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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds.
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This is the official The Fossil Forum Find of the Month winner's gallery. A few suggestions by Auspex led to this Gallery of the Find Of The Month winners, but the Fossils will speak for themselves. Although it is November 2010, we want to thank again all who have shared their finds and knowledge in the contests. Now, we present to you the Winning Fossils from the beginning. Enjoy!
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds. Entries will
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds. Entries will be taken until 11:59
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds. Entries will be taken until 11:59
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualificat
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encoura
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better docume
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our s
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds.
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds.
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Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends May 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Pathological Carcharodon carcharias shark tooth- Miocene-Pleistocene - Savannah River, Georgia 2. Enchodus fish jaw - Cretaceous, Cenomanian - Cap-blanc-Nez, France 3. Ikamauius ensifer sawshark rostrum and associated teeth in a concretion - Mid Miocene - Canterbury, New Zealand 4. Russellosaurus coheni (juvenile) mo
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April 2022 Invertebrate / Plant Fossil Of The Month Poll
digit posted a topic in Fossil of the Month
Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends May 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Androgynoceras maculatum ammonite - Lower Jurassic (Lower Lias) - Holderness Coast, Mappleton, West Yorkshire, UK 2. Holaster subglobosus echinoid - Cretaceous, Cenomanian - Cap Blanc Nez, Northern France 3. Pearls in Exogyra oyster - Late Cretaceous- Monmouth County, New Jersey 4. Alnus or Betula inflorescence (both male -
REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds. Entries will
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Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends April 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Peripristis semicircularis shark tooth - Pennsylvanian, Limestone Member of the Bond Formation - Oglesby, Illinois 2. Glikmanius occidentalis cladodont tooth - Late Pennsylvanian (Finis Shale; Graham Formation) - Jacksboro, Texas 3. Chondrichthyan tooth (Thrinacodus sp.?) - Late Pennsylvanian, unnamed black shale member of the Bond
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March 2022 Invertebrate / Plant Fossil Of The Month Poll
digit posted a topic in Fossil of the Month
Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends April 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Murex spinicosta & Bolinus brandaris gastropods - Pliocene - Southwest France 2. Echinocorys edhemi regular echinoid - K/Pg boundary, Danian, Byala Formation - Varna Oblast, Byala, Bulgaria 3. Canadoceras yokoyamai ammonite - Early Campanian, Haslam Formation - Near Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada 4. Periarch -
REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds. Entries will be taken until 11:59
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better docume
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Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends March 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Dipnoi indet lungfish tooth - Devonian, Famennian (372.2-358.9 Ma) - Ardennes, Belgium 2. Unidentified tooth - Cretaceous - NW Queensland, Australia 3. Mammuthus columbi mammoth skull segment with ear bone - Pleistocene - Brazos River, southeast Texas 4. Ischyodus bifurcastus chimaeroid fish spin
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February 2022 Invertebrate / Plant Fossil Of The Month Poll
digit posted a topic in Fossil of the Month
Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends March 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Androgynoceras maculatum ammonites - Jurassic, Lower Lias, Sinemurian - Robin Hoods Bay North Yorkshire, UK 2. Lingula sp. brachiopod and Mazopherusa prinosi annelid worm - Pennsylvanian, Francis Creek Shale - Braceville, Illinois 3. Architarbus rotundatus spider - Pennsylvanian, Francis Creek Shale - Mazon Creek, Grundy County, -
My question is this: Is it too late to enter for the FOTM? Just in case, I'll go ahead and write up my entry: Here are my October Fossil of the Month entries. These were found between Oct 5-8 1st: A complete (well, 98%) Olenellus clarki with both positive and negative. In 8 days of digging and splitting this is the only complete trilobite to split out cleanly and there may be only 3 others (partially buried) 2nd: A larger slab with 31 cephalons (compete and partials) and 1 possible complete trilobite (partially buried). This is by far the largest coll
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January 2022 Invertebrate / Plant Fossil Of The Month Poll
digit posted a topic in Fossil of the Month
Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends February 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Syncarid shrimp (maybe Acanthotelson stimpsoni or Paleocaris typus) - Pennsylvanian, Francis Creek Shale - Mazon River, Morris, Illinois 2. Annularia inflata (Calamites foliage whorl) - Pennsylvanian, Francis Creek Shale - Grundy County, Illinois 3. Echinolampas hemisphaerica echinoid - Miocene, Serravallian - Aquitaine, France- 1 reply
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Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends February 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Metatheria (marsupial) tooth - Late Cretaceous, Aguja Fm (~82-77 Ma) - Brewster County, Texas 2. Nannippus sp. (Presently unnamed; Hulbert, 1987) molar - Miocene, Clarendonian Land Mammal Age - Brazos River, Southeast Texas 3. Brachauchenine pliosaur tooth - Cretaceous, Berriasian, Vectis Fm- Yaverland, Isle of Wight, UK
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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our s
