Fossilized fish

Sep 7, 2021 2:28 PM

textradebran350

Views

897168

Likes

1627

Dislikes

14

fossils

fossil

fossilporn

fossilid

fish

Fish: Just five more minutes... *goes back to sleep*

3 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

Premium specimen - congratulations.

3 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 0

Probably a $1000-$1500 piece right there.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

whoa. that's amazing

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Gorgeous

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Can someone explain how it form so thindly around the fish? And not in a Giant lump. I assume that the form is how it was found

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mackerel???

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The one that got away

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Morreeeee

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Deep fry it and eat it

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's one crusty looking tuna sub.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Many fossil specimens are very affordable (like shells, trilobites etc), put them in a good box, and they make great gifts.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Lycoptera Davidi for fish, you can even buy them on wish for $7. I did, it's authentic. It's fish, there's probably tons and tons of them.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Do they taste better with lemon or with dill sauce?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think you baguette is stale, its rock hard

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm no expert in such matters, but I think that is past its sell-by date.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Forbidden sandwich...

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 0

Indy was just a thief too, change my mind

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Damn right!

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yes technically, but he eventually always put his collected artifacts in a museum.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So he was British?

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Indy would absolutely have put the Elgin Marbles in that little bag of his.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Obligatory "Paige, no"

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Forbidden footlong

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My french ass thought it was a baguette

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So that's a Subway tuna sandwich huh?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fish in baguette !

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's a kipper....

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He's okay though right?

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It would be a struggle to eat that sandwich

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Paige...

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Dry aged

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

i have to say, i expected a dildo inside. the internet has ruined me

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is he gonna be alright?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lightly fried

3 years ago | Likes 445 Dislikes 0

Dry aged fish?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lightly fossilized fish fillet

3 years ago | Likes 93 Dislikes 1

lightly smoked fossilized fish fillet

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Say "lightly fossilized fish filet" one more time.

3 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 0

Does look quite cooked, leave it a bit longer

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lightly petrified fish filet

3 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

At first I was filleted, I was petrified.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

He's teriyaki flavored

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Petri-fried

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dad, it's 30 million years ago.

3 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

Do you want lightly fossilized fish fillets or not?

3 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

Well, yeah

3 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

What I'm always curious about is how anyone knew the fossil was in there before breaking it up

3 years ago | Likes 169 Dislikes 0

Geology knowledge + usually there's parts of the fossil that sticks out. Here they knew how to break it open in the right orientation.

3 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

He didn't break it up, I think he even brought it there

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Well fucking obviously, but they found it somewhere.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm not saying I would know, but I've never seen a naturally occurring baguette shaped rock before this post.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Smells fishy

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They know because they put the fish there in the first place. Then it's just a question of waiting a few million years and bam!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I have a feeling it was probably a slab with a fossil first, then it was sanded down to the right length/width to sell to collectors.

3 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 3

No, that's probably a concretion of some sort, a nodule. Around here we've got them that are round or oval, pop right out of shale, have

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Ammonites, goniaties, and some fish heads. Even got a full shark jaw.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

yep. And they break a lot of rocks to find them. Its pretty much an industrial now.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

book learnin' + lots of field work = knows what to look for.

3 years ago | Likes 128 Dislikes 0

There’s also some places you can just pay to split rocks in a likely area.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

huh... that cleared it right up!

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

So what do we look for ?

3 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Fish that looks like rock but bit fishy

3 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

Imperfections in an otherwise smooth rock face. Things like it looking like another rock is sticking out. When you see stuff like this 1/2

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

you don't see the 100 or so ones with a weird hole or other imperfection that got cracked and had nothing inside as well. 2/2

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fish shaped rock

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Hey that rock is looking fishy

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fossils

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Books, I think

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0