What is this?

[Fossildude19]

1 hour ago, Mioplosus_Lover24 said:

I believe this to be a perchoid fish from an Eocene site in China, I read a paper on the site and the fish there are currently undescribed, and I will try to find the paper on it! I believe these come a site that starts with an H? This fish looks almost identical to the ones I've seen from that site,with dorsal and pectoral spines.

The paper Oilshale posted talked about Hunan Province. The fish noted in that paper (Tungtingichthys) seem to have a larger dorsal fin than the OP's fish.

Any chance of finding the paper you are talking about? 

 

[doushantuo]

Pure conjecture,purely based on Mioplosus's remark:

Huashancyprinus

provided the fossil really IS from China

 

[Fossildude19]

41 minutes ago, doushantuo said:

Pure conjecture,purely based on Mioplosus's remark:

Huashancyprinus

provided the fossil really IS from China

Thanks for that, Ben.   

I think the first dorsal spine is much too large on the chinese fish for the OP's fish to be Huashancyprinus. 

 

LINK

 

[Mioplosus_Lover24]

1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said:

The paper Oilshale posted talked about Hunan Province. The fish noted in that paper (Tungtingichthys) seem to have a larger dorsal fin than the OP's fish.

Any chance of finding the paper you are talking about? 

 

Haha that was what I was talking about! You can see the almost identical resemblance between this fish and the Tungtingichthys #2, There could be difference in the size of dorsal fins as that is not all that uncommon amongst fish, and it could also be the fish isn't full prepped.

[Fossildude19]

2 hours ago, Mioplosus_Lover24 said:

Haha that was what I was talking about! You can see the almost identical resemblance between this fish and the Tungtingichthys #2, There could be difference in the size of dorsal fins as that is not all that uncommon amongst fish, and it could also be the fish isn't full prepped.

 

They do all look rather similar.  I'm gonna stick with the Dapalis ID, though.