JohnJ Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Within the practical possibilities of where you hunt, or where you plan to hunt — what is your dream find? Oh, and if you do find it this month...well read below and you'll know what to do. Best of success afield. 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 June 30th. 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...
Fossil Claw Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 6.5 inch Cephalopod on a 10 inch plate found in a creek bed In West Chester ohio.6/7/2016 Maysvillian stage the Cincinnatian. The fossils from this creek are about 445 million years old. Late Ordovician Period. The second picture at an angle show the 3d nature of the fossil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 While I was digging at the Ernst quarries east pit, on 6/5/2015, I found this piece. I asked Boesse for a confirmation that it is another Platylithax robusta ear bone, and he said it looked like it. This Platylithax robusta ear bone is from The Round Mountain Silt, Kern county California, and is mid-miocene (15.5 million years.). Upone identifying the first one for Me ( a month too late for this contest ) he said... "This is a really close match for Platylithax robusta, a taxon which Kellogg (1931) named based off of an isolated periotic from Sharktooth Hill. According to Barnes and Mitchell (1984), this is one of the rarest species of odontocetes in the Sharktooth Hill bonebed - so, it might be worth donating, if you're interested! To be more specific: at the time of writing, Barnes and Mitchell stated that the only known specimen of Platylithax was the type specimen reported by Kellogg. The cetacean periotic doesn't really change much during postnatal ontogeny (after birth), a unique condition amongst mammals. Cheers, Bobby" So here is My first entry into this little contest... In matrix with a bone fragment is a- Platylithax robusta periotic (porpoise ear bone).. Thank You for Your consideration. Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Last month I was fortunate to attend a research conference in Taos, New Mexico. New Mexico is, of course, known as the "Land of (Fossil) Enchantment". I'll eventually post a trip report. In the meantime, I found this fine Petalodus cf ohioensis tooth in the Flechado Formation, Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian), just south/east of Talpa, and about a mile before reaching the sign for Coronado National Forest on NM Hwy 518. As found (May 13, 2015): After prep was completed (June 2, 2015): Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Gorgeous! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Still in New Mexico, a few days later (May 17) I met up with forum member pfooley (Mike), who very generously guided me to a Carlile Shale (Late Cretaceous, Turonian) site in the Rio Puerco area. Mike had to leave shortly, but I was left to wander and search to my heart's content. At first I found little, as there is much evidence that the site is heavily hunted. Eventually, though, I spotted a good sized piece of a whorl that had rolled down the hillside. This one looked like it had fractured naturally, not from a poorly place hammer blow, so I searched uphill and found the rest of the concretion barely showing. I dug it out, put it together with the first piece I found, and got this: Notice the large horn-like spine still attached. Further prep (completed June 3) revealed this: It's a decent-sized specimen of the Turonian guide ammonite Prionocyclus hyatti, the robust form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Two more photos: The specimen is 7 1/2 inches across, and most of the living chamber is long gone so the animal in life would have been substantially larger. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 There are some envious finds already being posted here--I can see this is going to be another tough month to decide upon a favorite (and we still have half the month for more to join this mix). Congrats on all the finds so far and eagerly waiting to see what else turns up this month. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njcreekhunter Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Plesiosaur vertebra. Found 6/14/15 in Monmouth County New Jersey. cretaceous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Found by Mikey Mig on 4/23/2015 - prepped 6/12/2015 by Brian Dasno. Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sseth Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 I thought I should enter my fossil Green River Crocodile. Found June 1st. Not a bad way to start off the month. It is my first Green River Crock, and the first ever crock from the Dempsy quarry area in Wyoming. It has a 2/3 complete, articulated skeleton and at minimum, complete lowers (I have also drawn in what we assume is the upper skull. The first picture shows the articulated skeleton and where the skull and lowers were before removing the lowers. The second picture shows a cross-section of one lower jaw. The skull is just over 3 feet long. This crock was found this weekend in the Fossil Lake section of the Green River Formation and dates back to the Eocene. The species has not been determined yet. _____________________________________ Seth www.fossilshack.com www.americanfossil.com www.fishdig.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triceratops Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Amazing find Seth! -Lyall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Found by Mikey Mig on 4/23/2015 - prepped 6/12/2015 by Brian Dasno. Mikey, That Greenops is exquisite. Really nice find. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Thanks bro. I'm gonna make a poster of this pic. Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 While reading this entire thread I got an idea to find something like this can you guide how to find these items? Do some research on where the things can be found, join a rock club, ask active and older collectors, read books on the geology of Your area. Do a lot of looking and digging. And then get very lucky. And learn how to recognize what is "special". Good luck with Your searching. Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 While reading this entire thread I got an idea to find something like this can you guide how to find these items? One tool I never even considered until it was suggested here is obtaining an unpublished masters theses. It sounds crazy I know, but this tip allowed me to find one of the last exposed outcrops in milwaukee county here in Wisconsin. However, obtaining permission from the land owner is a completely different quest. Good luck in your endeavors! Best regards, Paul ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 Do some research on where the things can be found, join a rock club, ask active and older collectors, read books on the geology of Your area. Do a lot of looking and digging. And then get very lucky. And learn how to recognize what is "special". Good luck with Your searching. Tony One tool I never even considered until it was suggested here is obtaining an unpublished masters theses. It sounds crazy I know, but this tip allowed me to find one of the last exposed outcrops in milwaukee county here in Wisconsin. However, obtaining permission from the land owner is a completely different quest. Good luck in your endeavors! Best regards, Paul Good advice, but lost on someone that joined with a different objective than fossils...it happens sometimes. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNGray Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Ketternapsis trilobite from my trip to the Thiesen Quarry in Oklahoma. Found on 5/28 and and prepped by me, completed on 6/20/15. Unfortunately, I broke one of the genal spines... Haragan Formation, Devonian, Near Clarita, Oklahoma Before.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Ketternapsis trilobite from my trip to the Thiesen Quarry in Oklahoma. Found and prepped by me. Unfortunately, I broke one of the genal spines... Please edit your post to include all the required info. Thanks and good luck in the contest. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raistlin Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Well I am up against stiff competition, but I will give this a whirl anyway. Found on 6/10/15 Phanocrinus formosus Golconda formation Mississippian aged No prep needed it was done by nature and found as it is seen aside from brushing a small amount of dirt off. RobertSoutheast, MO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manticocerasman Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Here is my entry for this month: Ctenacanthus sp. (early carboniferous shark ) Tournaisian (early Mississippian) Formation of Soignies Soignies ( Belgium ) Found on 21 of june 2015 Size: 5mm growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elcoincoin Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Hi there, long time since i posted anything, actually long time since i didnt find anything of interest. Since its trilobite fever i'll enter the one i found last week, despite it stand no chance vs the other trilos. Neseuretus Tristani Ordovician Landeilian (-460 MA) La Dominelais - Bretagne - France Found on 19 of june 2015 Size: about 19 cm 2 global views : Head close up Tail close up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiggieCie Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Elcoincoin, WOW thats different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA Fossil Finder Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Wow, there are some amazing fossils this month! Here's my entry: Fish tooth (most likely Hyneria), 2 cm. long Found 6/20/2015 Duncannon Member of the Catskill formation Devonian in age, approximately 361 mil. years old No prep, I found it just sitting on the ground! Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam.morris08 Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Here is a section of ichythasaur rostrum I found and prepped this month with the majority of the prep done today. I would like to finish it with acid prep.It was found on charmouth beach, Dorset, uk200 million years oldAs foundAnd prepped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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