cowsharks Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Finding a tooth like this one, I couldn't resist the temptation to submit it for VFOTM consideration. This is the most perfect Palaeocarcharodon tooth I have found in 16 years of collecting. Finding this tooth was a dream come true! Click here to see more about my find ....PaleoPerfection ... Tooth: Palaeocarcharodon orientalis "Pigmy White" Shark Date found: 07 Jan 2012 Length: 1 1/8" (large for this species) Late Palaeocene of Maryland Aquia formation Piscataway member zone "2" Daryl. Edited January 20, 2012 by cowsharks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I found this specimen in May of 2011 and I just got it back today from my preparator (1/20/2012) and would like to enter it in the contest for January. I found it lying in the stream with water running all around it. The shale block was split in half and I could see the profile of the nice complete trilobite inside and knew I found something special. I could see a second enrolled trilobite on the side of the matrix (7" x 6") but never thought there were more hidden inside. There are - 4 complete trilobites with parts of 3 more. There is a total of 8 cephalons, 16 eyes, 7 thoraxs, and 4 pygidiums. This specimen is made up of animals of all different ages in one place. ELDREDGEOPS rana. Nice complete trilobite - 1.7" Complete baby - .6" Big roller - 1.3" wide Loose cephalons - 6mm,11mm,16mm,23mm. Windom Shale, Middle Devonian, Livingston County, New York. Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 Mike, do you have a photo of the find prior to preparation? The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Mike, do you have a photo of the find prior to preparation? My preparator (Gerald Kloc) has them and will be emailing them to me soon. Im glad I told him to take some before he started prepping. Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 With all due respect to Niles Eldredge perhaps we can suspend typical convention for a brief moment: Phalanx of Phacops Congrats Mikeymig :bow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMNH Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Wow I love those trilos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I found this specimen in May of 2011 and I just got it back today from my preparator (1/20/2012) and would like to enter it in the contest for January. I found it lying in the stream with water running all around it. The shale block was split in half and I could see the profile of the nice complete trilobite inside and knew I found something special. I could see a second enrolled trilobite on the side of the matrix (7" x 6") but never thought there were more hidden inside. There are - 4 complete trilobites with parts of 3 more. There is a total of 8 cephalons, 16 eyes, 7 thoraxs, and 4 pygidiums. This specimen is made up of animals of all different ages in one place. ELDREDGEOPS rana. Nice complete trilobite - 1.7" Complete baby - .6" Big roller - 1.3" wide Loose cephalons - 6mm,11mm,16mm,23mm. Windom Shale, Middle Devonian, Livingston County, New York. Wow! Amazing trilos! Great preperation there, well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Life 42 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 My preparator (Gerald Kloc) has them and will be emailing them to me soon. Im glad I told him to take some before he started prepping. Great prep - I can just see them all milling around. I have a lot of great fossils but no trilo's! Very nice ...I'd rather be digging...Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 My preparator (Gerald Kloc) has them and will be emailing them to me soon. Im glad I told him to take some before he started prepping. I'm always amazed at how little is exposed sometimes when you guys find the Trilo's. SOmetimes it's just a small dark spec and when you're done prepping there's all kinds of stuff in there. Just don't prep it with all those squiggly lines - they make me dizzy Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 My Vertebrate entree for the month is a Chondrichthyes tooth, Janassa, 1.5 cm tall I was very happy to find this rare tooth complete while out collecting Upper Mississippian, Upper Chesterian, Upper Bangor Limestone Morgan Co., Al. found Jan. 16, 2012 Very neat and bizzare shark tooth. These type of teeth always make me wonder what the full dentition and jaw would have looked like, let alone what the shark might have looked like. Nice find. Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 The weather is not in favor of my finding the rest of my sea monster this month though I remain hopeful that one day I will add to this find. My submission for Vertebrate of the Month January 2012 Odontocete indet caudal vertebrae Middle Miocene Central Virginia, undisclosed creek bed Found January 2nd and 8th Ref: http://www.wellesley...ebral%20ost.pdf Hopefully you'll find more of this guy this Spring when the conditions are more conducive. Maybe if the crick gets shallow enough you'll be able to see some of it in-situ. If you haven't done so already, it might be a good idea to label all the pieces so you know how they fit together. Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolmt Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Mike, awesome plate of trilos, looks pretty much identical to the ones coming out of the Windom at Penn Dixie, except there are more of them on one piece of rock. I have yet to find more than one complete on a single layer of a piece of matrix. I have had blocks with multiple completes but they were in different layers of the rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolmt Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 (edited) That Penn Dixie plate is nothing to to cry about, much better than anything I have found there. I have a fair number of very inflated but twisted specimens from there, gives them a bit of character. I have never found a complete greenops in that local but complete Eldregeops are quite common. Definately a location that you need a large prybar at....... Edited January 22, 2012 by Malcolmt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Thought I would see who likes this portion of a Archaeocidaris sp. I found on Jan. 21,2011 at Lost Creek Dam in Jack County Texas. It's in the Finis Shale, which is Pennsylvanian. Some of the plates were shoved onto the back when it was crushed. At least 12 plates in all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaKoStar Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I would like to submit this giant hunk of Endoceras Protieforme...it is the widest nautiloid I have found yet! This monster may have been 3-4 feet long when alive! Georgian Bay Formation, Ordovician (445 mya), found on Jan. 7 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 My Vertebrate entree for the month is a Chondrichthyes tooth, Janassa, 1.5 cm tall I was very happy to find this rare tooth complete while out collecting Upper Mississippian, Upper Chesterian, Upper Bangor Limestone Morgan Co., Al. found Jan. 16, 2012 very rare find Congratulation, Archimede Nando Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slickflint Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 The trilos got my vote, lots of nice specimens, love the contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boneman007 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 (edited) Dogs! What a killer bunch of fossils. As of now, I have NO idea what to vote for. The shark teeth are incredible and that worm! My lord is that a piece! And those trillos! Even the echinoid is a heck of a find. I'm glad I haven't finished the prep on my pathologic Notopocorhystes dicrus crab. I think i'll wait until next month to finish it!! Edited January 24, 2012 by Boneman007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike from North Queensland Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 As I have just finished cleaning up some vertebrae I have decided to enter them in the find of the month. Date found 26-11-11 Date preped 26-1-12 Name Elasmosaur Age Albian Cretaceous Location Allaru Formation - North of Richmond Queensland Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 As I have just finished cleaning up some vertebrae I have decided to enter them in the find of the month. Date found 26-11-11 Date preped 26-1-12 Name Elasmosaur Age Albian Cretaceous Location Allaru Formation - North of Richmond Queensland Mike That would make a cool display with a picture of an Elasmosaur swimming behind it. Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 As I have just finished cleaning up some vertebrae I have decided to enter them in the find of the month. Date found 26-11-11 Date preped 26-1-12 Name Elasmosaur Age Albian Cretaceous Location Allaru Formation - North of Richmond Queensland Mike Awesome, Mike! Do you have any photos of them prior to preparation? The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crinoid Queen Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 My Invertebrate entree for the month is a Crinoid crown, Linocrinus cariniferous, 4 cm wide Middle Mississippian, Lower Monteagle Ls, St. Genevieveian Madison Co., Al, found Jan. 16, 2012 Beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuprestidSlayer Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I collected this nodule just before Christmas and stuck it in the freezer to start the freeze thaw cycle in the beginning of January. It cracked around the 8th and I opened this. It is a Xyuiolus millipede from the Pennsylvanian era found in Indiana coal mine tailing piles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgrilusHunter Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 The millipede gets my vote ... does bias matter BuprestidSlayer the new images look really great, especially the one of the legs! "They ... savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things." -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Thank You for your kind comments Piranha, Cow shark, and Crinoid Queen, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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