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July 2015 Finds Of The Month


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Many of our members have 'fossil vacations' planned this month. Let's see your BEST!

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 July 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. You must include the State, Province, or region where the Fossil was found.

9. 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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How many entries can one person submit?

Up to you, but chose your best per category, lest you compete against yourself. ;)

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How many entries can one person submit?

You can have multiple entries, but there are some considerations. We ask that you submit your best finds. However, it doesn't make sense to submit multiples of the same thing. ;) Having an entry in each of the contests is fine, too. All in all, it's probably best to share one, or two finds and see what happens. :)

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

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I found this specimen in the peace river in south Florida,

Pleistocene

July 1st 2015

Small Rodent mandible.

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Location found: Arcadia, Florida Peace River

Time period: Pleistocene

Date found: July 1st, 2015

Common name: Bison

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And Crestview, Florida makes its mark early with some enviable finds.

Good luck.

-Ken

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Found in the country in a river under a bridge in Texas on July 7th 2015.

It a molar of a Mastodon or Mammut Americanum

lived in the late Miocene- late Pleistocene, 5.3–0.011 Ma

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Found in Sepins,Coimbra,Portugal.

Jurassic to Cretaceous Period.

Discovered on 2nd July 2015

Common name:Ammonite

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Hexanchus griseus posterior/ commissural tooth position

Location: Shark Tooth Hill

Date: 10th

Age: Neogene

This is the only posterior/ commissural Hexanchus tooth I've seen from this location up to now. Has anyone a similar tooth in his/ her collection?

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Nullus finis longius si quod facis delectaris

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I would like to submit this eurypterid Adelophthalmus sp. for Invertebrate/Plant Fossil of the Month. The concretion split open on July 11th of 2015.

Shelburn Formation

Pennsylvanian in age

Indiana, U.S.A.

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Location found: Monmouth County New Jersey

Time period: Cretaceous

Date found: July 12th, 2015

Squantina Hassei (angelshark) vert. surrounded by prismatic cartilage.

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I have not entered FOTM before but as this is my first Belemnite found in its matrix I have decided to give it a go.

Found: June 2015 and prepped it on Sunday July 5th 2015

Fossil: Belemnite (Species unknown)

Location: Whitby North Yorkshire UK

Age: Jurassic 170 – 120 Million years old

This specimen has most of the Phragmocone attached, however the Guard was quite worn so I decided to polish it to show the internal structure and i think that this was the right thing to do as it shows the internal structure quite well.

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Hexanchus griseus posterior/ commissural tooth position

Location: Shark Tooth Hill

Date: 10th

Age: Neogene

This is the only posterior/ commissural Hexanchus tooth I've seen from this location up to now. Has anyone a similar tooth in his/ her collection?

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I believe I have a posterior Notorhynchus from the Pungo River Formation at Lee Creek. I'll try to photograph it this weekend.

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Nice! I've seen few commissural Hexanchidae from Antwerp (Belgium), but none from other locations.

Nullus finis longius si quod facis delectaris

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I'd like to enter a vertebrate fossil found coal splitting on July 2nd, 2015. My entry is a near complete Pennsylvanian Amphibian called Ptyonius marshii. The fossil is a Dorsal side negative and comes from the Cannel Coal below the Upper Freeport #7 coal of the Alleghany group in Jefferson County Ohio. The age is Mid-Pennsylvanian about 310 MYO. I included a collage for detail that is hard to see in the first picture. A scale and line drawing is provided for size and form.

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Here is an entry for invertebrate of the month.

I found this in the summer of 2004 in the fossil hill area of the Humboldt mountains Nevada. I have wanted to get it prepped sense I first saw it but did not know anybody that could do it until I joined this forum. I sent it to Ludwigia and He sent Me the photo of the finished product today...

Eleven Ammonites of four (five?) species and two Brachipods species in a four inch plate of marble.

Fossil hill, Humboldt mountains, Nevada.

Mid Triassic.

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Thank You for Your consideration,

PS Thanks Roger for the wonderful preparation on this piece!

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Thought I would submit this guy. On the 4th I was digging in the quarry and managed to pull out a great little stingray. It is a Heliobatus Radians from the Green River Formation. Eocene (50 MYA+/-)

Found him in a couple of pieces and spent the last two weeks prepping, restoring and getting it ready for display.

Here are the before and afters. (Sorry my final picture seems a bit blurry but I cant seem to get it to post any better. I may just have to take another.)

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Nice Job Seth!

Who says you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear?

A miraculous transformation!

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I believe I have a posterior Notorhynchus from the Pungo River Formation at Lee Creek. I'll try to photograph it this weekend.

I'd love to see it too. Of the several hundred notorynchus teeth I have from Calvert Cliffs and Lee Creek, I have never found one of these types of posterior's before.

Daryl.

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I found this nice-sized Isotelus maximus fragment in the Humber River area in the city of Toronto, Ont. Canada. This summer's been awfully wet :blink: and it surfaced from under the rubble of shale and limestone by the wash of rain that showered during the week I found it. There is also a hypostome fragment at the bottom of the specimen, right behind the upper thoraic segments. I've been wanting this kind of specimen from this locality and this is my second big I. maximus partial I've found in the city. :P

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The hypostome

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Isotelus maximus

Late Ordovician, Georgian Bay formation, Humber member

Found on July 10, 2015

Humber River area, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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IPFOTM is going to be a match between the titans! Good luck to all that enter the ring!!

...I'm back.

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