Some cool fish Scales I found in Missouri when cracking open calcium phosphate nodules

[Samurai 25]

Hello! I was recently opening my Muncie Creek Shale nodules and this beautiful collection of scales and bone fragments came out! I believe it is fish regurgitation. 

 

Location: Missouri

Time period: Pennsylvanian 

Formation: Muncie Creek Shale

 

 the middle scale is roughly 9mm long!

 

other half of the concretion Outer view of the Concretion and size reference

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images in their natural size (not compressed)

https://imgur.com/a/pWKw9Vk

[SWMOnaturalist 2]

Great pictures,