Marcus B Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 My father and I just got back from a fossil hunting trip to Alpena and found this in Rockport quarry. We are thinking it might be a fish scale but we really have no clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 That reminds me of some Placoderm armor! "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...
caldigger Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Could you provide some sort of method to show scale (size) of your find. A ruler or coin placed beside it perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus B Posted July 26, 2015 Author Share Posted July 26, 2015 (edited) Hopefully this will hope with the id let me know if there are any other angles you would like to see it from. Edited July 26, 2015 by Marcus B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eocenecarnage Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 I was on a fossil hunting trip in Canon City, CO and I found something which looks similar to that. It was a tiny blueish-gray scale for a jawless fish (possibly Eriptychus). My fossil was found in the Ordovician age Harding Sandstone. When viewed by the naked eye it had some kinds kinda like yours, but under the microscope it had some ridges and pockmarks. Does yours have any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus B Posted July 27, 2015 Author Share Posted July 27, 2015 It does have ridges in it that's one of the reasons I thought it might be a scale and thanks for the input as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crinus Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 It is definitely Placoderm armor. Name is Protitanichthys rockportensis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus B Posted July 28, 2015 Author Share Posted July 28, 2015 Oh that's awesome thank you all for the help it's my first one and I am very excited to have an id for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 (edited) Hard to tell from the picture,but for me looks more like Holonema sp. Edited July 29, 2015 by abyssunder " 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...
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