digit Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 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, 2022 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! *********************************** Rules for The Fossil Forum's Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month Contests Find a great Vertebrate Fossil or Invertebrate/Plant Fossil! Only fossils found personally by you are allowed. NO PURCHASED FOSSILS. 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.) 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. 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). 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. You must include the Common and/or Scientific Name. You must include the Geologic Age or Geologic Formation where the fossil was found. You must include the State, Province, or region where the fossil was found. 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. 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.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimitris Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 Thought to start the month's entry. Last month we went to the East Rhodopes, a mountain covering most of SE and S Bulgaria. After splitting some stones under a cliff, a friend starting shouting and he said that I had found an amazing echinoid. Anyway, I could only see a small spot out of the rock and some numulites here and there but nothing interesting. He knew though, having visited the place numerous times. This Friday, I started cleaning with KOH and something interesting started showing. I finalized it with alum oxide blasting. Overall size, 2.4cm or almost an inch. First picture, after having started KOH treatment, second is a close-up and last overall onto matrix. Two more experienced friends suggested that the part missing is pathological. Edit: Second picture is with KOH, I uploaded them in wrong order. Date of Discovery (8th November 2022) • Rumphia sp • Oligocene • Kardzhali, Bulgaria 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamL Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 • Date of Discovery (month, day, year) 05/12/2022 Prepared 17/12/2022 By Malcolm Sharp • Scientific and/or Common Name Pseudolioceras lythense • Geologic Age or Geologic Formation Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic • State, Province, or Region Found Whitby, Yorkshire Coast • Photos of Find As Found 14 Yorkshire Coast Fossil Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Since there’s no other vertebrate fossils yet, and I quite like my Dire Wolf p2 I found yesterday… Date of Discovery: December 17th, 2022 Scientific and/or Common name: Canis dirus - Dire Wolf Geological Age and Formation: Pleistocene, Peace River member of the Hawthorne formation Location: Central Florida 10 1 Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMert Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 On 12/17/2022 at 6:35 PM, LiamL said: Lower Lias, Upper Jurassic Lower Lias is the opposite of Upper Jurassic 1 1 1 My sites & reports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 5 hours ago, RuMert said: Lower Lias is the opposite of Upper Jurassic Quite astute catch. Pseudolioceras lythense ammonites are found in the Bifons Zone in the Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic (merely a swap of directions which I can easily tweak). Always nice to have the best information here on the forum as these topics are archived and available to view for years.... Cheers. -Ken 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Gonna add in my little shark tooth for Fossil of the Month! Date of Discovery : December 10 • Scientific and/or Common Name : Odontaspis aculeatus • Geologic Age or Geologic Formation : Cretaceous, Ozan Formation • State, Province, or Region Found : Texas Size 1/4 inch 9 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 There's a tooth that means business--glad I'll never be on the receiving end of that one (unless I catch my finger on it while digging for fossils which I've done and drawn blood). Just a week or so left for this FOTM contest which wraps up 2022. Surely, we're not all holiday shopping and someone else out there has some entries for this month. Great entries so far but what else have you got? Cheers. -Ken 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fin Lover Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) Since you are asking for more, here you go: Date of Discovery: Dec. 17, 2022 Scientific and/or Common Name: Carcharoides catticus Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Oligocene, Chandler Bridge Formation State, Province, or Region Found: Summerville, SC These are apparently uncommon to rare and also delicate, so finding one in this condition is a treat (or, according to a post from @siteseer the day before I found this, "a collector's dream"). Once I cleaned the creek scum off, it was a beautiful silver color. Edited December 24, 2022 by Fin Lover Added another photo with different color background and lighting 9 Fin Lover My favorite things about fossil hunting: getting out of my own head, getting into nature and, if I’m lucky, finding some cool souvenirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikrogeophagus Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) It's a longshot, but here's my personal fossil of the month. I revisited an old Pawpaw site (where the ammonite in my pfp came from). I was worried it would be developed while I was gone, but it seems construction was slow. Not only that, but the site is 100x more productive since then! There were ammonites and crustacean bits everywhere. This specimen is my most detailed crab carapace from the hunt. I believe it's Xanthosia wintoni, but I have also seen the name Feldmannia wintoni and others thrown around as well. The carapace is only 15mm by 9mm, yet it is still extremely detailed. The face is especially well preserved. I think picking up blue crab from the market earlier that day gave me good luck Date of Discovery: December 21, 2022 Scientific and/or Common name: Feldmannia wintoni carapace Geological Age and Formation: Pawpaw, Upper Albian of the Cretaceous Location: Tarrant County, TX Edited December 22, 2022 by EPIKLULSXDDDDD Fixed genus name, thanks for the info y'all 1 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 1 minute ago, EPIKLULSXDDDDD said: It's a longshot, but here's my personal fossil of the month. I revisited an old Pawpaw site (where the ammonite in my pfp came from). I was worried it would be developed while I was gone, but it seems construction was slow. Not only that, but the site is 100x more productive since then! There were ammonites and crustacean bits everywhere. This specimen is my most detailed crab carapace from the hunt. I believe it's Xanthosia wintoni, but I have also seen the name Feldmannia wintoni and others thrown around as well. The carapace is only 15mm by 9mm, yet it is still extremely detailed. The face is especially well preserved. I think picking up blue crab from the market earlier that day gave me good luck Date of Discovery: December 21, 2022 Scientific and/or Common name: Xanthosia wintoni carapace Geological Age and Formation: Pawpaw, Upper Albian of the Cretaceous Location: Tarrant County, TX Whoa the detail on that is incredible! What a find! 1 2 Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 The species was originally assigned to Xanthosia, but it was revised several years ago and assigned to the (then) new genus Feldmannia, Very nice specimen! Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 28 minutes ago, EPIKLULSXDDDDD said: I believe it's Xanthosia wintoni, but I have also seen the name Feldmannia wintoni and others thrown around as well. Date of Discovery: December 21, 2022 Scientific and/or Common name: Xanthosia wintoni carapace Geological Age and Formation: Pawpaw, Upper Albian of the Cretaceous Location: Tarrant County, TX The name Feldmannia wintoni is getting thrown around with good reason! Congrats on the great find! Guinot, D., Tavares, M. 2001 Une Nouvelle Famille de Crabes du Crétacé, et la Notion de Podotremata Guinot, 1977 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). [A New Family of Cretaceous Crabs, and the Concept of Podotremata Guinot, 1977 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura).] Zoosystema, 23(3):507-546 PDF LINK Schweitzer, C.E., Feldmann, R.M., Franţescu, O.D., Klompmaker, A. 2012 Revision of Etyidae Guinot and Tavares, 2001 (Crustacea: Brachyura). Journal of Paleontology, 86(1):129-155 PDF LINK 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted December 23, 2022 Author Share Posted December 23, 2022 10 hours ago, Fin Lover said: These are apparently uncommon to rare and also delicate, so finding one in this condition is a treat I have found these in Cookiecutter Creek in Florida and they defied identification for some time as they are early and rare. Nice to see this oddity pop up here--congratulations for adding it to your collection. Cheers. -Ken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamL Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 1st December 2022 Dactylioceras Tenuicostatum Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic Runswick Bay, Nr Whitby, North Yorkshire, England 11 Yorkshire Coast Fossil Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 19 hours ago, LiamL said: 1st December 2022 Dactylioceras Tenuicostatum Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic Runswick Bay, Nr Whitby, North Yorkshire, England That reminds me, where is Terry Dactyl? Lovely amonite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamlambo Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 I finally found a fossil penguin in Aug this year and finished prepping it a few days ago. It's really well articulated and most importantly, it has the very diagnostic tarsometatarsus (TMT) bone preserved. The TMT was hiding underneath the tibiatarsus so it was very lucky to have it at all as it should by all rights have been outside of the concretion. A small section of the skull is also present. I used an air scribe and vinegar to prep the fossil. I'll be donating it to a New Zealand museum so it can be studied further. I'm not sure what species of penguin it is at this point. Here is a time-lapse of the prep: https://youtu.be/eBc82mnlZBU • Date of Discovery (month, day, year) Aug 2022, finished prep Dec 2022 • Scientific and/or Common