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I found this amazing fossil Caturus furcatus while wandering the google formation. The price is right, jaws are full of teeth, skin has a nice texture. Everything checks out. I just wanted to know if anyone with greater Solnhoffen fish knowledge can spot something that I can't. As stated the fish is from solnhoffen and the length is exactly 6 inches.
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Hello. I'm currently working on a basilosaurus sketch as a project. The sketch is based off of Basilosaurus cetoides. I wanted to add a few fish to liven up the whole drawing, but I'm not familiar with late Eocene fish from the U.S. east coast. Would anyone be able to help me out?
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I need the collective help of the TFF community on some identifications. I received a lot of a few fossils to prep and some have no identification. The first is this fish. The skull makes me think gar, but there are no scales. The body seems to have dermal denticles like a shark. This one has me stumped. It is in a thin, layered, limestone of unknown origin.
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Please could anyone suggest what this is? I'm assuming fish, with little (less than 1mm) white spherules that might be teeth or denticles. From the Jet Rock (Mulgrave Shale Member) - a Lower Jurassic, Toarcian shale at least partly deposited in anoxic waters. Near Whitby, Yorkshire, UK. (Acquired in an auction as an extra with another fossil that I really wanted so I'm just curious really, I know little about fish!)
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Does anyone have a good resource about Lebanese fish fossils from Hakel? I have some I would like to learn more about. Looking for images and citations to beef up my catalog info on them. Thanks in advance all!
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Concretion fish from Jiangsu
Crazyhen posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
This fish is 14cm long from Jiangsu. Any idea what species it is?
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I have bulk sampled many times at the Lost Creek Reservoir in Jacksboro, TX, which is Pennsylvanian material. After dissolving a rock from the Jacksboro Limestone, I found what looks like a fish tooth that is 1.1mm long. In fact, it closely resembles some of the palaeoniscoid fish teeth that I have found in the Permian. Since it is the only one that I have ever found at Jacksboro, there is a chance that it could have somehow been transferred there. Or, although I try to thoroughly clean my screens after each use, I guess there is the chance of cross contamination. I have used those screens to sort through Permian material recently. My question is, has anyone ever found a fish tooth at Jacksboro? If so, does it look like the attached picture? Thanks for any help.
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Hello! I'm super happy because I just finished my first self-prepared fossil fish! My original thought was Diplomystus, but as I finished the prep job I became suspicious it was a Knightia, possibly K. alta. just wanted to know if anyone could help me with the ID, and any help would be greatly appreciated!
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@oilshale, any idea what species is this Madagascar fish? Only this half of the module is available, and it’s broken.
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Is this a Guizhouniscus microlepidus? Thanks!
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My ammonite mailbox project is moving along swiftly now. I dug the hole for the slab the other weekend, called 811 after wife squawked at me for not calling utilities first (oops!), and waited a couple days until they marked lines in my yard. On Saturday I poured 560 lbs of hand mixed concrete over a bed of gravel and rebar, then yesterday I mortared all the cinder blocks in place. Now for the cool part. Today on lunch hour I went out shopping for 500 lbs of flagstone to skin the superstructure.. Then serendipity struck just after I asked the worker“¿Ha visto Ud. algunas piedras con fosiles como amonites of huesos?” He pointed out some Inoceramus fragments, then I glanced at another pallet of stone, flipped the first piece, and was surprised to see a good portion of a fossil fish, partly articulated, and surrounded by a scattering of disarticulated scales and vertebrae. Of couse I flipped 20-30 more stones, but stopped short of tearing up their nicely organized pallet. Now the best part for a “tacaño viejo” like me....$.15 per pound x 6 pounds - 10% military discount (thanks to my wife) = the price is right @ $.81! I asked where they got this Coyote Canyon limestone, but the guy answered with a confidence uninspiring “Arizona or Montana”. This stuff wasn’t laminated paper thin like the Green River stuff I’ve mined. Not sure if the Green River has any layers with suitable integrity for outdoor applications, but I’ll stay open minded to that possibility, although I’m hoping for something different. I may never be able to ID the fish or the source, but I always keep a couple shekels around for opportunities such as this.
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Hi all, my wife found this impressive vertebra on the beach at Walton-on-the-Naze this morning. Apart from it being from a bony fish, is there any way of narrowing down the species? It is from the London Clay deposits (Ypresian / early Eocene).
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Hello everyone, I was yesterday at the only open-pit chalk mine in Poland - called Mielnik and I need help with identifying these Cretaceous fossils First pieces of some shells: Then tiny pieces of .... ? The larger piece is 1 cm long
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Is this a fish scale? It was found in the Woodbine formation south of Denton, TX. I am new to microfossils. It may also be a small clam.
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Hi I recently joined this forum and I need help to identify what type of fish fossil. My dad gave it to me several years ago and don't really know much about it so can someone identify it
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Any ideas folks? Kem kem matrix. Cube is 1cm3 @LordTrilobite @Troodon @Tidgy's Dad
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I have a jaw I'm considering and it's labeled as Saurocephalus lanciformis. But after doing some research I found Saurodon to be almost the same fish. What would be the best way to label this jaw?
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I just wanted to post something that is not very pretty but is something thing that is harder to find now in the Mazon Creek Fauna- a fish, possibly Elonichthys peltigerus. I posted it earlier in an on going post titled “ Sometimes You Have To Whack It”, in that thread, I daily posts fossils (Mazon Creek) that I have opened that day. Today I opened a concretion that has been sitting in one of my buckets for the last 15 years. A slight strike of my hammer did some real damage to this concretion which shattered upon impact. I put together the pieces that I could and was still happy with the results. The shattering does not normally happen, but some of the time you get a concretion that will do just that. Hopefully tomorrow I will have better luck, as I will continue to use my hammer.
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ok so I have in question a piece from my friend he identified as fish however i thought differently so hence forth i ask you fine people, with vastly greater knowledge than I have. Bony fish head (Actinopterygians, ray finfish) Middle Cretaceous (between 125 and 86 Ma). Goulmima, Morocco Length
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This fish is from Guizhou. Is it an Asialepidotus shingyensis?
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Is this fossil shark real?
dontom posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Is this real or just caved and painted? If it is real how much of it looks real and how much of it looks fabricated. Does the i.d. Seem to be correct? Thanks for any help.
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I was wondering if anyone knew the identification of this fish, and if it is a genuine fossil?
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Hi everyone. Saw this fossil online being labelled as fish or reptile fossil. Very cool and interesting piece but I can’t really see what It could be... I don’t think it is a fish fossil. It is 22cm and weighs just over 1kg. I have no location... sorry. On the 4th picture there is some kind of bone or scale material, don’t really know... What to you think? Anything helps. Thanks! kind regards
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I found this little guy that's labeled as a Martinichthys rostrum, its 2.4" long and was retrieved from the Niobrara formation. But I'm not 100% sure on the ID, mainly because I know little to nothing about Niobrara fish (but I'm learning something new every day!). Is this an accurate ID? Help would be greatly appreciated!
