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Winner of the August 2021 Vertebrate Fossil Of The Month
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The winner of the August 2021 VFOTM goes to... Tyrannosaurus rex tooth - Late Cretaceous - Alberta, Canada Congratulations to @dingo2 !!! -
So, I have just found this highly-suspect fossil - my guess is a conodont. I saw it as I was examining pieces of shale, and thought it was worth looking at under the microscope. It seems to have the diagnostic features, even the transition of colors between the blue base and white tips. I was hoping for some of your options on it. If this is a conodont, it would be the first from this formation. My guess would be a Ozarkadina sp - it is a very common Silurian conodont here, and some of the elements look remarkably similar to my specimen. This specimen came from the very fossilifer
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Looking for unprepared vertebrate fossils
Natalie81 posted a topic in Member Fossil Trades Bulletin Board
Hello, Since all those covid restrictions I haven't got the opportunity to go look for fossils outside of Belgium. So most of our trips from the last year are almost exclusively in the devonian. To get a little change of this I was hoping to find some unprepped vertebrate material, it dousn't have to be complete and I am not afraid of some puzzel work, but the pieces need to be recognisable. I can offer a multitude of different fossils for trade. ( Ammonites, spiriferids, shark teeth, sea-urchins,...) Natalie -
Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends September 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Pachystropheus rhaeticus vertebrae - Triassic, Rhaetian, Westbury Formation (~210 Ma) - Aust near Bristol, UK 2. Herpetotherium fugax metatherian mammal - Oligocene, White River Fm, Orellan lnd mammal age - Converse Co, Wyoming 3. Hadrodus hewletti pycnodont fish tooth - Late Cretaceous (Ozan Fm) - Austin, Texas
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Hey guys, First, sorry I've been absent from the forums. After the death of @caldigger I just kinda fell off from the social aspect of it all. It's been a weird year and some change. Covid has effected us all in some form or other, the planet is basically on fire, and politics is eating us from the inside out. I've literally lost friend, figuratively and metaphorically from all of the above. In the time of my absence from the forums, I have been fossil hunting. I've only shared my experience with people that are personally close to me, mostly @Bone Daddy. But, I
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The winner of the July 2021 VFOTM goes to... Aspidichthys cf. placoderm armor - Late Devonian (Frasnian) Neuville Fm - Chimay, Belgium Congratulations to @Manticocerasman !!!
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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 August 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Aspidichthys cf. placoderm armor - Late Devonian (Frasnian) Neuville Fm - Chimay, Belgium 2. Phlebolepis elegans thelodont scale - Silurian (Pridoli) Leighton Formation - Pembroke, Maine 3. Parvodus heterodon hybodont shark tooth - Cretaceous, Barremian, Vectis Formation - Yaverland, Isle of Wight, UK 4. Theropod indet
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The winner of the June 2021 VFOTM goes to... Turrisaspis sp. dorsal median plate - Upper Devonian, Catskill Formation - Pennsylvania Congratulations to @JimB88!!!
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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 July 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Globidens sp. mosasaur tooth - Ozan Formation (late Cretaceous) - Fannin County, Texas 2. Pterosaur digit bone - Toolebuc Formation, Albian, Early Cretaceous - NW Queensland, Australia 3. Otodus naidini shark tooth - Early Danian (Pine Barrens Member, Clayton Fm.) - Central Alabama 4. Temnospondyl footprints (ichnofossil)
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The winner of the May 2021 VFOTM (finally ) goes to... Daspletosaurus sp. tyrannosaurid tooth - Late Cretaceous, Dinosaur Park FM - Steveville Area, Alberta, Canada Congratulations to @musicnfossils !!!
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May 2021 Vertebrate Fossil Of The Month Poll - SPECIAL RUN-OFF!
digit posted a topic in Fossil of the Month
Well, we seem to have a 3-way tie with some very diverse fossils--all spectacular and enviable finds but we need a single winner. To decide on the winner for this month's contest we're going to do a run-off contest among the 3 leading entries. Rather than another 9 days of voting we're going to have this contest run for the next 3 days to decide the ultimate winner for this month. Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! The poll ends June 14th (midnight EST). 1. Daspletosaurus sp. tyrannosaurid tooth - Late Cretaceous, Dinosaur Park FM - St- 3 replies
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The winner of the April 2021 VFOTM goes to... Peripristis semicircularis shark tooth - LaSalle Limestone (Late Pennsylvanian) - LaSalle Co., Illinois Congratulations to @connorp !!!
