PFOOLEY Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Invertebrate Discovered March 28, 2021 Romaniceras mexicanum Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Blue Hill Mbr. of the Carlile Shale Sandoval Co. NM 3 9 "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 That'sa big Calamari!! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 (edited) I have a question, if we only find out something is worth entering after the month we found it, does it still count? as in we thought it was something common but ended up being something worth putting up Edited March 30, 2021 by will stevenson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 1 minute ago, will stevenson said: I have a question, if we only find out something is worth entering after the month we found it, does it still count? A new identification of a Fossil found in a previous month does not make it eligible for entry in the current month's contest. It could have been entered in the month it was found with a generally accepted common name. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 17 minutes ago, JohnJ said: A new identification of a Fossil found in a previous month does not make it eligible for entry in the current month's contest. It could have been entered in the month it was found with a generally accepted common name. Thanks for your answer John, i should have worded my question better if one month we find what we thought was something fairly ordinary, and didn't enter it, and the next month we found out it was actually worth entering, is it allowable to enter it. (also just to clarify, this doesn't apply to me i was just wondering if identification would be treated similarly to preparation) thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Just now, will stevenson said: Thanks for your answer John, i should have worded my question better if one month we find what we thought was something fairly ordinary, and didn't enter it, and the next month we found out it was actually worth entering, is it allowable to enter it. (also just to clarify, this doesn't apply to me i was just wondering if identification would be treated similarly to preparation) thanks again The short answer is, "no". Again, learning a more precise identification doesn't make it now eligible. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 1 minute ago, JohnJ said: The short answer is, "no". Again, learning a more precise identification doesn't make it now eligible. ok thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 I went collecting at the end of February the year before last and found some amazing things that i would have loved to enter into Fossil Of The Month. By the time I got home it was March. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 2 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said: I went collecting at the end of February the year before last and found some amazing things that i would have loved to enter into Fossil Of The Month. By the time I got home it was March. The inconveniences of poor cell phone coverage and local internet access will sometimes cross paths with bad timing. Fortunately, it is rare. 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeisTravis Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) My first Meg I’ve found! I was elated to pull this guy out of the sifter! Nothing like the feeling(except if I found a big Meg lol). Oh and it measures .72”! Date of Discovery :03/15/2021 Scientific and/or Common Name:Megalodon Geologic Age or Geologic Formation:Miocene State, Province, or Region Found: Arcadia, Florida, USA Edited March 31, 2021 by MeisTravis 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonehunter Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Sooooo excited!! Thanks to the help of many forum friends, I respectfully submit this coprolite filled with conodont segments! It is my understanding that the brown matrix is the phosphate stool, and like modern day stools, "teeth" aren't digested well.....To think that 300mya some fish/predator caught, killed, ate, digested, then excreted what it couldn't digest!!- Boyhood imagination perpetuated!!!......Soooooo cool!!!!, really, SOOOOOOOO Cool!!!! thanks for looking! Bone Date of Discovery- 3/29/2021 Common/Scientific Name Coprolite comprised of conodont elements Geologic age or Geologic Formation-Stark Shale Member (between Winterset and Bethany falls limestone)-Pennsylvanian State, Province or Region Found- Kansas City, Missouri USA 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Hi guys, if anyone has a better ID for this, I’d love to know At bracklesham bay, bones of anything other than fish are very rare, I’ve talked to some people who’ve collected there may times a year for decades and only found a few. this is most likely from a crocodile or turtle. Date of Discovery- 30/3/2021 Common/Scientific Name phalange of turtle/crocodile Geologic age or Geologic Formation-Lutetian - Earnley Formation State, Province or Region Found- Bracklesham Bay, Sussex, UK 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Found another sweet little find looking through matrix I brought home, these are fairly rare to my knowledge @fossilsonwheels you might like to see this Date of Discovery- 3/30/2021 Common/Scientific Name Rhizoprionodon ganntourensis (used to be scoliodon) Geologic age or Geologic Formation-Lutetian - Earnley Formation State, Province or Region Found- Bracklesham Bay, Sussex, UK 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSMJake Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 I went back and forth about submitting this because of the interval between discovery and prep completion (the preparator wasn’t able to get to it until recently and I didn’t want this job rushed). I humbly withdraw if deemed ineligible. Date of Discovery- 7/7/20 (prep completed 3/29/21) Common/Scientific Name Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis Geologic age or Geologic Formation Lance State, Province or Region Found Weston Co, WY 4 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkdoctor Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Thanks @GeschWhat and @digit for the consult on this piece! Found: 3/21/21 Name: Bitten coprolite, aka Dentalite Description: Shows multiple bites from multiple critters of different size. Also shows bite activity on both top and bottom. Several of the bites seem to be from vertebrates Formation: Bed 3, Calvert Formation Age: Miocene Location: Central Virginia Length: ~1 3/8" 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnbuckeye Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 CUTEST FOSSIL OF THE MONTH!!!! Nothing like a last minute entry. It was not my intent, but my wife "forced" me to enter this. Of all of my collected fossils, she says this is her favorite. Obviously