2015 Invertebrate / Plant Find Of The Year!

[JohnJ]

It is time to decide what find will hold the honor as our Members' choice among the other winners this past year! We have learned things from all these discoveries; but let's add a little 'spice' to this 'mix'. 'Sound off' on what you like, or think is significant, about your favorites. Who knows...your remarks might save someone from 'going crazy' trying to decide. (PLEASE refrain from commenting on your Own entry. )

Review these winners and cast your vote for the 2015 Invertebrate / Plant Find Of The Year! You can vote in the other contest HERE. The Polls will end on January 12th.

1. January 2015 IPFOTM - Plumaster ophiuroides starfish from the Lower Jurassic Staithes Sandstone Formation of the Yorkshire Coast, U.K.

2. February 2015 IPFOTM - Tumidocarcinus giganteus crab from the Miocene Mount Brown Formation of New Zealand

3. March 2015 IPFOTM - Eocomatula interbrachiatus (Blake, 1876) free-swimming crinoid from the Lower Jurassic Staithes Sandstone Formation on the north Yorkshire coast, U.K.

4. April 2015 IPFOTM - Cuspiteuthis (formerly Youngibelus) tubularis belemnite from the Lower Jurassic Whitby Mudstone Formation, Mulgrave Shale Member on the North Yorkshire coast, U.K.

5. May 2015 IPFOTM - Rhaphidiophorus hystrix polychaete worm from Pennsylvanian period Francis Creek Shale of Illinois, U.S.A.

6. June 2015 IPFOTM - Neseuretus tristani trilobite from the Ordovician (Landeilian) of Bretagne, France

7. July 2015 IPFOTM - Adelophthalmus sp. eurypterid from the Pennsylvanian period Shelburn Formation of Indiana, U.S.A.

8. August 2015 IPFOTM - Xipheroceras and Promicroceras ammonites from the Jurassic of Lyme Regis, U.K.

9. September 2015 IPFOTM - Huntoniatonia huntonensis trilobite from the Devonian Bois d'Arc Formation of Oklahoma, U.S.A.

10. October 2015 IPFOTM - Promicroceras ammonites from the Lower Jurassic deposits of Lyme Regis, U.K.

11. November 2015 IPFOTM - Cupulocrinus sp. crinoid crown from the Middle Ordovician deposits of Ontario, Canada

12. December 2015 IPFOTM - Cyphaspis cf. ceratophthalmus trilobite from the Devonian El Otfal formation near Jebel Ofaten, Ma'der basin, Morocco

[Terry Dactyll]

Some fantastic finds there guys but that is one seriously rare starfish....It gets my vote...

[JohnJ]

Some fantastic finds there guys but that is one seriously rare starfish....It gets my vote...

That one is a beauty, Steve.

I voted for the invertebrate....

whut?

It's someone else's turn.

[JohnJ]

The hours are winding down...get your vote in.