2010 Vertebrate Find Of The Year!

[JohnJ]

OK, it is time to decide your favorite Vertebrate fossil winner from 2010! We have had the chance to see some incredible finds from around the world; so this is going to be a tough decision. Which one do you think deserves the title: 2010 Vertebrate Find of the Year!

The voting will end on Wednesday, January 12th. You can vote in our other contest HERE.

January 2010 VFOTM

1. Plesiosaur tooth (Upper Cretaceous Navesink Fm.) - New Jersey, USA

February 2010 VFOTM

2. Rhincodon typus Whale shark tooth from the Miocene Pungo River Formation - NC, USA

March 2010 VFOTM

3. 4+" C. megalodon shark tooth from the Miocene Hawthorne Formation - FL, USA

April 2010 VFOTM

4. 25" Eurhinodelphis sp. dolphin skull found in the Miocene Calvert Formation - MD, USA

May 2010 VFOTM

5. Partial Mosasaur Skull found in the Late Cretaceous Ozan Formation - TX, USA

June 2010 VFOTM

6. Unidentified sea bird from the late Miocene / early Pliocene Tangahoe Formation - Taranaki, NZ

July 2010 VFOTM

7. Unknown species of fossil fish from the Miocene Clarkia Lagerstatten - ID, USA

August 2010 VFOTM

8. Unidentified dolphin skull found in the Miocene / Early Pliocene Tangahoe Formation - Taranaki, NZ

September 2010 VFOTM

9. Reptile Trackway from the Pennsylvanian exposures - MA, USA

October 2010 VFOTM

10. Notorhynchus primigenius shark tooth from the Middle Miocene (Helvetian) - Loupian, France

November 2010 VFOTM

11. Palaeoxyris shark egg case - part & counterpart (Upper Carboniferous Duckmantian) - UK

December 2010 VFOTM

12. Order Condylarthra – mammal jaw – (lower Paleocene Hell Creek Formation) – MT, USA

[JohnJ]

You got a bone to pick...get to it.

[jpc]

Wow...cool... I was the first one to vote... The one I voted for has 100% of the votes and I bet that if auspex votes next it'll still have 100%, for it is one wicked cool fossil. I'm glad my little mammal jaw didn't have to compete against most of these.

[Ludwigia]

This is going to be interesting. Now it's down to 25%. No sign of Auspex yet unless he's done something unexpected.

[Terry Dactyll]

Blimey... What a selection of material... how do you pick one of those... Good luck everyone :Thumbs Up:

[JohnJ]

From the low numbers of votes, it seems like some are taking their time with this decision in both contests.

Of the teeth, the banded meg is etched in my memory, but the skeletal fossils would buckle your knees if you found them too! I still haven't decided....

[Nandomas]

done... that was really a very difficult choice :hot: :hot:

Edited January 7, 2011 by Nandomas

[Kosmoceras]

Hard to choose, but done!

[ohiofossilhunter]

Wow so many good choices.

[JohnJ]

Two favorites have emerged - which will win?

[PaleoPastels]

It wasnt hard for me to choose at all! Good Luck everyone!!

[JohnJ]

Late in the poll and they are tied, again.

[Auspex]

Two words, people: "swimsuit competition".

[pleecan]

Mental grid lock so I am not going to vote!.... there, no more mental anguish.... they are all excellent.... (that goes for the invert also).... (< cowardly walks away in haste>....

[JohnJ]

Just a few more hours to get you vote in!