2022 Vertebrate Fossil Of The Year Poll!

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Here we are with our 2022 VFOTY contest entries. These are all 12 of our VFOTM winners from 2022, listed in the order of the month they won. Carefully review these entries and vote for the one you think deserves the title of 2022 Vertebrate Fossil Of The Year!

 

Poll closes on the 25th of January just before midnight. You can also vote for the 2022 Invertebrate / Plant Fossil Of The Year contest HERE.

 

1. Metatheria (marsupial) tooth - Late Cretaceous, Aguja Fm (~82-77 Ma) - Brewster County, Texas

2. Mammuthus columbi mammoth skull segment with ear bone - Pleistocene - Brazos River, southeast Texas

3. Glikmanius occidentalis cladodont tooth - Late Pennsylvanian (Finis Shale; Graham Formation) - Jacksboro, Texas

4. Enchodus fish jaw - Cretaceous, Cenomanian - Cap-blanc-Nez, France

5. Nothosaurus sp. sauropterygian reptile skull - Triassic, Muschelkalk - Winterswijk, The Netherlands

6. Mazonova helmichnus (Amphibian Eggs) - Carboniferous, Francis Creek Shale - Pit 11 (Mazon Creek)  Braidwood, Illinois 

7. Mosasaur (Tylosaurus?) tail section - Pierre Shale, Campanian, Upper Cretaceous - South Dakota

8. Plesiosaurus sp. paddle bones/digits - Lower Jurassic (Toarcian), Whitby Mudstone Formation - Yorkshire Coast, Whitby, England

9. Ptychodus mortoni associated toothset - Upper Cretaceous (Santonian), Satan Tongue of the Mancos Shale - Sandoval Co., New Mexico

10. Basilosaurid indet.  whale tooth (P3 or P4 premolar) - Eocene, Castle Hayne Formation, Comfort Member - Jones County, North Carolina

11. Petalodus ohioensis cartilaginous fish tooth - Upper Pennsylvanian, Harpersville Formation - Coleman County, Texas

12. Penguin (taxon indet.) - Late Miocene, likely Greta Fm - Canterbury, New Zealand