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A beauty mini Fish from my favorite old site.

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fossilcrazy Regular Member

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I split this tiny fish out of my coal supply. This Microhaplolepis serrata is 100% complete at a mere 23 mm. The Fish is Mid-Pennsylvanian in age. The Cannel Coal is so paper thin I needed to mount it on stiff cardboard to handle. I haven't posted Linton material in a long time. I never seem to grow tired of discovering these little guys.

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Here are pictures taken in different lighting conditions.

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Here are some technical drawings of this and related species.

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Miocene_Mason Regular Member

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That's an amazing fossil, nice find!

“...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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Fossildude19 Regular Member

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And I never get tired of seeing them! :) 

Really lovely fish, John. :wub:

Thanks for sharing it with us.

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Jeffrey P Regular Member

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Congratulations John. That's a seriously fine looking specimen there. Thanks for sharing it. I've really missed seeing new Linton material. Hope you have more to show. 

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Ash Regular Member

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What a cutey!

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine

"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else."

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Shamalama Regular Member

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Beautiful!  I had to go look up Linton and Cannel Coal to understand where your fossil came from. Fascinating!

-Dave

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Malcolmt Regular Member

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John , didn't you hear there was a ban on coal.... I think you need to send it all to Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

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