Placoderm material from New York?

[cameronsfossilcollection]

Found this nice slate blue piece in my recent trip to Western New York. What do you guys think? The piece isn’t very big, maybe half an inch - but it looks relatively thick, maybe a centimeter and a half?

[Petalodus12]

I’d say that it’s probably placoderm. Geologic setting?

[cameronsfossilcollection]

16 minutes ago, Petalodus12 said:

I’d say that it’s probably placoderm. Geologic setting?

I can’t believe I blanked on including anything. Sorry! I found it in some pyrite beds in the Upper Hamilton Group at Fall Brook Falls. 

[Nautiloid]

Looks like placoderm to me too. Super awesome find!

[cameronsfossilcollection]

47 minutes ago, Nautiloid said:

Looks like placoderm to me too. Super awesome find!

Wooo! That’s great news  messaged a couple professionals as well, will be interesting to see what they say. There’s also definitely more material underneath the rock, if only I could get to it....

[connorp]

Nice find! Always exciting to find fish material in the Devonian.

[EMP]

On 7/1/2020 at 8:01 PM, cameronsfossilcollection said:

Found this nice slate blue piece in my recent trip to Western New York. What do you guys think? The piece isn’t very big, maybe half an inch - but it looks relatively thick, maybe a centimeter and a half?

 

   

 

I agree with the others. It looks very similar to fish fossils I've found in Devonian rocks near me.