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Fossilized fishes???
Mar 18th, 2018 at 7:18pm
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I found a few rocks with fossilized clams and other shells but I also found another rock that didn't look like shells. After studying it for a bit, it kind of looks like fishes. Some parts look like fish tails while another looks like a head. Let me know what you guys think.
  

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Re: Fossilized fishes???
Reply #1 - Mar 18th, 2018 at 7:51pm
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Looks like a concretion vaguely in the shape of a fish, with some shell fragments in it. Concretions can take many shapes, and sometimes resemble fossil life forms.
  
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Reply #2 - Mar 18th, 2018 at 9:25pm
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Thanks Victor. I thought the concretion looked like the back half of a fish with the tail fin to the right of it. The fish head was just too strange because it was just the outline.
  
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Re: Fossilized fishes???
Reply #3 - Mar 18th, 2018 at 10:58pm
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Good eye, wailele, that is a strange looking rock!
I agree with Victor, but still, I see the "sections" in what I think you are calling the tail and it does make you wonder.
But like Victor said, pieces and parts in a concretion can look like a lot of things. Wink
Looks like the concretion must have dried out and formed cracks that were filled with the quartz or chalcedony or....
The " bands" in the white material in pic 2 and elsewhere on your piece are interesting. Almost look like agate "fortifications".

Glad to see you getting out in the field! Thanks for the pics!
  
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Reply #4 - Mar 19th, 2018 at 10:34pm
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Thanks guys. I knew it didn't look like any other fish fossils I  have seen before but I figured I'd ask anyway. Finally had a break in the weather and I figured I take the kids out to do something. Found this nice jasper though! Unfortunately, it looks like the fractures runs deep.
  

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Reply #5 - Mar 20th, 2018 at 10:36am
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Neat finds! Thanks for sharing.
Where did you find them?
  
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Reply #6 - Mar 20th, 2018 at 1:55pm
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Thanks Rebecca! I'm out on the west coast in California.
  
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Reply #7 - Feb 11th, 2020 at 6:00am
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The first pics are shell coquina and it looks like so coral as well.   the jasper looks like stone creek Jasper.   Where did you find it?
  
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Reply #8 - Feb 11th, 2020 at 6:03am
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BTW I miss spoke(typed)  Stone Canyon Jasper not Stone Creek.
Stone Canyon is a healed Jasper breccia that is healed with agate and takes a nice polish.   your pic has nice color.
  
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Reply #9 - Feb 11th, 2020 at 5:11pm
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In regards to the earlier posts showing the fine examples of coquina, I believe these are weathered out cobbles naturally rounded by erosion, as opposed to concretions, formed in a different way.  It is easy to see many rounded rocks as being concretions, but many times they are just rounded rocks. I could be wrong, often am. Great stuff!
  
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Reply #10 - Feb 11th, 2020 at 11:51pm
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Hey RMF, definitely has some nice color and Stone Canyon Jasper did cross my mind. Found it in a creek in Paicines, Ca. This specimen is severely fractured though because of natural erosion.

Thanks Laurie! Yeah theres a lot of fossilized sea shells in sedimentary rocks around here in Cali. Largest one I've seen was a boulder about 2.5 feet across and 3 feet high littered with smaller fragments of shells. I really like the larger one I've found because theres a shell that's shaped kind of like a heart.
  
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