Frank Menser Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Been a while since some good finny fossils were posted, so to celebrate my newest aquisitions; I figured lets see what's new out there. Here are mine. Bothriolepis canadensis 3" Diplurus 4" from NJ. Now lets see yours. Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Hello Frank,Museum scale fossils! just 10 on my gallery ,just to partipate cheers http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php/gallery/album/2325/822-fish/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Cool fish. I particularly like the Prolebias double. Also the Italian sps. haven't any from there yet Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 (edited) Here you go Frank, here is a Diplomystus from Wyoming that I received as a gift. It originally was purchased from the Museum Company at a local strip mall. It was already mounted in the frame when I received it. I haven't taken off the cardboard backing to see what else may be hiding on the reverse side of the slab .One of these days I might be inclined to investigate the piece further. The fish measures 7" in length. Thanks for bringing up this post and causing me to take a closer look at my fish .In the upper right of the photo there is another fish where the dark spot is .I can see with my loupe a string of vertebrae there. I'm not going to attempt to prep this one out though. I have never worked on this type of material before Here is the other fishy... Edited March 17, 2011 by CreekCrawler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Two Leptolepis bronni from the Lower Toarcian Posidonienschiefer of Hildesheim, Germany. 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...
oilshale Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 (edited) and a Kalops monophrys Poplin & Lund, 2002 from the Heath Shale Formation (Lower Carboniferous) of Bear Gulch. Edited March 18, 2011 by oilshale 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...
Darwin Ahoy Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 (edited) Most of my stuff is reptile/dino material, but I have some fish hanging around. Cretaceous shark, from Lebanon, 4.5" Eel with lobster, also from Lebanon. Protosphyraena jaw section with teeth, from the Cretaceous of Kansas. Edited March 17, 2011 by Darwin Ahoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raff Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Hi, this is my small collection of mainly Lebanon fishes, all are common species but i like they Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 (edited) Another palaeoniscoid from the Heath Shale Formation (Lower Carboniferous) of Bear Gulch. No idea what genus. edited April 2014: Seems to be a Kalops diophrys Poplin & Lund, 2002. Thomas Edited April 23, 2014 by oilshale 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...
Raff Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Another palaeoniscoid from the Heath Shale Formation (Lower Carboniferous) of Bear Gulch. No idea what genus. I think Acanthoniscus , for the dorsal fin very posterior in position almost opposite the anal fin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 (edited) My contribution: Ptycholepis marshi skull from the Shuttle Meadow Fm. CT. And another, almost complete one. Regards, Edited March 19, 2011 by Fossildude19 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...
pleecan Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Devonian Fish from Ukraine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 (edited) Too Cool, Peter! B) That's Sweet!!! Thanks for sharing that! Regards, Edit: Any idea on which ostracoderm? Pteraspididae? Edited March 20, 2011 by Fossildude19 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...
pleecan Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Too Cool, Peter! B) That's Sweet!!! Thanks for sharing that! Regards, Edit: Any idea on which ostracoderm? Pteraspididae? Hi Tim: Thanks... It is a Devonain Pteraspidiformes.... think it is Pteraspidadae family from Ukraine ... Ebay special from Italy dealer. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 (edited) Hi Tim: Thanks... It is a Devonain Pteraspidiformes.... think it is Pteraspidadae family from Ukraine ... Ebay special from Italy dealer. Peter Great stuff. Keep em coming!!! Edited March 20, 2011 by Frank Menser Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Nice Whiteia from Madagascar. Here is my new one, 7 inches. One of the largest I have seen. -PzF Fabulous fossil fish PzF ... the coloration is amazing !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 21, 2011 Author Share Posted March 21, 2011 Nice Whiteia from Madagascar. Here is my new one, 7 inches. One of the largest I have seen. -PzF Wow. Sure beats my 5" pair Pleecan. I think what you have there is Podolaspis. Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Great Thread Frank.... thanks everyone for posting those great fish fossils! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old dead things Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Yes, I also posted this photo under "show us your Babys (babies)", but thought I'd put it here too. I collected this juvenile priscacara at Warfield quarry last summer. The wife puts the juveniles we find in pendants. I've always enjoyed collecting the juveniles, somewhere in the piles of fish in the shop I have some juvenile notogonus, I'll see if I can find one and post it too. Jim Old Dead Things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diplotomodon Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 (edited) Very nice fishies everyone! I have a Knightia from Green River Formation WY. Hmm, pic's not loading. Will get it up soon. Edited March 23, 2011 by Crimsonraptor What a wonderful menagerie! Who would believe that such as register lay buried in the strata? To open the leaves, to unroll the papyrus, has been an intensely interesting though difficult work, having all the excitement and marvelous development of a romance. And yet the volume is only partly read. Many a new page I fancy will yet be opened. -- Edward Hitchcock, 1858 Formerly known on the forum as Crimsonraptor @Diplotomodon on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieFossilHunter Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 (edited) Great stuff! Thought I'd help along. Like the Palaeoniscoids oilshale! I've attached a little fish called Cleithrolepis. It's from the Triassic of the Sydney Basin. Little guy is 3 inches. Edited March 25, 2011 by AussieFossilHunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave pom Allen Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 I cant remember if i have shown this fish before its from the miocene here in New Zealand i found it a couple of years ago all the fish people that have seen it havnt seen anything like it before and is my favorite osteichthyes find so far Its an Unidentified Ostraciidae possible "Lactoria cornuta" with stunning hexagonal detail of the skin texture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeman Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Here is a fish plate I picked up at auction, with no info. But I could not help my self, I had never seen this many fish in plate before ...WOW! Troy Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Great stuff! Thought I'd help along. Like the Palaeoniscoids oilshale! I've attached a little fish called Cleithrolepis. It's from the Triassic of the Sydney Basin. Little guy is 3 inches. I know this post is almost a year old, but..... wow! Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boneman007 Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Here's a few skulls of some of my fishies from the Niobrara of Western Kansas One picture contains a Saurodon leanus skull as well as Pachyrhizodus minimus jaws, and the other contains my Xiphactinus skull on a 4' X 4' slab with a Gillicus arcuatus skull sitting on the lower left corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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