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2012 Vertebrate Fossil Of The Year!


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2012 Vertebrate Fossil Of The Year!  

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    • 1. Iniopterygian Shark - (Pennsylvanian) - Illinois, USA
      5
    • 2. Juvenile Mammut Mastodon Jaw - (Pleistocene) - Florida, USA
      11
    • 3. Tyrannosaurus Rex Tooth - (Late Cretaceous) - Montana, USA
      3
    • 4. Partial Limnomis delaneyi Fish - (Devonian) - Pennsylvania, USA
      2
    • 5. Partial Triceratops skeleton - (Cretaceous) - Montana, USA
      19
    • 6. Protoshyraena perniciosa Skull - (Late Cretaceous) - Kansas, USA
      1
    • 7. Baby Xiphactinus Fish Jaw - (Late Cretaceous) - Kansas, USA
      24
    • 8. Silurus Fish - (Miocene) - Ardèche, France
      8
    • 9. Albertosaurus Teeth - (Cretaceous) - Alberta, Canada
      0
    • 10. Mammut Mastodon Tooth - (Pleistocene) - Texas, USA
      0
    • 11. Partial Oreodont skeleton w/ Bite Mark - (Oligocene) - Nebraska, USA
      3
    • 12. Myliobatis Stingray Mouthplate - (Paleocene) - Maryland, USA
      3


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It's time to decide your favorite vertebrate fossil from 2012! Take your time and read through all the entries before you make your decision. What do you think deserves the title of the 2012 Vertebrate Fossil of the Year?

The voting will end on Monday, January 28th. You can vote in our other contest HERE.

January 2012 VFOTM

1. Iniopterygian Shark - (Pennsylvanian) - Illinois, USA

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February 2012 VFOTM

2. Juvenile Mammut Mastodon Jaw - (Pleistocene) - Florida, USA

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March 2012 VFOTM

3. Tyrannosaurus Rex Tooth - (Late Cretaceous) - Montana, USA

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April 2012 VFOTM

4. Partial Limnomis delaneyi Fish - (Devonian) - PA, USA

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May 2011 VFOTM

5. Partial Triceratops skeleton - (Cretaceous) - Montana, USA

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June 2012 VFOTM

6. Protoshyraena perniciosa Skull - (Late Cretaceous) - Kansas, USA

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July 2012 VFOTM

7. Baby Xiphactinus Fish Jaw - (Late Cretaceous) - Kansas, USA

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August 2012 VFOTM

8. Silurus Fish - (Miocene) - Ardèche, France

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September 2012 VFOTM

9. Albertosaurus Teeth - (Cretaceous) - Alberta, Canada

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October 2012 VFOTM

10. Mammut Mastodon Tooth - (Pleistocene) - Texas, USA

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November 2012 VFOTM

11. Partial Oreodont skeleton w/ Bite Mark - (Oligocene) - Nebraska, USA

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December 2012 VFOTM

12. Myliobatis Stingray Mouthplate - (Paleocene) - Maryland, USA

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Sweet! This contest is always so cool! Such amazing fossils, how does one choose!

"They ... savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things."

-- Terry Pratchett

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wow, I forgot how many awesome FOTM there were for 2012, this is actually going to be a very hard choice. Good luck to everyone :)

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Wow. That's all I have to say... Wow.

And "What the heck am I going to vote for!?!?!?"!

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Another hard choice!

Congratulations to all who found these amazing things.

Regards,

    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

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