Help With Small Fish Found Inside Rock

[stakks]

Found inside rock need help identifing

[palaeopix]

Sorry stakks, but your not going to get much of an ID from this photo, because it's too blurry! Can you retake the photo?

Dan

[stakks]

Let me try real fast

[stakks]

A better pic

[PetrolPete]

Do you happen to know the age/formation it came from? That could help in IDing it

[stakks]

This is all new to me was fishing wife and kid found some crystals on a big rock so I busted in it fond some really cool stuff

[thanatocoenosis]

It looks painful to swallow

[PetrolPete]

About how large is it? And about where were you when you found it? I might be able to find what age it came from by looking up nearby outcrops.

[stakks]

Its about two inchs long found at lake texoma just found one more. Ib other chunk of rock

[flyguy784]

It's a very curious piece. you should get some better pics up. It'll be fun to see what it could be.

[glacialerratic]

Productid brachiopod in cross section.

[Xiphactinus]

Productid brachiopod in cross section.

Agreed! Good call.

[squalicorax]

Looks like cretaceous rock if it was indeed found around lake texoma. Probably a bivalve cross section. Looks like there is some others mixed in there.

[stakks]

Shud I go get the rest of the rock it pretty big but I don't want to just bust it apart right?

[glacialerratic]

The age of the formation would help narrow down the possibilities.

[fossisle]

Ammonite ribs?

[BobWill]

Ammonite ribs?

Yes, and maybe umbliicus spiral and septa lines.

Age is Cretaceous but since I don't know when Productid brachiopods lived I.m not sure if that helps.

Edited April 22, 2012 by BobWill