I'll be the first to admit she needs work, but I'd appreciate any constructive criticism and solutions to these problems because I plain don't know how to address some of them. She's on the cloud in YL2, and I hope people enjoy her even in her incomplete state. Here's a glamor shot.

And a general reference.

Eventually, I'll need to figure out how to rig the tail once animations/interactions are live. And I'd like to figure out how to make a decent hair, if anyone has a good tutorial for that, I'm all ears. And like many of you, I'm looking forward to the new scalie digitigrade feet which she'll get when I give her a makeover.
However, in the short term, there's an artifact that I can't seem to get rid of that's attached to the ear fin.

There's nothing in the .obj file that would suggest that the large white shape should exist, nor anything in the texture files (I think?) either. Again, any help would be lovely.