[JohnJ]

Don't let winter get you down. It's time to start submitting your February entries! Let's see more of your fossils and research for this month.

We are trying this new contest format on a trial basis. The objective is to have fun. So carefully read the rules below, and go make some great finds! Entries will be taken until March 2nd. Let us know if you have any questions. Have fun!
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Rules for the Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month Contests

1. You find a great Vertebrate Fossil or Invertebrate/Plant Fossil! Only fossils found by you.

2. Post your entry in the Find of the Month topic. Use a separate post for each entry.

3. Your Fossil must have been found during the Month of the Contest, or the Preparation of your Fossil must have been
completed during the Month of the Contest.

4. You must include the Date of your Discovery or the Date of Preparation Completion.

5. You must include the common or scientific name.

6. You must include the Geologic Age or Geologic Formation where the Fossil was found.

7. Play fair. No bought fossils.


Shortly after the end of the Month, separate Polls will be created for the Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month. The maximum entries allowed by the Polling software will be selected for each contest by the staff.

In addition to the fun of a contest, we also want to learn more about the Fossils. So, only entries posted with a CLEAR photo and that meet the other guidelines will be placed into the Poll.

Within a few days, we will know the two winning Finds of the Month! Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry!

[JohnJ]

Some great February finds are starting to show on the board...who is going to enter their best find this month?

[edd]

Got this dugong molar from a creek in Gainesville Fla, Middle Miocene to Pleistocene - Hawthorne formation... i think i found it on the 16th of this month

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[JohnJ]

Now, it's not like the glassy dugong molar doesn't like competition, it just likes being alone. There have been some nice fossils that qualify this month. You have less than a week to enter some "friends" to keep the dugong company.

[megateeth]

I will add this one since I do not know if I will get out any more this month. 4-7/8" C. Megalodon Tooth found 2/24/10. Pliocene - (Hawthorne Formation GA.)




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[JohnJ]

Who's afraid of a big, bad...uhh, any plant or invertebrates out there?

[Placoderms]

I had dinner with Matt_Cable and his wife last night (2/27/10) and afterwards used his setup to prep out this Devonian "Color Pattern" Phacops I found in New York.

This partially enrolled bug is 20 MM long.

There are many theories about what caused the black dots... I'd love to hear yours!

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[ozzyrules244]

Ok I'll throw one up there found Feb. 27 Lee creek, from pcs spoil pile, Rhincodon typus/Whale shark tooth this one was HARD to photograph took me about 40 trys lol its about 2mm long

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[crinus]

Hate to see only one entry for the Invertebrate category. Come on people. Surely someone has found some inverts. And for those of us under several feet of snow, surely some one has cleaned a specimen or two. I will enter my latest cleaning job. Let the battle of the Phacops begin.

Genus/species: Phacops rana crassituberculata
Age: Devonian
Formation: Silica Shale
Locality: Paulding, Ohio
Date Found: October 2009
Date Cleaned: February 14, 2010


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[MikeD]

Come on BobC! I know you found something worthy of this post.

[JohnJ]

I thought I would try to rope in a couple of trilos with a last second entry. Found February 13th in the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Fm., this is an uncommon to rare, pyritized heteromorphic ammonite - Metaptychoceras sp.