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April 2016 Finds Of The Month

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Come on fossil hunters; this is 'prime time' fossil hunting for those in Spring or Fall! Keep your senses sharp and make one of your best discoveries this month!!! :fistbump:

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 April 30th. 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!

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

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I'll propose one of my Torynomma quadrata crabs that just recently got prepped. Found last December; prep was done this last Tuesday and Wednesday. Cretaceous (105 myo). Found in Queensland, Australia.

This is the first Tory I have seen or know of with preserved eyestalks, so pretty excited about the preservation and level of prep (special thanks to DLB) :)

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"Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."
-Romans 14:19

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Thanks! Very excited about that one!!!

"Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."
-Romans 14:19

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belemniten Regular Member

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Oh no that would be boring :)

Because of that i want to show you my personal invertebrate find of the month ....

Its one of the first tooth i ever found and a great find for me ! You can see a croc tooth named Steneosaurus. The tooth is about 1 cm long and found in Holzmaden (not a big surprise ;) ). Age is the upper Jurassic.

Here are the pictures:

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Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

Regards Sebastian

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Wow no other entry's you may win by default both vert and invert lol!

There's 18 days left.. plenty of time for someone else to pull a rabbit out of their hat!

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...I'm back.

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Oh no that would be boring :)

Because of that i want to show you my personal invertebrate find of the month ....

Its one of the first tooth i ever found and a great find for me ! You can see a croc tooth named Steneosaurus. The tooth is about 1 cm long and found in Holzmaden (not a big surprise ;) ). Age is the upper Jurassic.

Here are the pictures:

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Thats amazing! What a month!

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caldigger Regular Member

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Belemniten, I think that would qualify as a vertebrate. It would be a rather spineless croc otherwise.

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Belemniten, I think that would qualify as a vertebrate. It would be a rather spineless croc otherwise.

Oh yes :blush: Thats embarrassing :blink:

I wanted to wright vertebrate ....

Thanks caldigger !

Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

Regards Sebastian

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JimTh Regular Member

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I'll throw my hat in the ring. I'm really excited about this find.

Petalodus tooth

Found yesterday (4/13/16) in southern Indiana. Mississipian, Chesterian, Indian Springs shale I believe. I'm not real great on formations, but I think that pins it down pretty well.

Here's a link to my thread:

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/64268-had-a-good-trip-yesterday-found-some-uncommon-stuff/

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caldigger Regular Member

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That's a nice one Jim. Do you plan to prep it out or leave as is?

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THAT is an awesome tooth!

Regards,

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TNCollector Regular Member

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This month is gonna be good! That is a beautiful Petalodont Jim, and that hybodont is also super nice Darren!

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DE&i Regular Member

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Thank you TNCollector unfortunately it has the right and left cusplets missing. But I've only ever found two of these in many years of looking...I'm very pleased with myself.

Regards.....D&E&i

The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty.

https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers

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Found April 14th, Hawthorne formation, peace river find(I'm not telling you my secret spot O_o)

Paramylodon canine, giant ground sloth, Pliocene through Pleistocene epochs.

I don't expect to win this month, but it's still early, and the rivers are still dropping!!!!!

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Invertebrate.

A forewing (tegmin) from the cockroach Nannoblattina sp.

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​​Scale bar = 0.5mm

Found on 17/03/2016

From the Upper Weald Clay Formation ( Barremian, Lower Cretaceous ) Smokejacks Brickworks pit, Surrey, UK.

Approximate Age (Ma) 128.0 to 129.0

I've added my report back about my trip to Smokejacks pit at the link below. To which ill continue to update over the coming weeks.. :)

Smokejacks Quarry Field Trip

Regards.....D&E&i

The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty.

https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers

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Giant Great White tooth (approx. 2 3/4")

Found April 17, 2016

Upper Miocene

Tar Sands Deposit

Santa Margarita Formation

Santa Barbara County, CA.

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I would like to submit my Pleistocene Mammoth tooth from Florida. Not perfect but about as big as they come from what I've seen :) I found it on April 16

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Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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Congratulations Jcbshark.

Your find are fantastic :D

thank you so much Filipe : ) Edited by jcbshark

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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