June 2020 Vertebrate Fossil Of The Month Poll

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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. Placoderm fish (Cowralepis mclachlani) - ~385 Ma (Middle Devonian); Merriganowry Shale Member of the Dulladerry Volcanics - Central West NSW, Australia

 

2. Conodont assemblage (possibly articulated) - Excello Shale Member, Carbondale Formation (~310 Ma, Middle Pennsylvanian) - LaSalle County, Illinois

 

3. Conodont S segment (Gondolella sp?) - Pennsylvanian, Stark Shale Member - Kansas City, Missouri

 

4. Columbian Mammoth neonatal (possible prenatal) tooth - Pleistocene, Bone Valley - Florida

 

5. Ptychodus cf. decurrens hybodont shark tooth - Cretaceous, Cenomanian - Cap-Blanc-Nez, France

 

6. Eugeneodontida (possibly Caseodus sp.) shark teeth (associated teeth with cartilage/skin impressions) - Upper Pennsylvanian, Stark Shale Member - Jackson County, Missouri

 

7. Bos primigenius (bison) skull - Pleistocene - Góra Kalwaria, Poland

 

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We got ourselves a real contest this month. Always nice to see our members finding spectacular drool-worthy entries and often these run away with the voting. This one will have the entrants on the edge of their seat for some time I suspect. Really nice diversity again (and an unprecedented wealth of conodonts this time). 

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken