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My First Vertebrate from the Florissant Fossil Beds
Opabinia Blues posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hi all, Last weekend I took a trip, again, to the Florissant Fossil Quarry. The quarry doesn’t normally open until Memorial Day, but I went with the Colorado State University entomology club. I successfully lobbied for the club to take a field trip there, and the club got the trip funded by the student’s association so we got to go in as a by-appointment special group for “free” (at least for us). Perhaps this whole process is a story I’ll tell another time. Anyway, for those not familiar in the upper Eocene Florissant Formation fossils of insects and plants are highly abundant, but fossils of vertebrates are exceptionally rare. This is despite being a superficially similar depositional environment to the Green River Formation, where fish fossils are abundant. Well, after countless total hours of splitting in the quarry over the years I’ve finally come across a vertebrate fossil - the head of a teleost fish! This is exciting simply because fish fossils are very rare in this rock unit. The shale breaking split the fossil, so presumably the body is still out in the quarry somewhere. There are of course fish described from Florissant, but I’m not familiar with them. The only identification I can readily make is teleost. Thought I’d share a rare find! My “white whale” for the Florissant Formation is still a spider fossil. There were three spiders found by entomology club participants, but of course I was not one of them. Of course I’d find the way more rare thing, but not the thing I wanted 😀
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Well, I’m finally getting to dig into my truckload of fossils from my Wyoming trip with @RJB so it’s my turn to open up a prep thread. I spent a couple hours today poking around to find the perfect fish to start with. The 18” layer never disappoints. This good sized Diplomystus has 2 Knightia on top of it. I’m going to try to save both but I’m concerned that the right hand one is covering most of the Diplo’s skull. If that’s the case, the little guy will have to go! This is after about 90 minutes of scribe work.
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Hello, I would like to buy this fish, but the seller does not know where it comes from, and does not know the species, can you help me, it measures 15 cm, sorry I do not speak English well
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I had recently made a visit to Besom Hill, Old Ham, Manchester, UK for the spectacular remains of carboniferous fossils such as calamities, gastrioceras, and many more. Although I found some strange impressions in the shales (Listeri Marine band) and wished to get some idea on what it might be. It appears as an impression on the dark shale, has a sort of 3D impression on bottom and top. The pattern is lines radiating in a parallel manner, with slight but observable curvature. Surface is not flat, rather slightly wavy. First impression was possibly burrows, but probably not. Would it be some sort of shell or plant impression instead? Another specimen follows along as a cylinder.
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Hey y'all! I'll be staying in Salt Lake City for two and a half weeks from Mid May to the end of May. I was hoping to see if any of y'all knew of any private tours/quarries that would be open during that time. I'm looking for fossil fish and trilobites mostly, so if anyone knows of any trilobites aside from U-Dig that would be appreciated too. I recall going on a private digs when I was younger that was not affiliated with any of the big names (with permission from the landowner of course) - hoping to find something similar. Calling all people that "know a guy" - thanks!
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Found on the coast of Hilton Head South Carolina USA. I am quite unsure of what this is, it’s very eroded and might ether be unidentifiable, or just a funny looking rock. However, I find it looks very tooth like, with one wide end, and one pointy end, as well as a cavity that is open at the wide end and gently tracks further into the “tooth” My first thought was a premolar of some sort of primitive whale sans the roots. But that seems unlikely. Please share your thoughts! I’d love any sort input and if you would like a better picture of a certain angle, let me know! Here are the pictures 1. Front side 2.Back side 3.Right side 4.left side 5.Top side 6.Bottom side And here is a video of the specimen rotating! (ignore the sparkling putty, it was the only option I had to get it to sand up nice while still being visible at all angles) IMG_0199.mov
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I recently found this bone on the Kaw River but I can't seem to be able to id it. All I know is that it looks marine. Thank you all for the help!
