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Hi everyone! Im new here, I wil soon make an introduction.I have a question. I recently came accros one of these fossils here in the Netherlands from an old private collection. Can anyone tell me about the rarity of this fossil?

From what ive gathered its a set of fossilized leptolepis fish from the Talbragrar fish beds in New South Whales, Australia. Its a fossil site thats been closed for a while now.

Even well known geologists that I know personally were unable to correctly identify this piece, never have they even seen such a thing. My piece is 22cm long (8,5inch), it has 3 small fish on and what appears to be an aquatic plant, fully white. 1 of the fish is whole, measuring about 4cm (1.6inch). 

I read the rules and heard that appraisals are not meant to be done on here.

Any help wil be greatly appreciated.

With kind regards, Sonny

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Cavenderichthys talbragarensis from the Talbragar Fish Beds in NSW Australia. Late Jurassic in age..

 

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    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

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Here is a post from a few years ago about the site:

 

 

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Thank you for this reply fossilguy19 and yoda, first time I have seen other actual people posting their own specimens of my super interesting fossil. Glad you took the time out of your day to help me, this forum is looking great so far :)

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