Melinda B Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 I would like best guesses on what this fossil is. It was donated to the NHM with no information or provenance. Maybe it is a fish? Looks bony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 Size? This looks like a fish skull, possibly from a concretion. @oilshale 1 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Ammonite Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 (edited) Welcome to the Forum. What is the NHM? Is Kneeland in Humboldt County, California? EDIT: @Boesse is familiar with many California fossils. @RJB might also know per Boessenecker. Edited December 17, 2021 by DPS Ammonite My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 I think Tim is right - looks like a fish head. But origin and more accurate determination? That will only succeed with a lot of luck if someone happened to have made a similar find. Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Hunter Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 NHM is probably Natural History Museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 10 hours ago, Melinda B said: It was donated to the NHM with no information or provenance. Are you from the NHM? Which one? Isn't there a paleontologist there who might have an idea? Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 3 hours ago, Ludwigia said: Are you from the NHM? Which one? Isn't there a paleontologist there who might have an idea? 11 hours ago, DPS Ammonite said: Welcome to the Forum. What is the NHM? Is Kneeland in Humboldt County, California? 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 Just as a WAG, the matrix looks similar to some of the Santana Formation (Cretaceous, Brazil) fish concretions. I suspect this may be a broken concretion from that source. Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melinda B Posted December 16, 2021 Author Share Posted December 16, 2021 Thanks for the help! Yes NHM is for Natural History Museum. Unfortunately, we do not have a curator or paleontologist but can use faculty at Humboldt State University (soon to be Cal Poly Humboldt) to assist us. Check out our website. We are small but have a fabulous fossil collection. https://natmus.humboldt.edu/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB003 Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Melinda B said: Yes NHM is for Natural History Museum. Unfortunately, we do not have a curator or paleontologist but can use faculty at Humboldt State University (soon to be Cal Poly Humboldt) to assist us. Wish I knew about that when I was out there. I would have stopped by! *Frank* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Do you know who collected it, perhaps? Also, Ron Bushell might still be on here and might have an idea. I've never heard of articulated fish remains from Humboldt Co. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 13 hours ago, Melinda B said: Thanks for the help! Yes NHM is for Natural History Museum. Unfortunately, we do not have a curator or paleontologist but can use faculty at Humboldt State University (soon to be Cal Poly Humboldt) to assist us. Check out our website. We are small but have a fabulous fossil collection. https://natmus.humboldt.edu/ You have a nice fossil collection there! Just want to say that in the "insects" collection acquisition# 834 is misspelled, the correct name for the specimen is Stenophlebia. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleorunner Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 It reminds me of Ecrinesomus Dixoni. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 I know Humboldt County like the back of my hand. Only heard of one fish found in that county. I found it. Wish I would have kept it. The matrix on this fish in this post does not look like any sedimentary rock from humboldt county but i never hunted in Kneeland. I believe there are pieces of the Wild Cat group up there but lots and lots of private land. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 2 hours ago, Paleorunner said: It reminds me of Ecrinesomus Dixoni. I don't think that is a candidate. This preservation is very much like the preservation from Brazil, rather than Madagascar. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melinda B Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 The fossil is definitely NOT from Humboldt Co. It was a donation to the museum. No provenance so we don't know where it was found originally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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