RJB Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 This has got to be one of the coolest fossils ive ever seen!!! If only I could have prepped it!!! Just WOW!!!! RB Click here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traviscounty Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 I'm getting an error when I try to view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traviscounty Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Ummmm.....yeah, now my curiosity is heightening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmorefossil Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 travis i think that the fossil is so amazingly awesome that its to good for the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 Well snarge!! Let me try this again. Jesus!!! RB http://www.steinkern.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=55554#55554 click here I have no idea what Im doing??? I appologize RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fig rocks Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 That is one elusive fossil!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 I am truly sorry fellas. Copy and paste the link above. It worked for me. Thats the best i can do? RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traviscounty Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 I guess "life-changing" fossils are worth the wait. Reminds me of the old Heinz ketchup commercial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 Ok, if youve ever felt like an idiot, thats how I feel right now!!! How in the GD double toothpicks do you post a link!!! Im sure any 3rd grader can do it, but I sure cant!!! and what a fossil moment ive destroyed for myself!!! if I had a 2x4 near by I would use it on myself!!!! RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 rjb's favorite (scroll down once you hit the link) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 rjb's favorite(scroll down once you hit the link) You are now my new Hero man!!! "Super Duper Tracer" to the rescue. thanks a ton. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 I agree that is one awesome fossil.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was worth the wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traviscounty Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 You don't already have one of those? I haven't even been picking them up lately. Seriously, that is pretty cool! Never seen that before. Is it authentic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 that is flippin awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Check out the teeth on that sucker! -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pool Man Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Did you notice a lower tooth looks like it went the through the smaller fishes fin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpbowden Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Very nice fossils, just plain nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 I wonder why there are so many fossils of fish choking on other fish? Is it just that you remember these more, or they are more photographed? With the low odds of becoming a fossil in the first place, added to the low odds of a fish choking to death (I've never seen a modern fish dead that way) I just wonder why there have been so many fossilized like that? For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brachiomyback Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 That is one awesome fossil! I've personally seen a largemouth bass and a northern pike dead from asperation (floaters). It may have been more prevalent back "then" because fish were more bony and had bonier fins. If anyone is familiar with the pectoral fin of a catfish you know they have barb bone in it. If you "pet" it like a cat (towards the tail) the barb easily goes down. Pet it backwards (towards the head) the barb becomes locked up; hence if is in a fish's throat... it becomes lodged.... fish can't breath.... fish dies. I believe that fish related to the Coelacanth..... the rare Seelacan't swallowit - Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eureka Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Just a killer specimen!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa dino Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 I will have to drink to that I still just get erroowr mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoDirect Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 I wonder why there are so many fossils of fish choking on other fish? Is it just that you remember these more, or they are more photographed? With the low odds of becoming a fossil in the first place, added to the low odds of a fish choking to death (I've never seen a modern fish dead that way) I just wonder why there have been so many fossilized like that? My guess would be that unlike today where you have normal daily life events not producing so much of these deaths, back at these times, there were catastrophic events that made these fossil deposits. Most notably with fish choking on one another are the Eocene deposits in the Green River FM, Wyoming. This fossil from Santana is REALLY rare. The first I have seen of such a type. What I think could have happened to cause this where you see so many in Green River is that lakes might have dried up or become filled by environmental forces and become smaller and smaller rapidly, forcing predator and prey to be close together. In that moment, they start to feed on one another before finally becoming buried with the whole lot of them. Just my take on it .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megaselachus13 Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 Incredible specimen. Another one from same location at this link http://www.geoforum.fr/index.php?showtopic...=Christie's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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