August 2015 Vertebrate Find Of The Month

[JohnJ]

An excellent collection of finds this month.

For those of you with creative imaginations, picture a creature made from only these finds... The rest of you should go vote.

The poll ends September 6th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll HERE.

1. Frog terminal phalanx - Pleistocene Melbourne Bone Bed - Florida, U.S.A.

2. Hadrosaurid dinosaur tooth - Cretaceous Black Creek Group - North Carolina, U.S.A.

3. Bison sp. partial tooth - Pleistocene - Oklahoma, U.S.A.

4. Nurse shark tooth - Miocene - Florida, U.S.A.

5. Seal humerus - Miocene - Virginia, U.S.A.

6. Janassa sp. fish tooth - Pennsylvanian - Texas, U.S.A.

7. Edmontosaurus annectens hadrosaur ischium - Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation - Montana, U.S.A.

8. Partial turtle carapace (?Allopleuron hofmanni) - Maastrichtiaan (late Cretaceous) Gronsveld member - Limburg, Netherlands

[Triceratops]

Great selection, a tough choice.

[Renaud]

Indagator, just for information, I think you're right with your identification, it's probably Allopleuron hofmanni. Your discovery corresponds to neural 9 and suprapygals 1 and 2.

It's a great discovery !

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Carapace of Allopleuron hofmanni (Danilov. 2005. Die fossilen Schildkroten Europas)

(p=peripheral; n=neural; c=costal; nu=nuchal; py=pygal; spy=suprapygal)

[Indagator]

Thanks Renaud for confirming my identification. Wasn't completely sure until now

[Rob Russell]

Decisions, decisions! Good luck to all!

[JohnJ]

Anonymous voting. Great fossils. What's not to like?

[Bev]

Great Finds! Good Luck to All!

[abyssunder]

All are nice finds! Congrats for all!