Newark supergroup? Hash plate.

[cck]

Hello all! I found this out of context in some landscaping material in Virginia, but I believe I recognize the  matrix as coming from the Culpeper basin, which which is Triassic... I'm totally lost on what these patterns come from! Any help would be great. Thanks! Edit : this is most probably not Culpeper basin material, but Devonian Catskill or similar based on responses- bad assumption based on where it was found ...

Edited April 22, 2018 by cck
Misleading- wrong assumption

[cck]

[fossilcrazy]

When it comes to transported material (landscaping material) , it is very hard to be conclusive of the age and formation.

You have vertebrate material, be it fish scales, amphibian or reptile plates.

Someone very familiar with the patterns of the same material might be able to identify the species. 

[Miocene_Mason]

These look like osteoderms. Maybe they could have com from Pennsylvania, the catskill formation? I don’t know what would have osteoderms like that it the Newark supergroup but in the catskill devonian fish like Bothriolepis and the related have similar plating. Could you ask the seller of the stone where it came from?

 

Edit: I forgot, the Hampshire FM in Virginia also bears such fish.

[Fossildude19]

Very cool!!

I think I would be tempted to contact Paul Olsen about this. 

He would probably have a good idea as to what these belonged to. 

Good luck!  

[Peat Burns]

1 hour ago, WhodamanHD said:

These look like osteoderms. Maybe they could have com from Pennsylvania, the catskill formation? I don’t know what would have osteoderms like that it the Newark supergroup but in the catskill devonian fish like Bothriolepis and the related have similar plating. Could you ask the seller of the stone where it came from?

 

Edit: I forgot, the Hampshire FM in Virginia also bears such fish.

I agree with this.   It looks just like the Catskill Fm. material (not saying it is, but it really looks like it).  Compare the fossils with scales of the Devonian lobe-fin fish Holoptychius as well.

[cck]

Wow that looks so much like it! Now how did it get to be next to a parking lot in Virginia? That's crazy! Thanks for your help all,and I'll send a note to Paul Olsen toy see  what he Thinks.

[jdp]

As others said, this is Devonian. I see what appears to be a segment of tristichopterid jaw, some chunks of placoderm, and some scales that might be porolepiform. I assume this was transported as fill.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Nice find!