Daveos Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Picked this up a while ago. Finally prepping. Slow going as it's in some very hard sediment. Saw some teeth pop out today. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Lookin good so far. Take yer time. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Yup. That has the look of the 18" layer which provides some really nice preservation but is harder matrix than encountered in the split-fish layer. Slow and steady wins the day. Cheers. -Ken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveos Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 Individual scales with surface texture 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveos Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 53 minutes ago, digit said: Yup. That has the look of the 18" layer which provides some really nice preservation but is harder matrix than encountered in the split-fish layer. Slow and steady wins the day. Cheers. -Ken This stuff is hard even for the 18" layer. Fish is encased in a layer of concrete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Mioplosus concretensis! Cheers. -Ken 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 You sure do know how to take some good pictures. Looks like a nice fish, but wondering about the lower jaw? RB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveos Posted December 11, 2022 Author Share Posted December 11, 2022 12 hours ago, RJB said: You sure do know how to take some good pictures. Looks like a nice fish, but wondering about the lower jaw? RB Thanks! Just cell snaps. I was also wondering about the jaw. Figure it will show up as I prep more of that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveos Posted December 12, 2022 Author Share Posted December 12, 2022 Any idea what this bone is? It's protruding off from behind the skull. Guessing shifted from elsewhere, don't know my bony fish bones well. Lots of scales all over. Starting to think I'm looking down at the top of the skull? Cheers David 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holdinghistory Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Very nice! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Nice fish! What does WIP stand for? Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 5 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said: What does WIP stand for? I think, "work in progress". 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 On 12/11/2022 at 7:49 PM, Daveos said: Any idea what this bone is? It's protruding off from behind the skull. Guessing shifted from elsewhere, don't know my bony fish bones well. Lots of scales all over. The bone looks like it could be a sub-operculum, preoperculum, or a cleithrum, probably disarticulated from the right hand side of the skull. 2 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveos Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 16 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said: The bone looks like it could be a sub-operculum, preoperculum, or a cleithrum, probably disarticulated from the right hand side of the skull. Great diagram. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveos Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 Just about done. Many hours of prep work. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Looks good. The hard stuff is a real joy to prep isn't it? 1 Regards, Kris Global Paleo Services, LLC https://globalpaleoservices.com http://instagram.com/globalpaleoservices http://instagram.com/kris.howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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