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossil Finds: Fish
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossil Finds: Fish
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossil Finds: Fish
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The specimen was listed as a hatchet fish, however it looks more like a lantern fish to me. It was from an old collection. Age: Puente Formation, Miocene Location: California, Los Angeles, USA
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From the album: Jurassic Coast UK Oxford Clay Formation
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Please help me to identify this fossil. Found in small river in mountain in West Java, Indonesia I dont know what kind of animal of this fossil & what's part? I think it's a fish skull. but what species? This fossil found together with megalodon tooth& crab fossil. Your answer is very meaningful to me. Thank you so much.
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Found in glacial deposits E Kansas. Originally I (naively) thought this was a shark dorsal fin spine- after a few minutes of research I found I was mistaken So, I now (fairly confidently) am believing this is a fish pectoral fin spine. I'm no expert on fish material, but one guess of mine is this is some sort of Catfish spine... but I don't know what other fish have pectoral fin spines. Any thoughts? As always, thank you- I appreciate the help Side note: used Paraloid B-72 to painstakingly piece back together Here is a in-situ shot (river gravel bed):
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Found on a beach near Petosky, Michigan
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I have many different types of fossils. I am so new to fossils so I am requesting help identifying a few of these finds. All of these were found in El Paso County, Colorado.
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Xyne grex (Extinct Herring Relative) - Jalama Beach in Southern California
ezeemonee posted a topic in Member Collections
Found some nice Miocene period fish fossils in 2020. They have been ID'ed as Xyne grex (Extinct Herring Relative) but other and larger fish species fossils as well as shark teeth have been found there too. There is some Great info on this site here!: https://www.nautiloid.net/fossils/sites/jalama/jalama.html
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Hi all! I made a journey down to Point A Dam today (despite high river levels) just to shuffle about. I came across these two vertebra, the smallest of which is clearly a fish, but I’m not quite sure what the other is. Cetacean? If you have any info on either, please share. Thank you! P.S. I somehow never have a ruler with me so I used the lines of a college ruled notebook, which are separated by 7.1 mm, as a makeshift scale. I apologize for this. 1: 2:
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Hi all Grateful for any ideas on this. Found at Aust cliffs, Westbury Bone Formation. Assumed to be a fish (poss reptile) jaw bone. My working assumption is it is either Gyrolepis albertii or Severnichthys acuminatus or one of the (six?) other bony fish taxa from this part of the world. Have quite a few other bits to ID soon too! I hope the images line up. The teeth get smaller as the rock, and bone, narrows, and line up where the rock has broken [due to falling from the cliff - not me!]. The appear to curve inwards. To me they look more Gyrolepis but I have never handled a jaw bone from the fish here so not too sure. Bone seems quite thick to me. Thank you, Ashley
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From the album: Neutache Shoreline
3/11/2024 Thanks to @Al Dente for pointing out that is in fact a bony fish vertebra, not a lamnoid shark vert.© CC BY-NC
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I believe these to be fish vertebrae, they were found on the north sulphur river near Ladonia, TX at various times. I'm curious if anyone may have a thought about what type of fish these might have belonged to, (I know that is a stretch) and if in fact they are fish vertebrae? Also I have several chunks of these like the piece on the right. I'm not sure what the substance is that they are matrixed in. I'm curious does anyone know what the concretion is made of, and is there a way to remove it without damaging the underlying fossil? Thanks again for your time.
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Can someone help me identify this fossil please? It wasn't dads and I know he said something about the Green River Formation I'm just not sure what kind of fish there are on it.
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Hi TFF friends, Just to show you my latest find. Himenoura lower formation Late cretaceous, santonian Amakusa, japan Height: 9mm I think it might be an Enchodus tooth. There are occurrences of Enchodus sp. from the scientific litterature and saw some of the fossils, however as those teeth are poorly preserved, I am not sure at 100%. It has one notch like structure at the apex, one carina on the proximal edge with very well preserved serrations from the apex to the base of the tooth. The distal edge is round. Fine striations are running all over the crown from the base to the apex.
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From the album: Texas Permian Fossil Finds
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