JohnJ Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 By most accounts, the quality of the March entries was remarkable! I think April will prove just as awesome. Let's have fun out there and stay safe. For the time being, the format of the contests will remain the same. The objective is to have fun. So carefully read the rules below, and go make some great finds! Entries will be taken through April 30th. Please let us know if you have any questions, and thanks for sharing more of your fossils and research this month. To view the Winning Fossils from past contests visit the Find Of The Month Winner's Gallery. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Rules for The Fossil Forum's 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 significant 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! The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kg1 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Found this skull last night on the beach here in Oregon. 4-6-12 enaliarctine Pinniped from the Astoria formation (Thanks Bobby) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 We're off to rip snortin start... nice skull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncoat Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Sweet find kg1! i have been meaning to get out to do some collecting.. Are the sand levels pretty low? - Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kg1 Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 in general the sand is fairly high, but there are those sweet spots that you can find if you look hard enough. Plus this week we had good minus tides. Kent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 I try to mix it up a little but, all I seem to enter in this contest is Eldredgeops rana and here is yet another. This rare little guy 1.2" (if outstretched) x .6" , was found on April 5th. in Livingston County, New York. The glabella looks different from other Eldredgeops I have found (that would be hundreds) and it has its original color pattern. I have found other specimens in the past with color patterns preserved but they were missing their heads or cephalons. mikey Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crinoid Queen Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 (edited) Hay all. Nice skull Kg1!!! Wish I woulda found stuff like that lying on the beach when I was a kid Spectacular Trilo too Mikey! Nice prep too. I would Like to enter a beautiful 3D example of the flexible crinoid along with another in the plate as well. Species: Onychocrinus ulrichi (3D) Species: Cyathocrinites harrodi Date found: March 18, 2012 Date of Preparation Completion: April 8, 2012 Location Found: Crawfordsville, IN Edawrdsville Formation Mississippian age Before After Edited April 9, 2012 by Crinoid Queen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 So far all I have to say is...Yummy!! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micropterus101 Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Prepped out this Maeandricampus Triangulum crab yesterday this ones going into my collection. I found it in the lincoln creek formation approxamately 32 million years old of Washington state. fossil crabs website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Fossil Wood Location: West Runton, Norfolk - UK Formation: Cromer Forest Bed Age: 700,000 to 500,000 years old - Quaternary period Date Found: 5/4/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) I will also add a nice echinoid Echinocorys - Flint Echinoid Location: West Runton, Norfolk - UK Age: Cretaceous Date: 5/4/12 Edited April 13, 2012 by Kosmoceras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt. Nemo Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Found April 18 in France. Eggshells bird lake (type Palaelodus) on a matrix with exceptional traces of rushes from the Oligocene. Collection & Exchanges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 (edited) This little guy was found on the shore of Lake Erie. The weather was nasty....rain, snow, sleet, and 40 degrees F. Oh yeah.....I fell in the creek while crossing. The cliffside was very wet with the result being that any slab extracted was covered in mud. In fact, I almost heaved this piece over my shoulder, but before I could complete the swing, my eye caught a faint outline under the mud. I finally packed it in for the day when there was so much mud on my hammer and chisel that I could hardly hold them. I have many Phacops rana from this site and quite a few Greenops pygidiums and a couple of crushed cephalons. I am very proud of this as it is my first complete Greenops .......well, 95% complete. Details: Greenops barberi 1" long. Found on March 31, 2012. Lake shore of Lake Erie at the mouth of 18 Mile Creek, Hamburg, New York. Prepped on April 3, 2012. A light washing and a brief dusting with air abrasive. Middle Devonian Hamilton Group Ludlowville Formation Wanakah Shale Member I hope that you enjoy it. Tom Edited April 23, 2012 by TOM BUCKLEY AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xonenine Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 congratulations on your Greenops Tom! It can certainly be a difficult trip to the mouth of the Lake some days, I have wound up flat on my back in the mud there... didn't drop my coral tho! "Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile." Lepidus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 congratulations on your Greenops Tom! It can certainly be a difficult trip to the mouth of the Lake some days, I have wound up flat on my back in the mud there... didn't drop my coral tho! Thanks. I've ended up on my back in more places than I care to remember. Was never knocked unconscious though. But there's always the next time. :lol: Tom AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve71 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 found this april 18th my guess its a mastadon tusk and tooth in aransas co tx. this is a pic insitu of the tusk, both pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve71 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Prepped out this Maeandricampus Triangulum crab yesterday this ones going into my collection. I found it in the lincoln creek formation approxamately 32 million years old of Washington state. sweet crab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squalicorax Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 that is a nice greenops Tom My Flickr Page of My Collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79424101@N00/sets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) Trilo and Mung Beans My first fossil trip of the yr... Went to Arkona today and found a tiny beauty... April 22, 2012 Trilobite enrolled: Eldredgeops rana Mid Devonian Hamilton Group Peter Edited April 23, 2012 by pleecan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Trilo and Mung Beans My first fossil trip of the yr... Went to Arkona today and found a tinyt beauty... April 22, 2012 Trilobite enrolled Mid Devonian Hamilton Group Peter Agreed... Beautiful Bug... Congrats Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Thanks Scott! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) Nice little trilo, and nice presentation, pleecan. Here is my entry... a little paleolagus skull (missing braincase and schnozz), jaws and foot. Paleolagus haydeni ( I think that's the species), rabbit White River Fm Oligocene Converse Co, Wyoming Collected by me on 21 April 2012, prepped on 21 and 22 april 2012. first photo shows what I found in the field (if you read my field trip report these will look familiar) And here is the prepped piece: Edited April 23, 2012 by jpc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kg1 Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Found Saturday morning 4-21-12 Porpoise skull from the Astoria formation Oregon coast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kg1 Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 back view of the porpoise skull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Thanks for the kind comments JPC... best wishes on your vertebrate entry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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