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RE: fossil fish query


From: Adrienne Mayor <afmayor@aol.com>
Reply-To: afmayor@aol.com
To: vrtpaleo@usc.edu
CC: Dinosaur Mailing List <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: fossil fish query
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:18:48 -0700

A Russian paleontologist contacted me about his discovery of a sculpted stone relief of a fish on a temple in Northern India, dating to about 1300-1600.

Do any living fish species in northern India have 3-pointed tail fins? Would a 3-pointed tail fin be obvious in a fossil fish skeleton?

I think I recall hearing about a Cambrian Explosion fossil, of an animal with a three-pointed tail.

might the temple have used such a fossil as a base?

Thanks in advance. 

welcome.




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