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March 2015 Finds Of The Month


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February had a 'sleepy' start in FOTM entries, but wound up with some startling finds. How will March fare? What are hunting conditions like in your part of the world?

Combine your knowledge and skill in the field to increase your 'luck'. Then, enter your best find! :)

Carefully read the rules below, make sure you include all the required information, and submit your fossil!

Please pay special attention to 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 March 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 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

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What are hunting conditions like in your part of the world?

Well...the snow might be gone by the end of the month!

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Does this count if I don't know the exact species? Bony Fish Skull Late Cretaceous - Ozan Formation 75-80 mya Northeast Texas, USA

Edit in the date of your find and you're good to go. :fistbump:

The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true.  -  JJ

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3-7-15

Bony Fish Skull

Ozan Formation - Late Cretaceous

75-80 mya

Northeast TX, USA

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North Central Texas

Eagle Ford Group / Ozan Formation

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Thank you! I was surprised how well preserved it is.

North Central Texas

Eagle Ford Group / Ozan Formation

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From my last hunt in the "Vaches Noires"Normandy,a plate with a huge Myophorella clavellata associated with a partial Cardioceras ammonite ,Jurassic(Oxfordian),found 3 March ,finish to prep 11 March 2015

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Common Name: Blackbergs dwarf horse Species: Archaeohippus blackbergi Period: Late early Miocene Epoch Formation: Alfred A. Rink Park Location: Gainesville FL Date found: March 10th 2015

possible lower premolar
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Entry for IPFOTM.

Species: Angiospermae sp. nov. Locality: Boot Hill, Republic, WA, USA Age: Eocene, Ypresian Formation: Klondike Mountain Formation Date of Discovery: May 17, 2014 Date of Prep Finish: March 15, 2015

This specimen was found last May, but I did a bit of preparatory work on it this month (15th), and I uncovered another petal and the tip of one that was already visible. It was identified as being a new species of angiosperm by the staff at the Stonerose Interpretive Center, and I was allowed to keep one half of it.

Before Prep:

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After Prep:

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With Structures Highlighted:

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I'd like to enter this large and complete Cyclopteris sp. leaf, measuring about 11.5 cm (4.5 inch). The fossil comes from the Westphalian D (Upper Carboniferous) of the Piesberg near Osnabrück, Germany (collected on the 15th of March, repair/preparation done on the 22nd of March).

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Searching for green in the dark grey.

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I would like to enter this Cetacean tooth which has been identified as a delphinid with the possibilities being false killer whale (Pseudorca), killer whale (Orcinus), or pilot whale (Globicephala). It was found in a creek in E. North Carolina. I am unsure of the exact age/formation but the creek it was found in produces fossils from Cretaceous-Pleistocene. I found it on March 21st. Thanks.

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I'd like to enter this scarce free-swimming Jurassic crinoid, found in April 2013 and prepped this month, finished on 6th March.

It's a well known crinoid from this formation but this is the most complete one I've seen. They have a very short stem - 5mm or less, consisting of six or seven columnals all with cirri.

It looked reasonable as found but I've spent about ten hours removing matrix from the arms, cirri and pinnules.

Eocomatula interbrachiatus (Blake, 1876). Lower Jurassic, Staithes Sandstone Formation, north Yorkshire coast, UK.

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As found:

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Tarquin

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