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Hello! I happened to have just found this odd fish blob today from the stark shale. This is my first fish blob and I wondered if anyone knew if this was a shark or some sort of Palaeonisciform. Sadly no teeth were seen Location: Missouri Age: Pennsylvanian Formation: Dennis Bone? Other Images:
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I found this fish scale in the lighter grey layers of Granton Quarry. It is about 1 cm in length, and seems to be rather characteristic, so I am hopeful of a ID. Lockatong Fm Granton Quarry, North Bergen, New Jersey Upper Triassic Thanks.
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Interesting unidentified possible fossils found in the Aegean Sea
AnnaNova posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello everyone, Earlier this summer, I was diving at a beach in the Aegean Sea, and I found some very interesting things under the water that I was hoping you could help me identify. I know nothing of fossils, so please forgive me if these are just some random fish bones. However, they are odd in appearance and appear to be made entirely of stone; they are extremely hard and do not feel like bones at all. I am adding some pictures and will be grateful if you can help me identify them. This beach is a big treasure trove, and I have also found some very interesting rocks there that I am also trying to identify. I've posted these in the Rocks and Minerals section. I am adding photos; at the bottom, you will also see pictures with the three items and references in centimeters and inches. Thanks a lot for any advice you can give here.
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Where are the Jalama beach fossils found
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I had a free morning last weekend, so I drove out to Jalama beach. A while ago while searching for good places to fossil hunt near Santa Barbara I saw this post and since then have stopped by twice for a few hours each to crack rocks without any luck. This time I finally found myself a Jalama beach fish. It's not in good enough shape to identify (for me, anyway), but it's nice to finally get something. I had read that the south side of the beach is more fossil rich, so I walked south until I didn't see any people and then started working my way back. The fossil-rich layer is a beige layered rock. This link, referenced in the post that got me interested in Jalama beach, refers to this formation as "the diatom beds of Lompoc." The cleavage is extremely nice and it reminds me of the green river formation fossils you see around (although it seems the fish are usually smaller). Most of the rock in the cliffs is a reddish brown crumbly rock without many fossils, and the first time I came I wasted a bunch of time messing around with that. You definitely have to poke around a bit to find the fossil rich rocks. Anyway, I found the fish almost immediately, and didn't find anything else as I worked my way back for the rest of the morning. I think next time I'll try to go even further south. There are a lot of fragments of algae fossils around and I only picked one up because it looked kind of interesting- I haven't really put any effort into identifying it yet. If anyone else is thinking about going to Jalama beach, I highly recommend bringing along a sharp flat chisel (see picture). I bought rectangular knife stock on Amazon and then sharpened it. It definitely helps in getting the rock to break along a plane instead of shattering, which is usually what happens with a regular geology hammer. Also, if you'd like some company I'd be happy to hunt with someone else, I don't really know anyone else in the area that does this.
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Anyone familiar with this rock. Long story short have river rock around my house and found these. Going to guess that they get these rocks from the Mississippi somewhere but I live where a once shallow sea was. The fossil gets thin on the other side but goes completely around the stone
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I got back this weekend from my annual trip up to Kemmerer to collect fish in the Green River Formation. It was a great trip and I got to help with a guided tour as my wife and her friends flew in for a few days. I found a bunch of fish as expected but didn’t bring home as many as typical. I just don’t have time to prep them. We were in a new quarry this year that has the upper split fish layer exposed. This was cool as the fish split clean like in the Sandwich Beds but are much better preserved. We even found a bit of the Phareodus Layer that produced a nice Phareodus. It’s going to need some work as it split through the head but I got all the pieces. If course, I had to fly my Norwegian flag… Phareodus layer split. Needs a glue up and heavy prep on the skull. There’s also a Knightia with it. Upper Split Fish Knightia. You can’t beat this preservation. Sandwich Bed palm frond. Not to be forgotten are the amazing nighttime views. The is a 10 minute exposure at 18mm with my camera piggyback mounted to the telescope. I’ll have more pics coming as I unpack. I collected a nice Noto that’s going to need a lot of work as it’s in 4 pieces.
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From the album: Cretaceous
Ischyrhiza mira Sawfish Rostral Spine Upper Cretaceous Wenonah Formation Matawan Group Ramanessin Brook Holmdel, N.J.- 3 comments
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From the album: Eocene vertebrates of Ukraine
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Found this in about a meter of water in the eagle ford formation. I’ve been told it’s most likely a fish from 90-96 million years ago but don’t know the exact species. A chunk of loose vertebrae fell off and I’m not sure if I should attach it back with some sort of adhesive or just leave it. Sorry for the imperial ruler 🇺🇸🦅
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I find these in the beach in South Carolina. Typically they are dark in color ranging from brown to black and are about 2.5 cm in length. I’ve been told that they are fossilized swim bladders but perhaps they are bone. Any ideas?
