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As the picture shows - I found this fossil 2002 in the afternoon, minutes before I finished work as a gardener - I cleaned the plant areas in Havixbeck - a smalltown at the base of the " Baumberge" in Westfalia - Germany. I lived there for 2 and a half years. In this time I collected there some nice fossils of Campanian age. ....but I never found a fish in the fossil - quarries. They are very rare but since the medieval time known and discriped, then forgotten in the last 200 years there had been found some fishes, nearby less than 100 pieces in the quarries at the Baumberge. Some km far away in Sendenhorst they found fish fossils too. They are very similar to the fossils from Santana Formation in Brasil and the Fossils from Lebanon. 

 

Is there anybody who can give the little fish a name?

 

 

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It may be difficult to ID with the poor preservation of the head, and the minimal fins preserved. :unsure: 

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"Is there anybody who can give the little fish a name?"   How does Henry suit you?

 

 

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Do you know which formation it is from?

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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The preservation is not perfect, but the extremely long dorsal fin is conclusive. I would guess it is Istieus macrocephalus Agassiz. At least this is the only fish with such a long dorsal fin I know from Baumberge / Sendenhorst.

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Thomas

 

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Thanks a lot for the informations - I will think about the name .....Henry Istieus jun. ....campanian age    

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