Actual fossilized Pepperidge Farm gold fish

[Miocene_Mason]

On our favorite auction site I have found a great deal for anyone who can afford it: A fossilized Pepperidge dark gold fish. According to the description it’s “probably a few million years old” and “the missing link”. This can be your for a reasonable 999.95$ but the seller is accepting offers. Seems legit  to me. Perhaps our fish experts can identify species?

[Kane]

LOL. Maybe something to consider if the seller throws in the 1962 quarter.  

[Tidgy's Dad]

Jaspericthys cherticus. 

[Macrophyseter]

I'm pretty sure that this is more like an attempt to make a meme rather than intentionally scamming someone. Remember that time when someone sold a single hot cheetos for over a hundred thousand dollars because it "shaped like harambe"?

[Miocene_Mason]

50 minutes ago, Macrophyseter said:

I'm pretty sure that this is more like an attempt to make a meme rather than intentionally scamming someone. Remember that time when someone sold a single hot cheetos for over a hundred thousand dollars because it "shaped like harambe"?

Scam? Meme? This is a late Cretaceous fish, look at this life reproduction:

This was before the “smiles back” allele developed.

[Miocene_Mason]

1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Jaspericthys cherticus. 

You sure the tail is heterocercal in this specimen; I put forth tentatively Cherticthys jasperticus. Of course the two genera are closely related

[Miocene_Mason]

1 hour ago, Kane said:

LOL. Maybe something to consider if the seller throws in the 1962 quarter.  

You should see the 380000000 BCE quarter!

[Bobby Rico]

let’s be coy about this and not blow it out of scale . At the end of the day we can all pick the bones out of it.

[old bones]

Actually, these things are more common than you might realize. Here is one that I found a while ago in some micro matrix;

[Tidgy's Dad]

25 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

let’s be coy about this and not blow it out of scale . At the end of the day we can all pick the bones out of it.

There's no need to carp on about it. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

17 minutes ago, old bones said:

Actually, these things are more common than you might realize. Here is one that I found a while ago in some micro matrix;

For sale?

[Miocene_Mason]

1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

There's no need to carp on about it. 

Unless you splitting herrings.

(that’s a stretch)

[Miocene_Mason]

1 hour ago, old bones said:

Actually, these things are more common than you might realize. Here is one that I found a while ago in some micro matrix;

Convergent evolution?

[Kane]

Just now, WhodamanHD said:

Convergent evolution?

Nah. Allopatric speciation. Those ones developed in seas with a significantly lower amount of food dye.  

[Miocene_Mason]

2 minutes ago, Kane said:

Nah. Allopatric speciation. Those ones developed in seas with a significantly lower amount of food dye.  

Does that make the group a paraphyly!?! If your not careful they could all be marked down as Otodus!

[Kane]

3 minutes ago, WhodamanHD said:

Does that make the group a paraphyly!?! If your not careful they could all be marked down as Otodus!

[izak_]

Here is a professionally drawn paleo-reconstruction:

[Miocene_Mason]

1 hour ago, Foozil said:

Here is a professionally drawn paleo-reconstructio

Look at those highly specialized sclerotic rings! True wonder of evolution.

[izak_]

2 minutes ago, WhodamanHD said:

Look at those highly specialized sclerotic rings! True wonder of evolution.

Of course the sunglasses are only speculation, we have yet to find preserved sunglasses in fossil Pepperidge Farm gold fish.  

[old bones]

What fun!

[caldigger]

19 hours ago, old bones said:

Actually, these things are more common than you might realize. Here is one that I found a while ago in some micro matrix;

Pepperidgeicus whitechedderensis

[jpenn]

I agree with referring the specimen to Jasperichthys.

 

It is being sold from Manheim in Lancaster county PA and jasper can be found in the region.