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Is This A Fish?


MartianColony

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Let me start by saying that I am in no way a professional fossil hunter, nor do I have any kind of training or education of the matter. That being said I like to collect rocks and fossils that I find on the ground. My question is the following: Is this a fossil, and if so what is it? I see what looks to me like a head, and that head looks something like a fish. I found it walking around my neighborhood here in Albuquerque, we have river rock along some walkways. As for the size, I can cover up the black part with an American quarter; so that's 0.955 in. or 24.25 mm. Sorry if the picture quality is bad, I took it on my phone. Any ideas?

 

Also I'm new to this forum, I joined today because I have some rocks I suspect to be fossils that I was looking to share. Thank you to all who choose to comment.

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Welcome to the Forum. :)

 

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, ... but it's not a fish.

I think you have a piece of very coarse grained sandstone, with mineral staining in it. 

I see no scales evident, no bones, no true fish shape to the colored area. 

We look forward to helping you identify your items. :) 

Regards, 

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No worries, bad news is a learning opportunity :D, like I said I'm new at this.

 

The part that looked to me like a fish is the upper right part of the stain, it appears to look like a head and have an eye hole. The rest of it does look like just a random stain as you said. It's probably just my untrained brain finding patterns that aren't really there. :P

 

I'll be posting other suspected fossils today. Thanks!

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