August 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 September 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE

 

1. Gyracanthus (?) fish spine - Upper Carboniferous, Coal Measures - County Durham, UK

 

2. Dipterus cf. nelsoni lungfish toothplate - Late Devonian, Famennian - Namur Area, Belgium

 

3. Cretodus sp. (crassidens?) shark tooth - Late Cretaceous, Eagle Ford (~90 Ma) -  Post Oak Creek, Sherman, Texas

 

4. Ophthalmosauridae indet. ichthyosaur tooth - Late Jurassic, Tithonian, Epivirgatites Nikitini Ammonite Zone (~150 Ma) - Moscow, Russia

 

5. Ichthyosaurus sp. paddle - Lower Jurassic - Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK

 

6. Plateosaurus sp. rib and bone fragments. - Late Triassic - Frick, Switzerland

 

7. Mosasaur vertebra - Cretaceous, Ozan Formation - North Sulfur River, Texas

 

8. Lamniform shark vertebrae - Late Eocene / Oligocene, Pittsburg Bluff Creek Formation (33.9 - 55.8 Ma) - North Western Oregon

 

9. Syllomus aegyptiacus sea turtle - Miocene, Lower Calvert Formation (likely Bed 3b) - King and Queen County, Virginia

 

10. Phyllodus toliapicus (crushing tooth plate of a wrasse-like fish) - Early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation - Virginia

 

11. Procyon lotor (raccoon) molar - Miocene-Pleistocene (Hawthorn Group) - Peace River, Florida