Fish Spine ?

[Rockwood]

Found among pinnules in Pennsylvanian coal shale.

[abyssunder]

Maybe,but it's a bit out of focus for me,but focused on fish vertebrae(?).

[Auspex]

Is this the subject of your inquiry?

[old bones]

I saw this as a series of verts.. is this what you mean Rockwood?

[Mike from North Queensland]

I will make this comment for thought if they are fish the vertebrae as highlighted in "old bones" post get longer and longer at one end. this is more a plant thing normally. The other object highlighted in "Auspex" post looks like a fish fin. But we see what we want to see and they could be organic in origin. I would concentrate on the fossil seen under what looks like the fin as this is the surface of the main fossil and be the best bet for an id.

Mike

[Auspex]

The rays on a fish fin do not fork, do they?

One here appears to do so:

[Rockwood]

Vertebral column as highlighted by old bones is what I was thinking. It would be poorly preserved and only partially exposed if it is, but still some consolation for not finding the dragon fly that I had hoped for. I hadn't noticed the fin like appearance until I photographed it. My thought is that it is just some veins of a partial leaf. The layering does make things a little hard to interpret.