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From the album: Lebanese Fossils
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Recent Forays in New Jersey (Upper Cretyaceous and Paleocene)
Jeffrey P posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
A couple trips I recently took to New Jersey: The first was two weeks ago- to Ramanessin Brook near Holmdel. Ramanessin exposes the Upper Cretaceous marine Wenonah Formation. I met up with Tony, (NJfossilhunter), who helped introduce me to fossil hunting here back in 2014. .We headed down to a section of the brook that has been productive in the past. Fortunately, a very deep pool that was there on two previous trips is no longer so deep making access a whole lot easier. Here's a photo of the finds I kept. Most of the broken or worn shark teeth I ended up tossing. I did keep a couple of broken goblins as give aways. I work with children. The large goblin Scapanorhynchus texanus was found at the very end of the day in different location downstream. What was notable was the abundance of Squalicorax, crow shark teeth. I think, because of their rounded shape, they tend to be more intact than the other shark teeth. Even some of those I ended up tossing. My best finds of the day were a piece of Enchodus (fish) jaw with an intact tooth and a juvenile mosasaur tooth, 3/8ths of an inch long. I have a mosasaur tooth I found a few years ago that's relatively the same size. Both are my smallest mosasaur teeth.
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Enchodus petrosus Actinoptergii-boney fish jaw piece with tooth Upper Cretaceous Wenonah Formation Matawan Group Ramanessin Brook Holmdel, N.J. -
I have some old nodules I am going through from a box, I have freeze thawed thus 50 times so I took a hammer to it and destroyed it unfortunately. Is this some sort of plant or fish?
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Im at a loss for This one Pennsylvanian Fish Mouth Plate? (Missouri)
Samurai posted a topic in Fossil ID
Location: Missouri Age: Pennsylvanian Stratigraphy: Muncie Creek redeposted phosphate nodules/concretions (Iola formation) Here is another very odd find, it was just so weird looking I had to post it. Sadly it has been missing the other half long before I got to it. I have never seen anything quite like it, and I do not recognize any common pennsylvanian ids. I will say cephalopod material has been found in these nodules as well. Here are some images that makes it look inverted True inverted: There is another oval-shaped depression on the lower left leading into the nodule Size:
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Nodule #27 Fish Coprolite with Fish fin spine? Inclusion
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
5cm fish coprolite with inclusion. I belive that part to be fish fin support material or spine. Either way it must have hurt coming out. -
All spring I have been trying to find a time to go back to PA. That shouldn't be a big deal for a retired guy but I run a little backyard farm and that sucks time like … no tomorrow! Anyways, me and my son Ian decided we'd go for father's day. Main goal was to go back to Red Hill and see what was left in the layer above the railroad tracks. If I had to give advice to a young person or even not so young, take up rock climbing! It's so much fun and learning rope skills should be a life skill for paleontologists! This was suppose to be the trip Ian actually does the repelling but seeing I knew what we wanted and it is suppose to be illegal to be in the rr bed we decided that I'd just do it. The blocks were pretty lose so once I was tied in it was pretty easy to free them. Fortunately there is a shelf with a fairly soft talis about 20 feet below for them to bounce so when they make the final 20 foot drop a lot of the kinetic energy has been taken out. Again this lag layer did not disappoint. Preservation is pretty remarkable. There isn't a lot of articulated plates but enough to make an outstanding trip! It is interesting that if I had to guess about 80% Megalichthys material! This is clearly a lag deposit so should represent everything that is in the water. Megalichthys Postparietal shield. Made of 3 very clearly discernable elements on either side, postparietals, supratemporal and tabular. The sigmoidal sensory canals are very clearly visible on the posterior ends of the postparietals and tabulars. The lack of sensory pores is a diagnostic characteristic for M mullsoni. Anterior to the top. Scale bar in cm. This is another snout (see my previous post). Premaxilla at bottom with the typical mess of postrostral and nasal plates and then the anterior ends of the parietals above center. Between the other ends of the parietals would be the pineal series which is another synapomorphy of M mullisoni (see previous post) This is a full dermal surface of a Megalichthys jaw only missing a small bit of the articular (extreme left). Have not been able to find any signs of teeth, at least parasymphysial (top right). Maybe only dermal plates although I'd be shocked they stayed together without the rest of the mandible.
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
Here is a coprolite I sawed out a long time ago. I was thinking shark since I have heard that their poop appears spiral. I think this one is spiral because it resembles many bisected gastropod shells (right) while having a typical appearance of coprolite material for these nodules. -
After doing some internet research I am tentatively thinking these might be crocodile teeth rather than fish.....I can't seem to find any examples of Cretaceous fish that these might fit. But looking at the croc teeth, I see some similarities. Both of these were found at the same site in Central Texas, Austin Chalk formation. They are 1/4 inch. Any thoughts on these ? 1. 2.
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Found these on a gravel bar in Eastern Ks. and I don't know if anyone can id them but I figured it was worth a shot. I have done my own research and with fish verts they seem to all look VERY similar, thank you all for your help! @hemipristis could you help with these? Thank you!
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Was up at Lake St. Clair, NSW looking for late(?) Carboniferous marine fossils and came across this thing. I am thinking that its a fish tooth but not too sure as no vertebrate material has been reported from the site to my knowledge. Please let me know if clearer photos are needed This specimen is aprox. 7 mm long Thanks,
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Good day, I’ve found this stone in Italy, Genoa località Staglieno on a grill during a walk. It measires about 15cm in lenght and 8cm wide. I have no idea what it coldplay be. Can you help me to know more about it? Kimd regards Andrea
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