Ramo Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I've been off here for a while, but I'm finally back. Lets see your best of 2014. I believe these are my top 3. Ramo For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 2014 was a lean year for me. My 'best' (i.e. favorite) find is probably this: This most likely is some form of phylloid algae. Frisbie Limestone, Pennsylvanian Miami County, Kansas Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 (edited) Cool topic Ramo. And beautiful finds! I love that associated vert plate. I'd have to say my most iconic find this year would be my Tully Monster. Due to it's poor preservation it's not the best looking piece......so i carved the exact shape of my find into leather to show Tully noobs what they are seeing. And i think my Lobetelson mclaughlinae (shrimp) is my "showiest" find this year. But....my very favorite find of 2014 goes to..........(some may say it's boring).......my Trigonocarpus sp. (Seed). It's big, showy, kinda rare, very well preserved and just cool. Edited January 3, 2015 by fossilized6s ~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...
Auspex Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 My choicest of 2014: They just don't come any better "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...
izak_ Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 (edited) Well, i'm going to have a bit of deciding to do… Good topic choice btw! Nice finds everyone! THIS IS ONE OF THEM: Dicroidium Triassic Turrametta head, Sydney, Australia Edited January 3, 2015 by izak_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesuslover340 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 2014 was really my 'first' year of being able to hunt, so some of my best are common and/or disarticulated, but nonetheless, my favorites/ "best" : This one is waiting to be prepped (Kettneraspis): "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 January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 (edited) These were prepped by jgcox-beautiful! : Great topic! Edited January 3, 2015 by Jesuslover340 "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...
jgcox Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 My best was my second Euryriptide from Ridgemont Quarry, Ontario here are a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgcox Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I also was given the best replica Arctinurus boltoni for christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I made a lot of nice finds this year, so I'm having difficulty deciding which ones I like the best At least I've managed to narrow it down to a top five, two of which were aquisitions. A trade with Mike Foley brought me a beautiful Colignonoceras woolgari and another with a colleague in Germany the Plegioceras coronata pictured next to it. The ones below them are all from the Wutach Valley. In order of appearance: Ludwigia haugi with a completely intact shell, a matrix block with macro and microconches from Ancolioceras opalinoides and the nautilus Digonioceras sp., which appears to be a first for that site and one of only a very few from southern Germany. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welsh Wizard Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Hi all My best find, in conjunction with my brother, in 2014 was this Lower Jurassic Theropod from the base of the Hettangian (right at the T-J boundary). It's still in the process of being described and hopefully will be made public in June 2015. It was found in the UK and here's some of the blocks as found: Regards Nick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amour 25 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Nice finds all., about all of mine were bought. Jeff Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Nice finds all., about all of mine were bought. Jeff Never mind that. It would nevertheless be nice to see your favorites. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Currently undescribed starfish: post-11650-0-16930500-1417005509_thumb.png Can you please post a higher resolution photo. Can hardly see anything. Looks like a postage stamp. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Hi all My best find, in conjunction with my brother, in 2014 was this Lower Jurassic Theropod from the base of the Hettangian (right at the T-J boundary). It's still in the process of being described and hopefully will be made public in June 2015. It was found in the UK and here's some of the blocks as found: 20140302_162055_resized.jpg Regards Nick Nick that's amazing....hard to believe there's a theropod hiding in those blocks cant wait to see it. Regards, Darren. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Now that's much better! Thanks! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Some really cool stuff folks! Here is what someday should be a very nice cretaceous lobster. Maybe even a double?!!! This concretion is from the Bear Paw and is a rather large concretion for a lobster, which is why im hoping for a double, but when I checked out this conc and removed some pieces just to see whats inside and how its situated I could see the intire end with a very nice tail! I didn't find this, I bought it from an old guy in his garage along with 5 others but this is the best looking so far. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesuslover340 Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Now that's much better! Thanks! Quite welcome! "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...
fossilized6s Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Anyone else wish to contribute? There were some epic finds in 14'. ~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...
jpc Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Nice finds, folks. Here is one of my favorites. It is an Eocene titanothere ankle... astragalus and calcaneum found a few inches apart, but they still articulate. Next year... wait...later THIS year, I hope to go find more of this guy. Others include the schwack of Eocene mammal teeth I got an a couple of anthills (see my post on that from about a month ago). There was a weird flat bone I got in my late Cretaceous bone bed. If I have pix, they are not on this computer, but it is also one of my faves of the year...and still unprepped. And my first trip on the Peace in FL. Yay. I went back to an older post to see what I had posted as Hopes For 2014, and I did OK on that front. Except that I had hoped to do more prep work... Fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoreBack Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 2014 was good to me with regard to fossils but this is the rarest "find" of the year. I found this tooth in NJ in a mixed lag deposit containing both Eocene and Miocene fossils and I had ID'd it as Hexanchus agassizii. When fellow forum members Non-Remanie and Marco Sr. saw it they put me in contact with Dr. Bruce Welton who correctly identified this tooth as Heptranchias Howellii. This was not the first time that Non-Remanie has helped me with IDs that I botched! The fossils everyone else have posted so far are beautiful and I wish that we had specimens like them here in NJ. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmshoemaker Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) 2014 has been a mixed year for me, my most memorable hunts thus far have been from this last year, but the overall quantity, and to a lesser degree the quality of my finds has been a bit less than previous years. That being said this is one of my favorite crinoids: And my first Isotelus to which I owe a huge thanks to Dan Cooper: Edited January 7, 2015 by Cryptidsaurian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtdauber Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 My favorite for the year was this Enchodus sp. skull from the Ripley Fm., Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian). But, I think my most interesting finds were these little crabs (Costacopluma cf. grayi) collected near the K-Pg boundary in south-central Alabama. The three crabs in the top row were found in the Prairie Bluff Chalk, Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and the two on the second row were collected from the basal sand of the Pine Barren Mbr., Clayton Fm., Early Paleocene. The Basal Sand lies directly on marls of the Prairie Bluff in this section and contains many reworked Cretaceous fossils. The crabs pictured are 2 to 3 times larger than the C. grayi that I've collected a few meters higher in the section. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
collector Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 My humble favorites for 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 It’s a tough call…but I think for me the icing on the cake for 2014 finds would have been when my daughter found the last few Belemnite guards for our display. It was a yearlong team effort. Regards, Darren. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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