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July 2012 Finds Of The Month


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Let's give this a go!

Entries will be taken through July 31st. Please let us know if you have any questions, and thanks for sharing more of your fossils and research this month.

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

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

1. You find a great Vertebrate Fossil or Invertebrate/Plant Fossil! Only fossils found by you.

2. Post your entry in the Find of the Month topic. Use a separate post for each entry.

3. Your Fossil must have been found during the Month of the Contest, or the significant Preparation of your Fossil must have been

completed during the Month of the Contest.

4. You must include the Date of your Discovery or the Date of Preparation Completion.

5. You must include the common or scientific name.

6. You must include the Geologic Age or Geologic Formation where the Fossil was found.

7. Play fair. No bought fossils.

Shortly after the end of the Month, separate Polls will be created for the Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month. The maximum entries allowed by the Polling software will be selected for each contest by the staff.

In addition to the fun of a contest, we also want to learn more about the Fossils. So, only entries posted with a CLEAR photo and that meet the other guidelines will be placed into the Poll.

Within a few days, we will know the two winning Finds of the Month! Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry!

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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Thanks for putting this together Auspex!!

Here's my entery for the month: An ultra-rare baby Xiphactinus fish jaw!

Found- July 10th

Scientific name- Xiphactinus audax

Common name- (Baby) giant fish!!

Late Cretaceous, Niobrara Formation, Smoky Hill Chalk, Western Kansas, Gove county

Length of jaw- 4cm

Here you can see the only other one (bottom of the page)- http://oceansofkansas.com/xiphac.html

The fish would only have been about 1ft long in life (.3 meters), while the adults could grow up to 20ft (6 meters)!

Thanks for Reading

-Kris

Attached pics.

-The jaw

- Adult jaw compaired to baby jaw

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This is truly a one of a kind fish!

Update: Mike Everhart (adjunct curator of paleontology at the sternberg museum) recently said

"Nice.... A very young Xiphactinus.... and very rare in the chalk..."

From a guy that's seen it all, that's pretty cool!

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They are great!

I will add a serpulid to the list, it is about 5cm in length.

Annelid Worm: Serpula sulcata - (attached to a gryphaea shell)

Geological Age: Jurassic. 157 myo.

Stratigraphic Detail: Middle Oxford Clay

Locality: Yaxley, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK

Date of Discovery: 12/7/12

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Now we're cookin'! Two beautiful entries; one for each category.

Keep 'em coming! :)

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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  1. Vertebrate Fossil
  2. Found - April 27, 2012. Prep Completed July 11, 2012
  3. Mammoth Molar in Jaw Bone
  4. Location: Venice FL, “Bone Yard” Scubadiving
  5. The one on the Left weighs 12lbs and the right is 15lbs.

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Well, I can see it's going to be another one of those months. Again. Heads it's the fish, tails it's the mammoth...

Don

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Glad I didn't enter my fossil, doesn't stand a chance with these great entries. That is a good thing though. I can't wait to see what else other folks have to offer this month. Best wishes for all!

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Nice finds so far. I know I'll be hard pressed to find a winner... :o:envy:

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DEVONIAN BRITTLE STAR, CRINOID, AND PYRITIZED NAUTILOID. NEW YORK

Found this on 3/21/2012 and it was prepared on 7/19/2012. I posted a topic ( Do you see what I see) on this specimen before the prep work.

Thanks

Mikey

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Well I will do my best. I hope I do it right. I am very proud of this find.

Found 7/21/2012

Blue Shawnee creek, Cape Girardeau county Missouri

Devonian

Phacopidae Paciphacops

Found it in the creek gravel the prep is natural. Fossil is in chert.

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Robert
Southeast, MO

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Hello all.

Nice finds everyone to date and the month is still young!!!

I know that my two entries that are following (in this and in the next post) can't reach so high but they are possibly my best for this month and they worth the joy of the participation.

Both are marine, first representatives of these species in my collection and with no exact id. My apologies for this. I have searched on this thread in my available papers without any result. I didn't find them described in my island, as well.

Attached to this post is the pic of my first participation.

It's about a 7 cm long crayfish found on 02 of July in the late miocene sediments of middle Crete island, Greece.

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Astrinos P. Damianakis

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And here is my second participation.

It's about a 15 cm long strange pipefish found on 22 of July in the late miocene sediments of middle Crete island, Greece.

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Astrinos P. Damianakis

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FF members have had another excellent month!

Don't be shy; put your best finds forward!

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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Very kind of you, Peter!!! The fish is actually a puzzle...

Your trilo is amazingly detailed, the hole bug team powerful and the rest of the finds excellent!!!

A battle is on the road and what's still back....:)

Astrinos P. Damianakis

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Fish Fin

Bedfordshire, England

Lower Chalk (Middle Cenomanian)

(A.rhotomagenese Zone) Grey Chalk

Cretaceous 70 - 90 myo

Found 1st July

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I'm gonna throw the dice and give it a shot!

Pulalius Vulgaris, Invertebrate, Decapod

Lincoln Creek Formation, Oligocene

SW Washington State, USA

Prep started July 4th, 2012 - July 23, 2012

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein

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Wanted to add another angle of the same...

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein

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Here's my best find. A golden plate of pyritized plants from the far east :) Ferns are exceedingly rare in the formation, so this definitely did make it one of the best finds! ^_^

Pyritized Plant Slab, Upper Carboniferous (Mississippian), Huiyu, Mentougou, Beijing, China

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