Fish bone from Ymuiden

[Max-fossils]

Hi all,

 

Picked this fossil up at the fossil fair Ede last weekend, and I have no clue what it is. The paper that came with it said (in Dutch): "cleitrum / schelvisachtige" and apparently it's from the very early Holocene, and it was found in Ymuiden (NL). Doing a quick Google translate, I got as a translation: cleithrum / haddock-like. Those were new words to me, so I googled them and saw that a cleithrum is part of the skeleton of bony fish (though I still don't know where), and that a haddock is a kind of fish. So now I ask you, what exactly is it? And where in the fish would it have been?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Max

[AshHendrick]

I'm fairly new to fossil learning , but I believe the cleithrum bone is one that runs vertically with the scalpula on bony fish. Haddock fish are part of the Cod family, Gadidae to my understanding (read a lot about thes types of bones being found in archaeological sites and stuff when I was studying anthropology in school) - but that is modern fish in my statement - I wouldn't know about fossil fish remaining in that category, so I'm interested in what answer you get from those with the great knowledge, as well!