Hey everyone, been meaning to post this paleoniscoid fish here that I found way back in 2011 and finally got round to properly prepping a few weeks back. It was my first complete Carboniferous fish from a site in my hometown and definitely still my favorite! When it split out the head, tail and fins all stayed on one half of the split and the body on the other. I cut the body out and stuck it down as tightly as possible and used a combination of acetic acid and a needle under a microscope to slowly expose the scales, really pleased with the result and might attempt it with more fish now! The species has been identified as Elonichthys robisoni and it was found in a Lower Carboniferous, Visean, freshwater limestone deposited in a shallow lake in a basin that is now the Forth Estuary. This species is the most common actinopterygian in deposits of this age in this basin. The object behind the fish's head is a coprolite which this bed is crammed full of, this one is on the smaller side but it is probably rhizodont. You can also just see the edge of a sand injection to the right of the fish going off the plate, glad this missed the fish or it would have cut right through and distorted it!