Meggitymegs Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Hello all! Recently I was given this fossil, and I have no idea what it is or where it came from. Wondering if you guys could help a non-expert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 It is a rhacolepis from the lower Cretaceous Santana formation in Brazil. Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Agreed. Rhacolepis buccalis from Brazil. Nice fossil, despite missing the tail and fins - very common on these. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 I agree! Just a picture of a museum specimen: excerpt from Paulo M. Brito, Yoshitaka Yabumoto. 2011. An updated review of the fish faunas from the Crato and Santana formations in Brazil, a close relationship to the Tethys fauna. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A, 9: 107–136 " 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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