JohnJ Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Did you ever have your nose, hands, knees and feet on a good fossil exposure and wonder if the most fantastic thing you could ever find was just one millimeter under/in the ground...............? Have fun out there! Carefully read the rules below, make sure you include all the required information, and submit your fantastic fossils! Please remember that we recently introduced another qualification to the current rules. Make a note of Rule #5: Before and After Preparation photos must be submitted for Prepped specimens not found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds. Best of luck to all and good hunting! Entries will be taken through August 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.____________________________________________________________________________________Rules for The Fossil Forum's Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month Contests1. 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 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. Before and After Preparation photos must be submitted for Prepped specimens not found during the Month of the Contest.6. You must include the common or scientific name.7. You must include the Geologic Age or Geologic Formation where the Fossil was found.8. Play fair and honest. No bought fossils. No false claims.Shortly after the end of the Month, separate Polls will be created for the Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month.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! The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 This will be my first ever entry to FOTM. I found this slab of modiolopsis bivalves along with other fauna of the late Ordovician seas. The slab has plentiful modiolopsis. There are also isotelus maximus parts all over the place and some have been hashed up. There are also treptoceras, a bryozoan, gastropods cyrtolites and a tiny flexicalymene tail and much more. I found this slab when I was waddling on the waters of Mimico creek. I stumbled upon this cliff at the creek that had bedrock on it and it collapsed like a week ago or so leaving shale and other debris because of the recent rains we've been getting here in Toronto. Im still trying to figure out if this was a storm-blown mass death or a hash that collected at the bottom of the sea or something else because all, if not most, modiolopsis are in their complete whole shell (shells not separated) alongside with hashes of other creatures. Found: this Wednesday, August 06 2014, Mimico creek, Toronto, Ontario. Slab comes from the Georgian Bay Formation, late Ordovician period. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 (edited) More photos: Bryozoan Treptoceras crebiseptum Found the thing wet Edited August 8, 2014 by JUAN EMMANUEL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Isotelus parts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Hashed up Isotelus parts Cyrtolites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Plenty of modiolopsis!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Heres a modiolopsis that's preserved in diagonal position and is burrowed in the matrix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 The modiolopsises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 This one was preserved with the mouth slightly open Oh and another treptoceras! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 A very entertaining plate! If you'll excuse me, I have some more looking at it to do "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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Russell Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 The bar has been set! Finding my way through life; one fossil at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adron Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 (edited) hello, Up to now, this is my best find of the month . Somniosus microcephalus found: 3th August age: Pliocene family: Somniosidae location: Antwerp kind regards Aaron Edited August 12, 2014 by Adron 1 Nullus finis longius si quod facis delectaris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesuslover340 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 (edited) This is my first entry as well... Found on 8-9-14 (or 9-8-14 for the Australians here Actually....it'd be 10-8-14, what with the time difference ) at Black Cat Mountain in Clarita, Oklahoma. It's from the Haragan formation, early Devonian, and is a Machaeridian armored worm/Lepidocoelus species. Details of the trip I found it on can be found here: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/48757-fossil-hunting-at-black-cat-mountain/ Edited August 17, 2014 by Jesuslover340 1 "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."-Romans 14:19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesuslover340 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Slightly different lighting... : Had fun with the photo effects : "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."-Romans 14:19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busyeagle Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 hello, Up to now, this is my best find of the month . Somniosus microcephalus found: 3th August age: Pliocene family: Somniosidae location: Antwerp kind regards Aaron DSC_1002.JPG Nice! I always enjoy seeing the rare and interesting teeth that you find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyc Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 My entry was found August 6 of this month on the Brazos River in Texas. It is a proboscidean axis vertebra, undetermined as yet if it is mammoth or mastodon. It is pleistocene. Thanks for looking! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adron Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Nice! I always enjoy seeing the rare and interesting teeth that you find. thank you Nullus finis longius si quod facis delectaris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Me thinks August is going to be an interesting month for finds. Every one so far has been out of the ordinary. Keep it up! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam.morris08 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Here is my entry for the month It's a tragophylloceras and an androgynoceras from charmouth beach Lower lias, 190mya Found a month or two ago but only prepped this month. The fossil has nothing on it in the photos, only dry and with water for contrast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Invertebrate turrilites acutus americanus (Cobban & Scott, 1972) Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Paguate Sandstone Member of the Dakota Formation Discovered: July 26th, 2014 Prepped: August 18th, 2014 New Mexico, USA 1 "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilcrazy Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 (edited) I would like to submit a Mid-Pennsylvanian age Fish I found on 8/15/2014. This Pyritocephalus sculptus comes from the Cannel Coal below the Upper Freeport #7 Coal. The locality is the defunct Pre-Civil War coal mine spoils of Linton, Jefferson Co., Ohio. The Haplolepis fish is slightly over 2 inches in length. Photographed in Natural lighting Photographed in Tungsten lighting Technical drawing Edited August 20, 2014 by fossilcrazy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 That fish looks wonderful under a tungsten bulb! "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Every one of them looks like a winner so far!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Every one of them looks like a winner so far!!! I agree. It's a tough call already, and the month isn't even over....... ......now where's my insect fossil. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 My Invertebrate Entry: Alkaidia sumralli Found: August 13th, 2014 Lake Waco Research Area Grayson/Del Rio Formation Late Cretaceous Period Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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