August 2013 Vertebrate Find Of The Month

[JohnJ]

Your patience is appreciated. OK, see if you can hold your breath until you finish voting for your favorite Vertebrate find this month.

(Not responsible for fainting, damage to electronic equipment, turning blue, crying, or frustration while choosing.) The Poll ends September 13th. You can vote in our other poll HERE.

1. Somniosus microcephalus shark tooth - Pliocene - Belgium

2. Centrophorus sp. shark tooth - Pliocene - Belgium

3. Cretalamna appendiculata var. lata shark tooth - Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) Maastricht formation - Eben-Emael, Belgium

4. Amphiplaga brachyptera fish - Eocene Green River Formation - WY, USA

5. Partial juvenile pinniped skull - Miocene Astoria Formation - OR, USA

6. Great white shark tooth - Pliocene - NC, USA

7. Sperm whale tooth - Miocene / Pliocene - NC, USA

8. Mosasaur tooth - Late Cretaceous - NC, USA

9. Dipterus valencienessi lungfish - Devonian - Caithness (Highland), Scotland

10. Ischyrhiza mira sawfish rostral tooth - Late Cretaceous - TX, USA

11. Secarodus polyprion shark tooth attached to Ichthyosaur vertebra - Jurassic / Callovian Lower Oxford Clay - United Kingdom

12. Clupea sp. herring fish - Late Pliocene / Piacenzian - Crete, Greece

13. Carcharocles megalodon shark tooth - Miocene Choptank or Calvert Formation - VA, USA

14. Mammuthus columbi mammoth tooth - Pleistocene - FL, USA

[Kosmoceras]

Always read the small-print

[JohnJ]

Always read the small-print

No damages reported...so far.

[rylawz]

Mammoths FTW!!!!

[JohnJ]

Always read the small-print

No damages reported...so far.

(tick, ti-tick, tick)...Straight off the news feed...so far, only a few members have turned blue with no other minor injuries...voting was not involved. However, in other developments, 67 members have voted in this Poll....

[Regg Cato]

So many options...things are really close.

[shark57]

Nice competition going on! After 70 votes 1st place has 10, 2nd place 9, and three in 3rd place with 8! Has it ever been this close before? C'mon meg lovers, where are you? When was the last time a shark tooth won?

[rylawz]

Megs are nice but soo common. Proboscidea material is much more rare especially columbi

[JohnJ]

It seems the battle has gone underwater at this point....

[FossilDudeCO]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

my vote counts for 9......I feel sorry for that HIDEOUS guy in the picture on number 4.

Edited September 10, 2013 by Sully

[JohnJ]

95 votes so far...surely we can push that over 100.