minnbuckeye Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 (edited) Here is the slab of sandstone showing the hash plate on the surface and a few of the trilobites exposed deeper in the sandstone. Edited August 24, 2016 by minnbuckeye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Minnbuckeye, it's nice to see a Wisconsin trilobite for IPFOTM! ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belemniten Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 (edited) I want to participate with this part of a jaw. Its a fish jaw with four teeth, probably Dapedium. I found it on August 21, 2016 in the quarry Kromer in Holzmaden (Germany), Early Toarcian (Lower Jurassic). The whole stone is 13.6 cm long, the jaw is 1.2 cm long and the biggest tooth is 0.6 cm long. So its a very small find, but for me a very spectacular find Detailed pictures: Edited August 23, 2016 by belemniten Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils Regards Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 This is my first attempt at posting an entry for fossil of the month. My find began a month ago when a fellow Fossil Forum member asked for donated partial specimens of trilobites from the Cambrian period. I knew of a half a dozen places that I had not hunted in a few years ( due to the fragile nature of the fossils in a soft sandstone) that would fit his request. These sites are loaded with cephalons and pygidiums but never (I thought) whole trilobites. So the next time I went fishing on the Mississippi River, I quit early to take the time to slip into Wisconsin to collect for this individual. After about an hour of gathering, I had a 5 gallon pail full of sandstone and headed home to fillet the walleye and prep the fossils. The specimens (the trilobites, not the fish) were laid out, allowed to dry before a light coat of preservative was used to coat them to prevent them from crumbling into a pile of sand. Once preserved, I began to break away the better cephalons and pygidiums of the common Cedaria woosteri. To my amazement, when I started working one piece of sandstone that had a hash plate of trilobite parts on its surface, a trilobite that appeared to be complete was peaking out of the deeper matrix. To make a long story shorter, 13 complete to almost complete trilobites were extracted from a single block of sandstone! Thanks to the work of Piranah, My trilobites has been identified. DSC_0411.JPGDSC_0410.JPGDSC_0409.JPG Well as Gomer Pyle would say...Surprise, surprise, surprise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strepsodus Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 (edited) Hi. Here's my Vertebrate entry. It's an Upper Carboniferous shark tooth from Cumbria, UK. Xenacanthus sp Upper Carboniferous Pennine Middle Coal Measures formation- 312 million years old Cumbria, UK 4.5mm from the bottom of the tooth to the tip. Found Friday, 19th of August 2016 Edited August 25, 2016 by Strepsodus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JarrodB Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Some amazing finds this month. Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John S. Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Protosphyraena Fish Skull North Central Texas- U.S. Late Cretaceous- 85-90 mya Atco Formation- Austin Group 8-17-16 North Central Texas Eagle Ford Group / Ozan Formation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeargleSchmeargl Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Man now this month is uber tough. Wow. 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 August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 John swoops in for the kill. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharko69 Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 John swoops in for the kill. lollol! Go John! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manticocerasman Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) This is my Goniatite for the month of August: found the 2nd of august and prepped this week: Association of Manticoceras and Orthoceras, Late Devonian ( Frasnian ) Lompret ( Belgium ) Edited September 1, 2016 by JohnJ (contest photo uploaded to TFF) 1 growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 NICE<NICE<NICE,etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) Found 7/8/16 (or 8/7/16, August 7th!). It's a big male Diprotodon Optatum partial lower jaw. Pleistocene Australia. Front view where the incisor should be: Sides: Top with my thumb beside the teeth for size: Edited September 1, 2016 by JohnJ (contest photos uploaded to TFF) "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 That's an amazing find,Ash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Invertebrate Collignoniceras percarinatum Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Carlile member of the Mancos Shale Discovered: August 30th, 2016 New Mexico, USA "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...
Strepsodus Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Hi. Here's my plant entry. It's a piece of mudstone which contains one large plant, which I think is Mariopteris sp, a smaller plant and many other small plant fragments. It comes from the Pennine Lower Coal Measures formation (Upper Carboniferous.) I found it in Offerton, near Manchester, UK on the 27th of August. Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Getting some good entries this month! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 That was easy the find of the day when we went to Offerton Daniel. Im glad you entered it! John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strepsodus Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 59 minutes ago, JohnBrewer said: That was easy the find of the day when we went to Offerton Daniel. Im glad you entered it! Thanks. At first I thought it was Alethopteris sp but I think it's Mariopteris sp which seems to be rarer. thanks, Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Here is my favorite find from last week's dig. It's a partial frontal plate from the skull of a very small crocodilian. It was found in the Hell Creek Formation float, Slope County, North Dakota, on the 26th. It measures approximately 2" x 1". The paleontologists I worked with in this area aren't sure if it is from a juvenile or if there is yet unidentified species of small crocodilians. I was collecting on public lands for the ND Geological Survey, so this is the only picture I have. What I think is interesting is that quite a bit of the eye orbit edges is intact. 1 Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarleysGh0st Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Just getting this entry in under the wire, but I've been traveling and having trouble logging in with my obsolete laptop using hotel wifi... Here's my entry for vertebrate fossil of the month: an Allosaurus (?) tooth from Como Bluff, Albany County, Wyoming. Morrison Formation, Upper Jurassic. I found this specimen on August 25, 2016, while on a Tate Museum dig. Because I found this specimen while prospecting (walking around looking for additional possible sites near the quarry we'd been working on all week) and because this tooth was not associated with any other fossil material, I was allowed to keep this for my own collection, instead of handing it over to the museum. And true confession time: most of my collecting is done in the Devonian, back home in New York, and nearly all of the collection where I volunteer at PRI is invertebrate material, so I really have invertebrates on my mind. So...I was walking around and I noticed the shape of this specimen sitting on the surface among a bunch of pebbles, dark side up, and I thought to myself, "ooooh, that looks like a freshwater mussel!" Then I picked it up and noticed it was something very different! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Good find—the Tate Museum in Casper, WY, sponsors Como Bluff digs that are something that everyone should save up for and put on their bucket list. They are reasonably priced and a great value for what you get for the week. The Tate staff and their volunteers are very helpful and everyone is so friendly. Some of my best memories are of the Tate week-long digs in the NE Wyoming Lance formation and at Como Bluff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Hey.. I recognize that Allosaurus (?) tooth. Tanks for the plug, Bruce. For those still paying attention, feel free to PM me for more details about Tate Museum digs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pterosaur Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Hi everyone! I am entering a Triceratops Horridus horn I found in Carter County, Montana in the Hell Creek formation! I found it on July 28th with the landowners permission. I spent all of August prepping it, and am still not completely done! I'm so excited about it. It's probably the coolest thing I've ever found. It also has a really interesting divet on one side that looks like it may have been caused by another triceratops? Best, Lauren 2 "I am a part of all that I have met." - Lord Alfred Tennyson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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