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PaleoPat

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Hi everyone,

 

I got this fish at a mineral shop and he had no identification for it.   My son thought it might be a knightia or a mioplosus.   It also looks to me like it got fossilized when going to the bathroom.  Can anyone help me ID it?   Am I right about the poop?

I'd really appreciate it.   Pat

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I believe your fish is "upside down" in the photos. Yes, that's a coprolite; but apparently from another donor. Looks to be Knightia.  It has every appearance of a Green River Formation fish.

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Move to FOSSIL ID.  ;) 

 

 

Yup. Looks like a Knightia eocaena

Correct orientation:

 

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Excellent preservation on that fish.  Too bad about the head.  You can always paint in some bones?  You can exspose more the the anul fin too.  Actually a nice fish. 

 

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