JohnJ Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 It was a good turnout for last month's contests, and we had some un-flippin-believable finds! Let's see more this month. 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 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. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guguita2104 Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 I found this fossil in Lourinhã,Portugal Jurassic Period Bivalve (Isognomon) 12th August 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Pocock Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Nice find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guguita2104 Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepTimeIsotopes Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 (edited) That's pretty sweet! Edited August 15, 2015 by Utahfossilhunter Each dot is 50,000,000 years: Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic........... Paleo......Meso....Ceno.. Ꞓ.OSD.C.P.Tr.J.K..Pg.NgQ< You are here Doesn't time just fly by? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Here is my submission for August's vertebrate Find of the Month; Found on August 7, 2015, a Frog terminal phalanx discovered in matrix (collected by Sacha) from a spoil island in the Indian River near Merritt Island Florida.The layer is considered the Melbourne Bone Bed and is Pleistocene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA Fossil Finder Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Here is my submission for August's vertebrate Find of the Month; Found on August 7, 2015, a Frog terminal phalanx discovered in matrix (collected by Sacha) from a spoil island in the Indian River near Merritt Island Florida.The layer is considered the Melbourne Bone Bed and is Pleistocene. MI frog phalange.jpg A frog toe! That isn't something you see every day! Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Andy- Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 A frog toe! That isn't something you see every day! This. Frogs aren't often fossilized. Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 I have not entered anything into the VFOTM in a while so here we go. Hadrosaur tooth, my first Dino tooth, and an incredibly rare find for North Carolina. Hadrosauridae indet. Found 11 Aug 2015 Eastern N.C. Cretaceous Black Creek Group, ?Tarheel Formation Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Very cool tooth! and frog toe, and bivalve Izak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Found 22 Aug 2015 near Bruay en Artois Northern France Alethopteris Decurens and Neuropteris Westphalian 25 cm plate close up in situ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 WOW!! That is a very nice plate!! Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Thanks sixgill pete! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Very nice specimens all around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Pocock Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Very nice plate looks fantastic. Regards Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Thanks Mike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesuslover340 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 (edited) Tough competition! Bison sp. tooth (partial; likely B. antiquus) Date found: August 22nd, 2015 Geological age: Pleistocene Where found: Oklahoma Edited August 28, 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...
Khyssa Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 This is small but I was quite happy when I found out what it was! Nurse Shark tooth - Ginglymostoma Lehneri (I believe) Found August 1, 2015 Geological age: Miocene (Hawthorn Group?) Found in matrix from Gainesville, Florida Measures 5 mm at the root Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khyssa Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Nala, that is a beautiful plate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Khyssa, that is a beautiful tooth. So uncommon to find a nurse shark in that good of shape. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khyssa Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Khyssa, that is a beautiful tooth. So uncommon to find a nurse shark in that good of shape. Thank you! This is the best nurse shark tooth I've found to date. So far I've found 4 of these teeth all from the same gravel bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Thanks Khyssa, your tooth is very beautifull too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirk Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 (edited) Seal humerus Found on August the first, in a Miocene deposit, in Virginia. Thanks for looking. Kirk Edited August 29, 2015 by kirk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 (edited) I'd like to submit this complete Treptoceras crebiseptum orthocone that I found on Thursday, August 27. Found in shale in the Humber River area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Late Ordovician, Georgian Bay formation. It's squashed due to the preservation, is 31 cm long, and the first complete orthocone I found in this locality (body chamber included). In situ All pieces glued back together Edited August 29, 2015 by JUAN EMMANUEL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 It's still summer right? There should be more entries then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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