BurleyEastCoast Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Hoping for help with the ID of what is believed to be a ocean life fossil in sandstone. My keen 8 year old found this over the weekend along the base of a sandstone bank. General location is Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Welcome to the Forum. Very interesting find. My first reaction was that this looks a bit like some skull plates to a fish. Not sure of that, though. Any chance of some pictures of the opposite side, and the edges of the item? Cropped and rotated: EDIT: @jdp 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...
Rockwood Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Looks like an erosional feature to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Yeah, interesting specimen. I think, it has at least two different "features". Don´t know, which... Franz Bernhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 It might be wise to consider that a salt body is thought to have migrated through/from that general area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdp Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Can you get me some close-ups? I am actually optimistic about this being fish, but I need to see the surface texture better. Where in New Brunswick? Is this near the Albert River or further north? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Some of the sole markings may look similar but I'm not convinced that this one is one of that. " 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...
MrsBurleyEastCoast Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 (edited) Hi there, this was found near St. Andrews NB, about as far south and east as you can go in New Brunswick before you get to Maine. I'm going to try to upload some additional pics. Edited June 7, 2022 by MrsBurleyEastCoast 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Thank you for the new pictures. Unfortunately, ... I'm not seeing the bone structure I would expect to see from fossil fish bones. I think the others may be on the right track with sedimentary structures. Mother Nature can be a real trickster, sometimes. 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...
JohnJ Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 @MrsBurleyEastCoast @BurleyEastCoast Can you get some additional focused photos in natural light? The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 The cross-section side-view makes me wonder whether the patterning is a layer of siderite. This idea could align nicely with the Carboniferous deposits in that region. Siderite can form some pretty weird patterns. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdp Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 5 hours ago, Fossildude19 said: Thank you for the new pictures. Unfortunately, ... I'm not seeing the bone structure I would expect to see from fossil fish bones. I think the others may be on the right track with sedimentary structures. Mother Nature can be a real trickster, sometimes. Unfortunately I have to agree with this. I'm not seeing evidence of bone where I was expecting to (or elsewhere). In addition, those rocks are generally a bit too old to have bony fish fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurleyEastCoast Posted June 8, 2022 Author Share Posted June 8, 2022 Thank you all for the input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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