-old-ancestor-dinosaurs-humans-and-bony-fish-discovered-954474?piano_t=1
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Can anyone please identify these fossils?
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From the album: Eocene vertebrates of Ukraine
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As the picture shows - I found this fossil 2002 in the afternoon, minutes before I finished work as a gardener - I cleaned the plant areas in Havixbeck - a smalltown at the base of the " Baumberge" in Westfalia - Germany. I lived there for 2 and a half years. In this time I collected there some nice fossils of Campanian age. ....but I never found a fish in the fossil - quarries. They are very rare but since the medieval time known and discriped, then forgotten in the last 200 years there had been found some fishes, nearby less than 100 pieces in the quarries at the Baumberge. Some km far away in Sendenhorst they found fish fossils too. They are very similar to the fossils from Santana Formation in Brasil and the Fossils from Lebanon. Is there anybody who can give the little fish a name?
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I have some Miocene fish fossils found in Pohang basin in Southeast Korea, but I can't determine what names they are. and i will report this google share link that I have. please help me to identify this Korea Miocene fish! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0FD3Y9hYh1bVXFoaVBueFQ2ZVk?usp=sharing thanks
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Hello, bought this in a museum, the lady behind the counter did not know where their fossils came from exactly. The back label said fossil fish chin. Other than the fish ID I am wondering if only the chin is the real fossil and everything else is carved in? I understand it has been painted over. Also, Can any one ID the plant on There? Are the plant fossils real? Any thoughts? Thank you
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I need some help identifying what I think "might" be a mosasaur bone. Also, the skinny, orange items are a mystery as well. I defer to y'alls expertise!
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Hey all, yesterday my wife (CCNHM collections manager Sarah Boessenecker) and I wrote about some of our recent finds from Folly Beach, SC. Collecting fossils there is quite easy, and if you're there for non-shark teeth, there's essentially no competition since that's all anyone ever looks for there. The fossils of Folly Beach have never been written up, and I'm getting more and more curious about them - particularly fossil marine mammals. If anyone finds marine mammal earbones out there, I'm dying to take a look! We've already gotten a nice donation from Ashby Gale, Edisto SP ranger, of a pygmy sperm whale periotic. Here's the blog post with some images of our recent finds - including my first giant armadillo scute (Holmesina), an Alligator osteoderm, various shark and mammal teeth, and a snake vertebra. I've made a plan to go out to Folly once a week this entire semester, since it's only a 15-20 minute drive from College of Charleston (a very nice escape from campus and teaching) http://blogs.cofc.edu/macebrownmuseum/2017/02/03/friday-fossil-feature-it-would-be-folly-to-pass-this-site-up/
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Leptolepis coryphaenoides from the "Unterer Stein" in Holzmaden. Its a rare find but the most common specimen in this area. The fish is about 7 cm long.
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Common fish from the Green River Formation in Wyoming.
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: Fossildude's Purchased/Gift Fossils
My latest acquisition - another few Chinese fish. Lycoptera davidi. Yixian, Liaoning, China, Lower Cretaceous (Aptian)© © 2015 Tim Jones
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Unidentified, Undigested Fish Remains In Cretaceous Coprolites
GeschWhat posted a topic in Fossil ID
I am trying to identify the some bony fish inclusions in coprolites from the Eagle Ford Formation in Texas. Can anyone out there identify fish by vertebrae and scales? I have not been able to find any teeth in them that would help with ID. The first two pictures are from a coil-shaped coprolite that has numerous bony inclusions. I'm assuming the vertebrae (40x) and bony thing that looks like coral (20x) are from the same fish. I forgot to take measurements of this one, but the photos were taken through a microscope. The fancy scale is in a different coprolite and measures about 4 mm x 1.5 mm. The vertebrae in the last picture measures approx. 1.25 mm x 0.75 mm. Thanks for your help!
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