steelhead9 Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 I bought this on everyone's favorite auction site as a split nodule 13" long. I glued the 2 halves together and prepped it down from the top. The nodule is, I assume limestone, but is unlike any I have seen. It is very soft on the outside and gets very hard on the inside. The bone is very fragile and pink in color with a microscopic layer of black on top. As you can see by the front on photo, it was a very toothy little bugger. No collection info was available from the seller. My best guess is enchodus or some type of early shark, but that is just a shot in the dark. Help Please! Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 I think you can rule out early sharks. The spine seems to bony and not cartilaginous - so Actinopterygii and not Chondrichthyes. Enchodus would also be my wild guess. 1 Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Those vertebrae don't look like those of Enchodus to me. Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted December 14, 2016 Author Share Posted December 14, 2016 27 minutes ago, LordTrilobite said: Those vertebrae don't look like those of Enchodus to me. Any ideas? Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 no I don't know what else it could be. but the vertebrae don't seem similar the ones I see from Morocco. Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Hmm, you are right - definitly not Enchodus vertebrae. No idea what they are, sorry! Thomas Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JarrodB Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 I'm not sure what fish it is but it's a killer piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 Turns out to be a flattened calamopleurus. 2 Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 Thanks for the update - good to know. 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...
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