she likes petite things and felt this was cute enough to receive a vote or two. So here I am!! I believe this is Not cleaned up completely due to time constraints. Coincidentally, @connorp won the FOTM just 30 days ago with a similar trilobite, Anataphrus vigilans. Can the same species of trilobite win 2 months in a row?? We will see, but I hope not.... the conodont coprolite is deserving!!!! Don't tell my wife I said this. @Malcolmt prepped the winning trilobite (great job) and added a comment that he was still looking for one of these bugs. So I mailed him a grade B specimen that I had up at the house. My purpose for going to this site was to hopefully find him a better bug than was presented and after spending 5 hours scouring the site, I returned home, dejected, having failed to find an Anataphrus. At least until I took my morning coffee down to my "fossil room" to look over my finds. Sipping my morning brew, I separated the fossils into trilobit piles, cephalopod piles, brachiopod piles ............Then grabbed the brachiopods to clean up a little and decide which to keep. Lo and behold, this LITTLE guy was hiding in a piece of matrix amongst the brachiopods! My wife is correct, it is SO CUTE!!!!!! And no, Malcolmt, my wife won't let me send it to you!!! I will just have to go fossiling again soon to see if another one is there! Collected on 3/30/2021 Anataphrus vigilans trilobite Lower Maquoketa Formation, Ordovician. From NE Iowa. Look close. The trilobite is sitting on top of a piece of Isotelus that I also found that day. What a variation of trilobite size. Here it is on a ruler. And a few close ups. My fingerprints are about as large as the trilobite grooves. 4 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoNoel Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 1 hour ago, DSMJake said: I went back and forth about submitting this because of the interval between discovery and prep completion (the preparator wasn’t able to get to it until recently and I didn’t want this job rushed). I humbly withdraw if deemed ineligible. Date of Discovery- 7/7/20 (prep completed 3/29/21) Common/Scientific Name pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis Geologic age or Geologic Formation Lance State, Province or Region Found Weston Co, WY I remember when you found this, I was so jealous! Looks like it came out great! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 14 minutes ago, minnbuckeye said: CUTEST FOSSIL OF THE MONTH!!!! Nothing like a last minute entry. It was not my intent, but my wife "forced" me to enter this. Of all of my collected fossils, she says this is her favorite. Obviously she likes petite things and felt this was cute enough to receive a vote or two. So here I am!! I believe this is Anataphrus vigilans trilobite from the lower Maquoketa Formation, which is Ordovician. It was collected on 3/30/2021 in NE Iowa. Not cleaned up completely due to time constraints. Coincidentally, @connorp won the FOTM just 30 days ago with a similar trilobite, Anataphrus vigilans. Can the same species of trilobite win 2 months in a row?? We will see, but I hope not.... the conodont coprolite is deserving!!!! Don't tell my wife I said this. @Malcolmt prepped the winning trilobite (great job) and added a comment that he was still looking for one of these bugs. So I mailed him a grade B specimen that I had up at the house. My purpose for going to this site was to hopefully find him a better bug than was presented and after spending 5 hours scouring the site, I returned home, dejected, having failed to find an Anataphrus. At least until I took my morning coffee down to my "fossil room" to look over my finds. Sipping my morning brew, I separated the fossils into trilobit piles, cephalopod piles, brachiopod piles ............Then grabbed the brachiopods to clean up a little and decide which to keep. Lo and behold, this LITTLE guy was hiding in a piece of matrix amongst the brachiopods! My wife is correct, it is SO CUTE!!!!!! And no, Malcolmt, my wife won't let me send it to you!!! I will just have to go fossiling again soon to see if another one is there! Mike. Please use the Format listed in the rules. Thanks. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaacTheFossilMan Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Bit of a late entry here, hope I don't get told off! Better late than never, hey? This is a large clump of coalified driftwood I found the other day. It is the largest I have ever found, and you can see some quite extraordinary preservation levels within some of the chunks, even preserving grain, and, in some cases, cell structure! Amongst the wood, there are hundreds of tiny shells, large shells, broken shells, whole shells, etc etc! There were also a couple beautiful whole gastropods, which, I had to get out! Also, lots of crinoids, which is really fascinating, bearing in mind that crinoids have been found hanging from the bottom of floating wood! Enough gibber gabber, here we go: • Date of Discovery (month, day, year) = 03/31/2021 (dd/mm/yyyy is better!) • Scientific and/or Common Name = coalified (drift)wood • Geologic Age or Geologic Formation = Callovian - Oxfordian (166.1 - 157.3 mya) • State, Province, or Region Found = The Cotswolds, England, UK And now for the fossils within! And some sea snails in it, to finish off! Hope you all enjoy my entry of the coalified driftwood! I personally think it's awesome, as it's a preserved micro-ecosystem of crinoids, wood, sea snails, gastropods... Enjoy! 2 3 ~ Isaac; www.isaactfm.com "Don't move! He can't see us if we don't move!" - Alan Grant Come to the spring that is The Fossil Forum, where the stream of warmth and knowledge never runs dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) Although my submission is a lowly gastropod, it has some interesting pathology. Discovered March 7, 2021 Pathological Strombus floridanus Upper Pliocene Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Sarasota County, Florida USA Damage to its mantle by a predator did not kill it, but definitely affected its morphology. Pictures of the shell and comparison to a normal individual from the same locality. Edited April 1, 2021 by Fossildude19 3 3 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 9 minutes ago, MikeR said: Although my submission is a lowly gastropod, it has some interesting pathology. Discovered March 7, 2021 Pathological Strombus floridanus Upper Pliocene Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Sarasota County, Florida USA Damage to its mantle by a predator did not kill it, but definitely affected its morphology. Pictures of the shell and comparison to a normal individual from the same locality. that was not a happy snail 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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