Table 1 Raman and ATR-FTIR vibrational modes assignment for fish fossil.

From: Biofinder detects biological remains in Green River fish fossils from Eocene epoch at video speed

Raman peak position (cm−1)

Assignment

ATR-FTIR peak position (cm−1)

Assignment

652

C–C twisting

  

1041

C–C stretching

  

1080

Carbonate sym stretch

  

1165

C–H in plane bending

  

1275 (sh)

C=CH deformation

  

1305

CH2 twist/bending

  

1381

CH3 deformation lipid

1414

C-H deformation

1441

CH2 bending lipid

1453

CH3 bending lipid

1581

C=C bending

1535

C=C

1599

C=O stretching

1599

C=O stretching

1621

C=C stretching

1621

C=C stretching

1730

C=O stretching lipid

1721

C=O stretching

2857

CH2 sym stretch lipid

2855

CH2 stretch lipid

2904

CH2 asy stretch

  

2928

CH3 sym stretch

2927

CH stretch

3074

CH asy stretch

  
  1. sh: Shoulder, sym: symmetric, asy: asymmetric.