Jones1rocks Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 A Mazon fish, possibly Elonichthys peltigerus, or Elonichthys Hypsilepus?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 That is a beautiful fish! No idea of the species, sorry. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Awesome fossil! 1 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...
fossilized6s Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Looks like a Elonichthys peltigerus that may be associated with a worm. Absolutely killer fossil! 2 ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Color me . Fantastic fossil! Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jones1rocks Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 25 minutes ago, fossilized6s said: Looks like a Elonichthys peltigerus that may be associated with a worm. Absolutely killer fossil! I was wondering about that! I was wondering if the fish was in the process of eating the worm when buried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Yeah, choked on the fish maybe? Greedy fishy, serves it right! 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTexan Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Very cool. Maybe @Nimravis has some thoughts on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCFossils Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Beautiful fish! I agree that it appears to be E. peltigeras. If that is a worm preserved, it would be incredibly rare. I am aware of only one other fish fossil preserving a fish aspirating on its last meal. Having said that, I do not see any defining detail that would indicating that it is a worm. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Great fish- love the fins and Eye. As @RCFossils stated that would be rare if was a worm in his mouth. I have a few concretions with multiple species preserved, but nothing eating / choking on one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Fossils of fish choking on their last meal are quite interesting and there are quite a few on the net. But none that choked on a worm that I can find. Bit this is very interesting, though a little off topic. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/03/08/jurassic-fail-fish-accidentally-snags-pterosaur-and-both-die/#.Wjsnb1Vl_IU 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Other than the little sharks, I have never seen a mazon fish before, much less one that’s possibly choking on a worm! Very nice! 1 “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jones1rocks Posted December 21, 2017 Author Share Posted December 21, 2017 3 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Fossils of fish choking on their last meal are quite interesting and there are quite a few on the net. But none that choked on a worm that I can find. Bit this is very interesting, though a little off topic. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/03/08/jurassic-fail-fish-accidentally-snags-pterosaur-and-both-die/#.Wjsnb1Vl_IU The article was very interesting. In the fossil in my possession, if it is indeed a worm attached to the fish, could it simply be that the fish was killed coincidentally and DURING the act of eating, not from choking, but from rapid burial due to an event? By 'event', I'm referring to the hypothesis that the rapid burial was due to a catastrophic environmental occurrence, like a powerfully moving flood, where the fauna had virtually no time or ability to react. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 If it is a worm, and i"m not sure, it would seem to be coincidental. Just pure chance i would guess. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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