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Time to show you some of the fossil fish bones/scales I have found in Cretaceous chalk.
Associated fish scales
Bones
Large scale
Lots more to come.
Associated fish scales
Bones
Large scale
Lots more to come.
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Fossil Fish
Kosmos- Pre-cambrian
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fossilhunter- Palaeogene Rank
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Where is that big scale from? And what is it from?Kosmos wrote:Time to show you some of the fossil fish bones/scales I have found in Cretaceous chalk.
Associated fish scales
Bones
Large scale
Lots more to come.
Kosmos- Pre-cambrian
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It is from an unknown fish. All come from trips to Bedfordshire. 70 - 90 myo.
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Kosmos- Pre-cambrian
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Nice finds 
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I especially like the large fish scale, nice detail on that.
Kosmos- Pre-cambrian
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Cheers!rockhopper wrote:Nice finds
Thanks, chalk fish are hard to prepare, so not much can be done. I normally just take some matrix off.Spleain wrote:I especially like the large fish scale, nice detail on that.
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After more looking through papers, I believe that scale belongs to Pomognathus.
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This one has nice detail on too -
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loverly finds like the scales and some beutiful detail there
like the scales and some beutiful detail there
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Thanks,
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