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Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. Poll Closes on September 9th. 1. Lepidendron cone - Westphalian, Upper Carboniferous - Lens, Northern France 2. Euproops danae - Mid Pennsylvanian, Francis Creek shale - Grundy Cty, Illinois, Mazon Creek.

Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. Poll Closes on September 9th. 1. Pelagosaurus sp. (crocodile skull) - Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic - Whitby, UK 2. Pectinodon bakkeri - Hell Creek Fm, Late Cretaceous - Garfield Cty, Montana 3. Glikmanius occidentalis - Deer Creek Fm, Pennsylvanian - Northwest Missouri

Help select the state fossil! There are nine candidates, and voting closes on September 30 KARE, Channel 11 Help Choose Minnesota’s State Fossil Minnesota is one of just seven US states without a state fossil. That’s why the Science Museum of Minnesota is leading the effort to name a fossil for Minnesota—and you can help! There are two important qualifications to be chosen as the Minnesota State Fossil: 1.The fossil needs to be found naturally in Minnesota (sorry, no T. rex here) 2. The candidate has to be old enough to be found as a fossil Yours, Paul H.

Maybe I missed it during the festivities and holidays over the changing of the years but did we not have a 2018 Fossil of the Year poll? I could only find the previous year polls when I looked.

As far as slabs are concerned, I've always had a burning question for you all: Do you prefer individuals preserved in a slab, or hash plates with many individuals of multiple organisms? I personally prefer hash plates, as it was an entire community of critters that lived together and died together. It is fascinating to think about what could have done them in at that point in time. And just for clarification to anyone who doesn't know, this is a hash plate: And this is an individual:

Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends Feb. 6th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE. 1. Allodesmus Cheek Tooth - Middle Miocene Round Mountain Silt Formation - Bakersfield, California 2. Associated Phytosaur Bones - Late Triassic Redonda Formation - Ragland, New Mexico 3. Shrew Mandible - Late Pleistocene - Florida 4. Shark Vertebra - Miocene Calvert Formation - Brownie’s Beach, Calvert County, Maryland 5. Pathological Hubbell Megalodon Tooth - Miocene Calvert Formation - Calvert Cliffs Maryland 6. Lower Lateral Megalodon Tooth - Miocene Calvert Formation - Calvert Cliffs, Maryland

There are many debates over nomenclature in the paleontological world, and although our say has little to do with any decision made, I thought it would be fun to see what it would be like if we did decide such matters. Today, I ask your opinions on one of these. This is the debate over the placement of the deceased shark that goes by the species name hastilis. After a lengthy talk on a random thread (sorry mods) with @Macrophyseter I thought it would be intresting to see others view points. You have three choices, Isurus the genus in which the makos sit, long held to be the genus where hastilis belongs, Carcharodon which is the genus of the great white which is widely held to be the successor of hastilis via escheri and hubbelli, or Cosmopolitodus the proposed Genus for hastilis, planus, escheri, and a few other sharks. Be sure to explain your reasoning below. Here is a picture of hastilis and Carcharodon carcharias partially for your reference and partially to show off As an added incentive, which ever one wins out will be on the label for hastilis in the evolution set of megalodon and the white shark I'm working on. Have fun!

I have been wondering for a long time what everyone's favorite geological age was, based on fauna among other things. I personally prefer the Cambrian, as it is the oldest period of trilobites, qnd it contains some of the most intruiging lifeforms ever known (Wiwaxia, Anomalocaris, Opabina, etc.). What is your opinion? Cast your votes in the poll and give your reasoning for your choice! Cannot wait to see what you have to say!

I have wanted to post this debatable topic here since I read up on Spriggina. I want to see your thoughts on the issue. Personally I'm in proto trilobite camp, but I am by no means an expert on this. Can't wait to hear your opinions!