My grandfather recently died and I was going though his stuff with my dad. Grandpa was a school science teacher and principal, and I found a couple of pretty cool fish fossils that I'm gonna keep and display in my house (pic related). I don't know anything about them. I've done some googling, but it's hard to even know what terms to search for.
Can anyone help me identify they are?
What I know: >Found in American southwest (Utah, I think?) >They look like some kind of fish >Pretty sure they're 2 sides of the same fossilized animal(?), so it's like a mirror image
Kevin Gutierrez
Timestamp
Isaac Stewart
bump
Mason Flores
On the pic or the fossils? Also, who gives a fuck?
Jason Peterson
Bump for science.
Justin Turner
It appears to be two halves of a fossilized fish, likely from ancient utah. Hope this helps, OP!
Aiden Edwards
it looks like a dick incased in stone.
Ian Gonzalez
Dick incest with stone.
Zachary Murphy
You guys are amazing.
Adrian Walker
can you detail how that would work?
Jack Adams
Resin cast of a fossilized fish. Interesting but worthless.
Sebastian Gonzalez
You have to have your dick hard as diamond to fuck a stone. And you have to be stoned to make that an incest.
Jayden Butler
I don't pretend to know anything about fossils, but I'm pretty sure it's not a resin cast--it feels like stone to me, and it's pretty heavy. I also don't care about a dollar value unless it's stupid-high. I just wanna know what animal it is.
Lincoln Hall
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Elijah Rodriguez
I'll take his DVD's if you don't want them.
Cooper Martin
Sorry, DVDs are mine. That was just an easy place to take pics of them. The fossils are going on my mantle tomorrow.
Julian Cook
Sorry for your loss. Enjoy the DVD's. If gramps drank, enjoy some of his fave drop while watching the Monty Python.
Jeremiah Reyes
>Utah. That there is a Mormon fish.
Jeremiah Wood
Likely from the Green River Formation, meaning your fish dates from the Eocene.
Check their catalog and see if there are any close matches. You're welcome.
Eli King
I appreciate the advice, but he didn't have any booze around because wasn't in great shape by the time he shuffled off the mortal coil and went to join the choir invisible. He's an ex-grandpa.
Are you saying it has a bunch of wives?
Leo Cooper
op has pretty good taste in movies
Christian Reyes
Google image search says its a shoe
Hudson Robinson
Well, yeah. But to be fair, it's probably better that I didn't shoot the pic on another shelf.
Nailed it.
Grayson Bennett
Your dad would know what the old guy drank.
Samuel Edwards
Yes they're clearly shoes
Parker Perry
it looks like a fish that sleeps in the L position
Camden Wright
I know what he drank, but he hadn't had any booze for the last or so years of his life. Strokes and dementia are a bitch, so he was in an assisted living facility and then hospice. He drank a glass or 2 of wine with dinner and the occasional beer after a round golf.
Carter Bell
fuck the stone fish. that monty python set though...
Michael Martinez
I paid for neither. I had to wait for someone to die for me to get the fish, but the Python box set was a perk of working at a newspaper in the entertainment section when it was released. I got a lot of free promo shit that way back in the day.
Grayson Gray
Indeed.
Ian Green
it's not worth any money if that's what you asking.
Colton Sanchez
You got one shot of keeping that thing unbroken and you put it on a shelf where it's going to fall and smash into pieces. Once it's broken, that's it, forever. It will never be unbroken.
Hudson Lewis
>Once it's broken, that's it, forever. It will never be unbroken. That's not what my psychiatrist said
Zachary Butler
Didn't expect it to be worth anything. I just wanted to know what animal it was so I could learn about it.
That's a valid point, but they're really thick and heavy, and I've been very careful handling them. They're pretty sturdy, FWIW.
Hunter Howard
> find a university online > email paleontology department > profit