PalaeoArt Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Looking to see whether anyone might be able to help with the following two items I found at Warfield Quarry today. This first is perhaps a fish scale but it's big at 1" across - I could be very wrong though. The second looks like a rear fin of a Priscacara and is fairly big at about 7" across. Any help would be really appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 @FossilDudeCO should know. Does look like a fish scale. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 The first one appears to be a Phareodus fish scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Don't believe you ok,so : how can you tell What i have.literaturewise,(Grande*,Whitlock) doesn't appear to show scales) *yes,of course including THAT one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 category:innerestin' outtake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Yeah, individal fish scale, and fin. I can't say which genera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDudeCO Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Phareodus scale for sure The large spines/fin also come from a Phareodus! One of the largest I have ever seen. Confirmed in the quarry. Would have been a fish about 24 inches in length!!! For those of you reading, he even has the negative! Thanks @ynot 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 17 hours ago, doushantuo said: Don't believe you ok,so : how can you tell What i have.literaturewise,(Grande*,Whitlock) doesn't appear to show scales) *yes,of course including THAT one A combination of unique features, size, and a known assemblage of fishes in that formation (and a "bit" of experience in that deposit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Figure II.32b - excerpt from Grande, L. 1984. Paleontology of the Green River Formation with a Review of the Fish Fauna. Second Edition. The Geological Survey of Wyoming. Bulletin 63: 1-334. (1st ed., 1980) 1 " 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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