What I found digging a basement

[The Fossilman]

[Kane]

Someone left some prepared fish fossils from elsewhere 

[The Fossilman]

Was pretty much as I found them with minimal prep work

 

Edited February 28 by The Fossilman

[jpc]

Wow... great find.  Good eye, as well.  

[Ludwigia]

Has it been determined from exactly which stratigraphical time period/horizon these originate? Have the species of these fish been determined by now? Is this displayed in the Tyrell museum? It would be very interesting to see a peer reviewed paper on this find. Was there a follow-up excavation from the museum to try to determine the palaeoecology of the site?.... Never mind, good old pirahna has posted the paper 

Edited February 28 by Ludwigia

[Kane]

I missed the plaque on the right. Congratulations on your donation. 

[piranha]

Here is the excellent paper that details this amazing find.  Congrats!

 

Murray, A.M., Zelenitsky, D.K., Brinkman, D.B., Neuman, A.G. 2018

Two New Palaeocene Osteoglossomorphs from Canada, with a Reassessment of the Relationships

of the Genus Joffrichthys, and Analysis of Diversity from Articulated Versus Microfossil Material.

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 183(4):907-944  PDF LINK

[connorp]

Very cool!

[trilobites_are_awesome]

So cool!

[digit]

Indeed. Luckily, the block of sandstone split on a bedding plane revealing the fish fossils in the field. These specimens provided fresh material to help to elucidate the taxonomy of the Paleocene fish genus Joffrichthys. Nice to see this specimen made its way to the Royal Tyrell where it could be studied. Fossils from the Paskapoo Formation from just a handful of millions of years after the K/Pg extinction event seem to be pretty uncommon so this was a significant find.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken