Been to the seaside...

[sbisson]

...and brought back a fish.


It's a little, err, dead. About 50 million years dead...

(Not a photograph - I actually stuck it on the bed of the scanner and I was quite surprise how well it came out!)

Comments

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Wow! Good scan!

[lproven.livejournal.com]

It's a nice fish.

</Bob Wildcat in Police Academy>

Do you know what species?

I have one much like it, though a different skull morphology. I bought mine at Dinosaur Ridge in Colorado. Where'd you get yours?

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

That is a most excellent fossil fish. I don't know enough about fish fossils to even guess what it might be, but a lot of this stuff comes from a jurassic seabed range in Brazil. I have one, which is somewhat incomplete, but it's interesting because it's preserved in 3D, and you can even see some of the internal structure.

[damienw]

We saw one like this at the UTexas-Austin Museum. But it's a little bigger. After all, this is Texas.

I call it "Binky".

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

you saw a pale rider on a pale fish?

Note; Simon leaves out the argument where my mum wanted to buy it for him ;-)

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Pretty fishie!

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

::supresses comments about "well aged", & cetera::

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not lutefisk!

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

No, nor pickled herring, neither.

T-shirt: "Well, it's not lutefisk!"