More Fish Parts Uncovered

[minnbuckeye]

On Nov 2nd, I posted this fish tooth for identification ( Onychodus sigmoides).

 

Since then a few other "fishy" pieces have been uncovered. Does anything ring a bell with you concerning these two unknowns.

 

1. This broken specimen is 2.2 cm in length.

 

 

2. This is 3.9cm long

 

 

 

 

  

 

Edited November 11, 2022 by minnbuckeye

[connorp]

Mike, can you post some in-focus photos of the entire specimens? Hard to understand the specimens from these photos.

[minnbuckeye]

@connorp, It has been so cloudy. I will retake photos when our bright light in the sky returns!

[Misha]

The onychodus specimen is amazing 

 

Do you know what formation this is? It's very interesting stuff

[minnbuckeye]

@Misha, unfortunately, the quarry is only known to be Devonian. No one could tell me what formation existed in it. All I can say is it is FULL of vugs and very little fossils. This is so unlike the Cedar Valley Formation we hunt in a little further to the south, which makes me think it is a Devonian rock younger than the Cedar Valley. A description of the Lime Creek Formation  at the quarries we hunt further south fits what I see. As described, "Only the basal 3 to 8 feet (1-2 m) of the Lime Creek Formation is locally seen at the Conklin and Klein quarries. The Lime Creek strata there are dominated by green-gray silty shale with no apparent fossils or burrows (but these strata contain conodonts of the formation)."

[minnbuckeye]

@connorp, hopefully these pictures help!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now the second specimen:

 

 

 

[minnbuckeye]

With no response in over a month, I thought I would try refreshing this once. 

Edited December 22, 2022 by minnbuckeye

[Fossildude19]

@jdp

[jdp]

Interesting. Which formation is this from?

[jdp]

Oh ok, I missed that above. I'll do some reading and get back to you. Might ask you for some additional photos.