JohnJ Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 The first half of the year is behind us, but great finds can happen any time. While we wait for the fossils this month, let us know your favorite time of year to hunt. 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 July 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. (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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Wow. What a start to the month. Fantastic tooth Darren and Elliot. 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...
Welsh Wizard Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Darren That's a cool find. I'm always amazed by the variety of sharks teeth that you get. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Darren That's a cool find. I'm always amazed by the variety of sharks teeth that you get. Nick Hi Nik,I always imagine these Hybodont sharks scavenging over large marine reptile skeletons. I've also some fragments from a dorsal fin spine from A.ornatissimus. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Found yesterday 7/09/2016 Pecopteris (Asterotheca) miltoni Artis Westphalian Near Bruay en Artois Northern France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Found yesterday 7/09/2016 Pecopteris (Asterotheca) miltoni Artis Westphalian Near Bruay en Artois Northern France IMG_0105.JPGIMG_0109.JPGIMG_0110.JPG Boom!! and the invert starts of with a bang this month also. Beautiful plant nala. 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 July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Thanks sixgill pete! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Found July 8 2016. Plesiosaur tooth, 1.90 inches/48.2 mm Upper Cretaceous Tombigbee Sand Member, Eutah Formation (also could be base of Mooreville Chalk). Montgomery County, Alabama Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Found July 8 2016. Plesiosaur tooth, 1.90 inches/48.2 mm Upper Cretaceous Tombigbee Sand Member, Eutah Formation (also could be base of Mooreville Chalk). Montgomery County, Alabama IMG_2282 reduced.jpg ples tooth root.jpg ples tooth curve.jpg ples tooth straight.jpg Don Don, that is a gorgeous Pleisiosaur tooth. You have just made the vert contest this month a very tough choice. 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...
FossilDudeCO Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Wow, great pleisiosaur tooth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Don, that is a gorgeous Pleisiosaur tooth. You have just made the vert contest this month a very tough choice. Wow, great pleisiosaur tooth! Thanks guys! I couldn't believe what I was seeing at first, I thought the 105 degree temperature (adjusted for humidity) was frying my brain and making me hallucinate. This is my first plesiosaur find, well beyond anything I could reasonably have hoped for. Both elasmosaurs and pliosaurs are known from the Mooreville chalk beds in western Alabama, and as far as I can determine the teeth are not diagnostic between the two groups, so I think "plesiosaur" is the best I'll be able to do for an ID. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Found July 8 2016. Plesiosaur tooth, 1.90 inches/48.2 mm Upper Cretaceous Tombigbee Sand Member, Eutah Formation (also could be base of Mooreville Chalk). Montgomery County, Alabama IMG_2282 reduced.jpg ples tooth root.jpg ples tooth curve.jpg ples tooth straight.jpg Don Don, that is a superb find. "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Thanks Mike! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saysac Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 I found this specimen 7/6, and love the detail. Lacoea sp. cone Wayne County, Ohio, Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian. It has a full Lacoea sp. cone with a disc from the cone and appears to have another cone part . LINK Sherry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Thanks guys! I couldn't believe what I was seeing at first, I thought the 105 degree temperature (adjusted for humidity) was frying my brain and making me hallucinate. This is my first plesiosaur find, well beyond anything I could reasonably have hoped for. Both elasmosaurs and pliosaurs are known from the Mooreville chalk beds in western Alabama, and as far as I can determine the teeth are not diagnostic between the two groups, so I think "plesiosaur" is the best I'll be able to do for an ID. Don Oh man! You beat me to it. I was going to stop by that site once the weather cooled off. "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Wow, Cool Cone!!! RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saysac Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Thank you RB! Sherry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDudeCO Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 OK, I am going to throw my undetermined Green River plant into the mix! Formation: Green River Age: Eocene (~48MYO) Location: Kemmerer, WY Date of Find: July 3rd, 2016 Name: Undescribed Freshwater Plant / Algae? Some of you may have seen the thread in Fossil ID. After some debate among forum members, photos were sent to the Fossil Butte National Monument where it was determined to be a known, but undescribed freshwater plant or algae from the Green River Formation. This fossil shows an extremely rare 3-Dimensional preservation. It is most likely that this plant was filled in with calcite as it was fossilizing allowing for the 3-D structures to be preserved. Thanks for the considerations and good luck to all this month! The first photo is untouched. The second photo was darkened a bit by forum member PlantGuy (Chris) to show details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Going to be another hard choice this month!!!! Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleoworld-101 Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Vertebrate entry: Cretaceous marine vertebrate multi-slab: 20 cm section of marine reptile rib (either Ichthyosaur or Plesiosaur, yet to be determined which!), three Ichthyosaur teeth (Platypterygius australis), smaller Ichthyosaur rib fragments (Platypterygius australis), Protostegid sea turtle plastron and an additional Squalicorax shark tooth for good measure Found on July 10, 2016. I only cleaned surface dirt off it, otherwise it was collected as-is. Toolebuc Formation (100 million years old), from Richmond, QLD Australia. "In Africa, one can't help becoming caught up in the spine-chilling excitement of the hunt. Perhaps, it has something to do with a memory of a time gone by, when we were the prey, and our nights were filled with darkness..." -Eternal Enemies: Lions And Hyenas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeargleSchmeargl Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Can't wait to make a few last minute invert finds in Nashville to add to the competition Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JarrodB Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Found July 8 2016. Plesiosaur tooth, 1.90 inches/48.2 mm Upper Cretaceous Tombigbee Sand Member, Eutah Formation (also could be base of Mooreville Chalk). Montgomery County, Alabama IMG_2282 reduced.jpg ples tooth root.jpg ples tooth curve.jpg ples tooth straight.jpg Don Killer tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Vertebrate entry: Cretaceous marine vertebrate multi-slab: 20 cm section of marine reptile rib (either Ichthyosaur or Plesiosaur, yet to be determined which!), three Ichthyosaur teeth (Platypterygius australis), smaller Ichthyosaur rib fragments (Platypterygius australis), Protostegid sea turtle plastron and an additional Squalicorax shark tooth for good measure Found on July 10, 2016. I only cleaned surface dirt off it, otherwise it was collected as-is. Toolebuc Formation (100 million years old), from Richmond, QLD Australia. Pic 1.JPG Pic 3.JPG Pic 4.JPG Pic 5.JPG Pic 7.JPG So, I finally see it Awesome plate, Nathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Vertebrate Entry: Unidentified Chimaeroid spine. I can get the exact species name if possible. Found on the 6th of July Toolebuc formation (late Albian) 100 - 110 myo Site one, Richmond, QLD Australia Prepped by Anna, a volunteer at Kronosaurus Korner. Donated to Kronosaurus Korner on the 6th of July Did I leave any info out? Izak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleoworld-101 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 So, I finally see it Awesome plate, Nathan Yes, sorry i wanted to show you in person but things didn't work out that way! Fabulous spine!!! To everyone else here- it looks even better in person! Together we're putting the spotlight on Richmond material. Aussie aussie aussie!! Oi! Oi! Oi! "In Africa, one can't help becoming caught up in the spine-chilling excitement of the hunt. Perhaps, it has something to do with a memory of a time gone by, when we were the prey, and our nights were filled with darkness..." -Eternal Enemies: Lions And Hyenas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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