March 2016 Finds Of The Month

[JohnJ]

The weather is warming in the northern hemisphere. As the number of fossil hunts increase, so should the excellent finds by our members. Stay safe on your hunts.

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 March 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. (Only two entries per contest category.)

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!

[PaleoWilliam]

Found on Thursday the 10th of March 2016. Cymatoceras Sp. Grayson Fm. Denton Co TX. This is a Nautiloid.

[belemniten]

I decide to show you my best find this month, after long time dont participate here.

Its a dis-articulated fish skull from the quarry Kromer in Holzmaden/Germany. Here i ask for id (and you can see more finds of the same day ):
http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/63329-great-tour-and-many-questions/

Age is the lower jurassic.The fish is about 4-5 cm long.

Now the pictures :

Detailed: (You can see the two mandibles on the right)

Edited March 15, 2016 by belemniten

[PaleoWilliam]

Found on the 6th of March 2016. Finished prep work today. Cretaceous Period. Found in East Texas. It is a Gyrodes Major. I'm pretty sure it's a gastropod. Here are Before and After photos. By the way this is my first actual prep.

[Vieira]

Hello

Is the first time i am participating here, and i hope the first of many.

For now it has been a weak month of discoveries, but i want share some of my finds.

One perfect Hemipristis Serra, from a miocene formation, found in Portugal on 5 march. I know that is not a rare discovery, and sorry about that, but for me a perfect fossil, is always rare.

Best Regards

[JarrodB]

Elasmosaur Mid-Dorsal Vertebrae (Identified by Mike Everhart).

North Sulphur River Texas

Upper Cretaceous Ozan Formation

Found on 3-16-16

Pretty rare for NSR.

[caldigger]

Sweet vert Jerrod!

[JarrodB]

Thanks buddy.

[CBOB]

I like the included "in situ" pic of the vert

[JarrodB]

I like the included "in situ" pic of the vert

Thanks

[Darktooth]

I will add my cream colored meg found 3/18/16 Calvert cliffs Maryland.

[Vieira]

A Miocene Echinoid from Portugal

Found in 3/19/16

Brissopsis?

Best Regards

Edited March 21, 2016 by Vieira

[TNGray]

This is a 6.5 cm example of Ogygiocarella debuchi, the first species of trilobite to be described, in 1698.

It is from the the Ordovician Llanvirn series rocks of the Shelve Ordovician Inlier, West Shropshire, England.

I found it by splitting small slabs on March 10, 2016 and the brilliant preparation was completed on March 20, 2016.

Both positive and negative plates are preserved.

Photo taken on site upon discovery.

Completed preparation.

Typical locality, thousands of tiny little slabs to split.

Edited March 21, 2016 by JohnJ
contest photos uploaded to TFF

[Darktooth]

That's a nice trilo! I like the color of the matrix.

[Paul1719]

That is a beautiful trilobite! So was it found in Shropshire?

Edited March 22, 2016 by Paul1719

[digit]

Sweet bug and beautiful prep. Looks like some place that deserves to be on my bucket list.

Cheers.

-Ken

[RJB]

Im not a tooth guy, but I love that cream colored meg tooth darktooth!

RB

[Mike Pocock]

Very nice Trilobite, its on my bucket list of fossils to find, where in Shropshire did you find I?

Regards

Mike

[elcoincoin]

that trilo with most likely got my vote. have seen uk trilos from museum collection but one with the find context, that s a first for me. The prep is stunning

[JohnBrewer]

Stunning trilobite!

[TNGray]

While I am at it, I will offer up my vertebrate find.

A lone Ichthyosaur vertebral centrum, encased in a typical Yorkshire ironstone nodule.

Found on March 17, 2016, loose on the beach in the rubble at Saltwick Bay, North Yorkshire UK.

Salt wick Bay is Jurassic Lias formation, within walking distance of Whitby.

It is, as yet, unprepared.

The face of the centrum.

the encasing, ironstone nodule.

Saltwick Bay locality, found in the rubble piles along the east end of the cliffs.

[belemniten]

Great month ! Awesome fossils

Now here is my invertebrate fossil of the month. I was found it at the same as the fish in the quarry Kromer in Holzmaden. Its a very big and well preserved Acreolites (Belemnit) from the lower Jurassic.

Here are the pcitures:

Also with a little ammonite:

Edited March 25, 2016 by belemniten

[alsatites]

Mega - Coroniceras

An exceptional find in a 3 square meters block in May 2015 from a construction site in Stuttgart, Germany .
There was much work to split the block. Unfortunately only the outer turns separated. The inner calcite-windings splitted horizontally.


Obviously an unprofitable job to prepare it. On the other hand I was sure, that I would never find such a piece again.

Only these Calzite- chambers were visible in the rock.



After the parts were glued together, I quickly realized that every hour would be worth working.











Diameter of the wooden ball is 50 cm

Coroniceras (Metophioceras) longidomus, Sinemurium (Lias Alpha 3)
Diameter 80 cm, weight about 100 kg. Preparation finished in March 2016.

Peter

[Raggedy Man]

Mega - Coroniceras

An exceptional find in a 3 square meters block in May 2015 from a construction site in Stuttgart, Germany .

There was much work to split the block. Unfortunately only the outer turns separated. The inner calcite-windings splitted horizontally.

SAM_4979.JPG

Obviously an unprofitable job to prepare it. On the other hand I was sure, that I would never find such a piece again.

Only these Calzite- chambers were visible in the rock.

RIMG0822.JPG

After the parts were glued together, I quickly realized that every hour would be worth working.

RIMG0880.JPG

RIMG0892.JPG

RIMG0895.JPG

RIMG0903.JPGDiameter of the wooden ball is 50 cm

Coroniceras (Metophioceras) longidomus, Sinemurium (Lias Alpha 3)

Diameter 80 cm, weight about 100 kg. Preparation finished in March 2016.

Peter

Amazing find and prep! I will officially announce that I'm utterly jealous of it ☺.

Did most of the take place in March? I couldn't imagine the time it took.

Best regards,

Paul

[Darktooth]

That ammo is blowing me away! That is just awsome!