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Is this a partial skull? (from Pennsylvanian Shale; northeast Oklahoma)
Gramps posted a topic in Fossil ID
I found this broken nodule in an outcrop of Pennsylvanian shale in Northeast Oklahoma. I’m wondering if the fossil could be the upper part of a skull? Other common fossils from this site include fragmentary fish remains (e.g., teeth, spines, dermal denticles, and coprolites from sharks and other fishes), as well as invertebrate remains from ammonites, gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods, corals, and conularia. If this is a skull, would you guess it to be from a fish, amphibian, or reptile? I don’t see any traces of teeth in the nodule, but I can provide closer views of areas that might be o -
Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends June 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE 1. Daspletosaurus sp. tyrannosaurid tooth - Late Cretaceous, Dinosaur Park FM - Steveville Area, Alberta, Canada 2. Coprolite - Late Cretaceous, Ozan Formation - Fannin County, Texas 3. Sloth claw core - Pliocene/Pleistocene - Peace River, Zolfo Springs. Florida 4. Cryptodira protostegidae, protostegid sea turtle - Early Cr
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Hello, a friend of mine found some kind of large fossilized creature in a cave on Sand Mountain in northeast Alabama. It was buried in red clay. The rocks containing fossilized bone are broken into many pieces; he has collected hundreds of small to medium sized pieces and there are many larger ones still at the site. Most of the creature is still there. The rocks are a sandy yellow color and unusually light weight. I washed one of them (#28) and there was a lot of tiny bubbles forming in different places, showing that the rock is porous. Three of the pieces (see pic below) he
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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. Carcharodon carcharias/Extant Great White Shark - Pliocene Yorktown Formation, (3-5 Ma) - Green Mill Run, North Carolina 2. Indeterminate hadrosaurid articulated sacral vertebrae - Dinosaur Park Fm, (76.9-75.8 Ma) - Steveville Area, Alberta, Canada 3. Cretoxyrhina sp. lamniform shark vertebrae centrum - Cretaceous, Turonian - Travis County, Texas
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The winner of the March 2021 VFOTM goes to... Cretodus sp. shark tooth - Late Cretaceous, Eagle Ford Group - Denton County, Texas Congratulations to @sharko69 !!!
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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. Cretodus sp. shark tooth - Late Cretaceous, Eagle Ford Group - Denton County, Texas 2. Deltodus sp. shark crushing tooth plate - Mississippian, Burlington Formation - Henry County, Missouri 3. Carcharias sp. cf. C. acutissima shark tooth - Miocene, Serravallian - Department of Gironde, France 4. Otodus angust
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Winner of the February 2021 Vertebrate Fossil Of The Month
digit posted a topic in Fossil of the Month
The winner of the February 2021 VFOTM goes to... Cincosaurus cobbi trackways - Carboniferous Period, Pottsville Formation (358.9-288.9 Ma) - Central Alabama Congratulations to @Rockin' Ric !!!- 23 replies
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Winner of the January 2021 Vertebrate Fossil Of The Month
digit posted a topic in Fossil of the Month
The winner of the January 2021 VFOTM goes to... Megaloolithidae dinosaur egg - Upper Cretaceous, Campanian (74 Ma) - Bouches-du-Rhône, France Congratulations to @Pixpaleosky !!!- 20 replies
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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. Galeocerdo aduncus posterior tooth - Miocene (Burdigalian), Obere Meeresmolasse Formation - Bodenseekreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany 2. Cincosaurus cobbi trackways - Carboniferous Period, Pottsville Formation (358.9-288.9 Ma) - Central Alabama 3. Transitional Carcharadon sp. cf. C. hubbelli - Miocene, Greta Formation - Canterbury, New Zealand
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I found these two vertebrae together in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta. I’m wondering what they might be? I’m suspecting rather Champsosaur, turtle, or juvenile theropod. Any insight into the identity of these two elements would be great, thanks! @Troodon
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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. Tylosaurus scapula with shark feeding marks - Cretaceous, Ozan Formation (84-71 Ma) - North Sulphur River, Texas 2. Xiphactinus left maxilla & associated vert - Cretaceous, Ozan Formation (84-71 Ma) - North Sulphur River, Texas 3. Protohadros byrdi caudal vertebrae - Late Cretaceous, Woodbine Formation - North Texas
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2020 VERTEBRATE FOSSIL OF THE YEAR (VFOTY) The winner of the 2020 VFOTY goes to... Bird (Species unknown) - Eocene (52 Ma) - American Fossil Quarry, Wyoming Congratulations to @sseth!!!
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