Name: unknown fossil penguin (probably late Miocene in age) • Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: I suspect the Greta formation • State, Province, or Region Found: Canterbury, New Zealand As found on the beach Well articulated fossil penguin. The furcula (wish-bone) is broken and happened before it was fossilized. The tarsometarsus on the back of the concretion - it's the most diagnostic bone on a penguin and can help place it in the right spot in the penguin family tree. Wet from it's last water bath to remove any lingering vinegar 2 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikrogeophagus Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 @mamlambo No words… except congrats on the golden drool bucket award in a few weeks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 @mamlambo Incredible ! You guessed that it was a penguin from the beginning with just the little bits that went over ? Fantastic ! Coco 1 ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamlambo Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 33 minutes ago, Coco said: @mamlambo Incredible ! You guessed that it was a penguin from the beginning with just the little bits that went over ? Fantastic ! Coco I was lucky in that the bone size, texture and the shape of the one joint looked very much like penguin bone that I had seen online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 5 hours ago, mamlambo said: I finally found a fossil penguin in Aug this year and finished prepping it a few days ago. It's really well articulated and most importantly, it has the very diagnostic tarsometatarsus (TMT) bone preserved. The TMT was hiding underneath the tibiatarsus so it was very lucky to have it at all as it should by all rights have been outside of the concretion. A small section of the skull is also present. I used an air scribe and vinegar to prep the fossil. I'll be donating it to a New Zealand museum so it can be studied further. I'm not sure what species of penguin it is at this point. Here is a time-lapse of the prep: https://youtu.be/eBc82mnlZBU • Date of Discovery (month, day, year) Aug 2022, finished prep Dec 2022 • Scientific and/or Common Name: unknown fossil penguin (probably late Miocene in age) • Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: I suspect the Greta formation • State, Province, or Region Found: Canterbury, New Zealand As found on the beach Well articulated fossil penguin. The furcula (wish-bone) is broken and happened before it was fossilized. The tarsometarsus on the back of the concretion - it's the most diagnostic bone on a penguin and can help place it in the right spot in the penguin family tree. Wet from it's last water bath to remove any lingering vinegar snarge, with a find this amazing, noone else stands a chance! @digit can we get a "Penguin Fossil Of The Month" award for this instead and leave the rest of us with a chance? In all seriousness, that's an incredible find and an incredible prep job too - drool-worthy indeed! 3 1 Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted December 27, 2022 Author Share Posted December 27, 2022 You all have 4 days left in the month--step up your game. Cheers. -Ken 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingIsFishy Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Pentanogmius vertebral column Date found: Dec. 13, 2022 Date prepped: Dec 14-15, 2022 Scientific name: Pentanogmius Evolutus Formation: Smoky Hill Chalk (Niobrara Formation) Place of discovery: Graham County, Kansas (USA) 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 16 hours ago, mamlambo said: I finally found a fossil penguin in Aug this year and finished prepping it a few days ago. It's really well articulated and most importantly, it has the very diagnostic tarsometatarsus (TMT) bone preserved. The TMT was hiding underneath the tibiatarsus so it was very lucky to have it at all as it should by all rights have been outside of the concretion. A small section of the skull is also present. I used an air scribe and vinegar to prep the fossil. I'll be donating it to a New Zealand museum so it can be studied further. I'm not sure what species of penguin it is at this point. Here is a time-lapse of the prep: https://youtu.be/eBc82mnlZBU • Date of Discovery (month, day, year) Aug 2022, finished prep Dec 2022 • Scientific and/or Common Name: unknown fossil penguin (probably late Miocene in age) • Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: I suspect the Greta formation • State, Province, or Region Found: Canterbury, New Zealand What an awesome specimen, Morne! I know you've been after a penguin for some time now. But, boy, did it ever pay off! Spectacular! 1 1 3 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingIsFishy Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 2 minutes ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said: What an awesome specimen, Morne! I know you've been after a penguin for some time now. But, boy, did it ever pay off! Spectacular! Is your profile picture a xiphactinus tooth. If so, I found a xiphactinus tooth that looked exactly the same as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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