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Could you identify this fossil as well?

 

The size of this fossil is roughly 15 cm in long diameter and excavated in the black shale in Gyeong-sang-do (province) in South Korea.

 

Thank you for your help in advance~^^*

 

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The Pohang Basin is Miocene age.

@oilshale may help identifying the fishes.

Concerning second photo, i would say it's kind of coral or sponge.

You may consider to ask in "Fossil Sites" "Asia" forum, too.

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Sorry, I can't help you much with that. I lived in Ulsan and Seoul for almost a year, but never got to collect fossils myself in the marine Dohu formation. The fish looks like a bristlemouth - I guess it could be Vinciguerria orientalis.  Unfortunately I don't have the publication and also no pictures.

I only got the email address of M. Nazarkin: m_nazarkin@mail.ru 

 

Kye-Soo Nam, Ju-Yeong Ko & Mikhail V. Nazarkin (2019) A new lightfish, †Vinciguerria orientalis, sp. nov. (Teleostei, Stomiiformes, Phosichthyidae), from the middle Miocene of South Korea, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2019.1625911

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334689673_A_new_lightfish_Vinciguerria_orientalis_sp_nov_Teleostei_Stomiiformes_Phosichthyidae_from_the_middle_Miocene_of_South_Korea

 

PS: I just asked one of the authors ( Ko Ju Yeong from the Chungbuk National University) via Researchgate.net if he could send me the publication.

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The Gyeong-sang-do black shale (Nakdong and Jinju formation) is a Cretaceous, non marine sediment, isn't it? So coral is unlikely. Fruiting body of a cycad?

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