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Fossil Fish from China - Real, Altered or Fake?


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My mom purchased this fish when she was in Taiwan. She's a little suspicious that it has at very least been embellished. I've also attached the label it had. 

 

Thank you for any help! 

 

 

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This looks perfectly real to me.  

 

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Yeah, no red flags except the name I think they meant to spell was Yongeicthys. Cool fish!

"Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;

Wrecked is the ship of pearl!

And every chambered cell,

Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell" :ammonite01:

-From The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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48 minutes ago, yardrockpaleo said:

Yeah, no red flags except the name I think they meant to spell was Yongeicthys. Cool fish!

Actually, it's not. 

It appears to be an alternate spelling of Jianghanichthys hubeiensis

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It was renamed to from Osteochilus in 1977.  (Thanks Scott @piranha )  

 

 

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22 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

Actually, it's not. 

It appears to be an alternate spelling of Jianghanichthys hubeiensis.

It was renamed to Osteochilus in 1977.

 

 

Wow. Thanks for the heads up, that makes more sense.

"Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;

Wrecked is the ship of pearl!

And every chambered cell,

Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell" :ammonite01:

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On 3/4/2021 at 5:52 PM, Fossildude19 said:

It appears to be a poor spelling of Jianghanichthys hubeiensis.

It was renamed to Osteochilus in 1977.

 

"...originally assigned to the extant cyprinid genus Osteochilus, then later to the new genus Jianghanichthys by its original author..."

 

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4 minutes ago, piranha said:

 

"...originally assigned to the extant cyprinid genus Osteochilus, then later to the new genus Jianghanichthys by its original author..."

 

 

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Thanks for the correction, Scott!   :blush:

 

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The Chinese words are "Jiang Han Yu" which translates to "Jianghan fish"

 

So yes, that's a Jianghanichthys :)

Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday!

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