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December 2021 - Finds of the Month Entries


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REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below.

Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! 

If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM.


Please pay special attention to Rule #5: 

Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT  found during the Month of the Contest.

In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds.


Entries will be taken until 11:59:00 PM EDT on DECEMBER 31, 2021

Any fossil submitted after that time, even if the topic is still open, will be deemed ineligible! 

 

Only entries posted with CLEAR photos and that meet the other guidelines will be placed into the Poll. 

Photos of the winning specimens may be posted to TFF's Facebook page.

 

Please let us know if you have any questions, and thanks for sharing more of your fossils and research this month.

 

Shortly after the end of the Month, separate Polls will be created for the Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month.

 

In addition to the fun of a contest, we also want to learn more about the fossils. 

Tell us more about your fossil, and why you think it is worthy of the honor. 


To view the Winning Fossils from past contests visit the Find Of The Month Winner's Gallery.

 

Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry!
Best of success to all, and good hunting!

 

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Rules for The Fossil Forum's Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month Contests

  1. Find a great Vertebrate Fossil or Invertebrate/Plant Fossil! Only fossils found personally by you are allowed. NO PURCHASED FOSSILS.
  2. Post your entry in the Find of the Month topic. Use a separate post for each entry. (Only two entries per member per contest category.)
  3. Your fossil must have been found during the Month of the Contest, or Significant Preparation * of your fossil must have been completed during the Month of the Contest.
  4. You must include the Date of Discovery (when found in the contest month); or the Date of Preparation Completion and Date of Discovery (if not found in the contest month).
  5. Before and After Preparation photos must be submitted for prepped specimens not found during the Month of the Contest. Please make sure you arrange for photos if someone else is preparing your fossil find and completes the prep requirements in the contest month.
  6. You must include the Common and/or Scientific Name.
  7. You must include the Geologic Age or Geologic Formation where the fossil was found.
  8. You must include the State, Province, or region where the fossil was found.
  9. You must include CLEAR, cropped, well-lit images (maximum 4 images). If you are proud enough of your fossil to submit it for FOTM, spend some time to take good photos to show off your fossil.
  10. Play fair and honest. No bought fossils. No false claims.

 

* Significant Preparation = Substantial work to reveal and/or repair important diagnostic features, resulting in a dramatic change in the look of the fossil. The qualification of Significant Preparation is decided at the discretion of staff. Any doubts as to the eligibility of the entry will be discussed directly with the entrant.

 

******* Please use the following format for the required information: *******

• Date of Discovery  (month, day, year) 

• Scientific and/or Common Name

• Geologic Age or Geologic Formation

• State, Province, or Region Found

• Photos of Find

 

 

(Please limit to 4 clear, cropped, and well-lit images.)

(If prepped, before and after photos are required, please.)

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I have an entry for this contest.

 

Date of Discovery: 12/04/21

Scientific name: Bellacartwrightia cf. phyllocaudata

Geological Age/Formation: Mahantango Fm., 387 mya

State: Pennsylvania

 

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3 minutes ago, digit said:

Nice! Thanks for kicking things off this month. ;)

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

Thank you! A nearly complete Bellacartwrightia is not easy to find. The trips to this site and to New York never yielded many specimens of this genus, but I guess I just got lucky!

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Here's my find of the month, possibly even year, a 8 1/2 inch prone Dipleura dekayi

 

 

Date of Discovery  12/14/21

Scientific and/or Common Name - Dipleura dekayi

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation - Moscow Formation

State, Province, or Region Found - New York

 

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Only trilobites this month! It’ll be a tough invert decision.

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So can you enter both a vertebrate and an invertebrate? I was confused if you could do both in the same month. 

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6 minutes ago, HynerpetonHunter said:

So can you enter both a vertebrate and an invertebrate? I was confused if you could do both in the same month. 

 

Yes.

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Well seeing as there aren’t many entries this month here I go ;) selachian remains were only reported from this formation in 2018 so not common for sure ! I collected a rock sample during my summer trip to the Isle of Wight and recently dissolved it, I was finding few 1-2 mm teeth so imagine my surprise when this popped out! :) A very rare species to my knowledge! Doesn’t look too impressive but makes up for it in rarity! I apologise for the photos but it was difficult to get the lighting right.

 

 

Date of Discovery  12/12/21

Scientific and/or Common Name - Synechodus tenuis

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation -   Ferruginous sands formation

State, Province, or Region Found - whale chine, isle of wight

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what the heck, I'm adding a couple of this months finds to the competition! 

 

 

• Date of Discovery  December 22nd 2021

• Scientific and/or Common Name: Pagurus banderensis

• Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Cretaceous, Glen Rose Formation

• State, Province, or Region Found: Texas

Size: 1 1/2 inch (30 mm)

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• Date of Discovery  December 4th  2021

• Scientific and/or Common Name : Archeolamna sp. 

• Geologic Age or Geologic Formation : Cretaceous, possibly Georgetown Formation?

• State, Province, or Region Found: Texas

Size: 1/4 inch (12mm)

 

I'm not 100% sure its Archeolamna, but it seems more like that genus than Leptostyrax which it also could possibly be. 

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16 hours ago, JamieLynn said:

 

• Date of Discovery  December 4th  2021

• Scientific and/or Common Name : Archeolamna sp. 

• Geologic Age or Geologic Formation : Cretaceous, possibly Georgetown Formation?

• State, Province, or Region Found: Texas

Size: 1/4 inch (12mm)

 

I'm not 100% sure its Archeolamna, but it seems more like that genus than Leptostyrax which it also could possibly be. 

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Looks a lot like Archaeolamna kopingensis :) (not sure I spelled that right)

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Date of Discovery: 12/20/21

Scientific and/or Common Name: Physogaleus contortus

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Pungo River Formation

State, Province, or Region Found: NC

Size: 1/2 inch (12.7mm)

 

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Date of Discovery: 12/20/21

Scientific and/or Common Name: Hempristis serra 

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Pungo River Formation 

State, Province, or Region Found: NC 

Size: 7/16 inch (11.1125 mm)

 

These fossils were found in some Aurora NC micro matrix that I purchased.

 

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Hello! I found this rather well preserved Fenestella sp. impression in what I believe to be chert.  I found the imprint of this bryozoan to be interesting, and deemed it worthy enough to submit it for this months entry! 

 

Date of Discovery: December 2nd 2021

Scientific/Common name: Fenestella sp.

Geologic age or Geologic formation: Pennsylvanian

State, Province, or Region Found: Missouri

Size: 1 and 1/2 inch (30mm)

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I’ll throw my hat in the ring for Vertebrate Find of the Month. This fossil is one I found at home by sifting through some fossiliferous matrix from the Aguja Formation.


Multituberculate (c.f. Meniscoessus sp.) incisor

 

Date of Discovery: December 24th, 2021

Scientific name: Multituberculata (c.f. Meniscoessus sp.)

Age: Cretaceous, Campanian - ~82-77 Ma.

Location: Matrix from the Aguja Formation, Brewster County, Texas, USA.

 

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Mammal material from the Aguja Formation is not well documented, and fossils from the Aguja Formation in general are hard to come by because most of it is within Big Bend National Park (this fossils is from private land though). I hope you will consider this cute little fossil for Find of the Month!

 

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Here's my personal FOTM at least -- at 1.91"/48.6 mm slant length and 1.38"/35.1 mm wide, it's a good sized Otodus for the area.

 

December 3, 2021

Otodus obliquus

Late Paleocene (Thanetian), Aquia Formation, Piscataway Member

Potomac River, Charles County, Maryland, USA

 

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