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Winner of the September 2016 Vertebrate Find Of The Month!

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The Winner of the September 2016 Vertebrate Find Of The Month is the Allodesmus sp. pinniped canine tooth from the Late Miocene Santa Margarita Formation of California, USA!  In one of the closest polls we have had in a long time, the pinniped tooth just nipped victory from a worthy feather.  :D  Congratulations to Doren (caldigger) on his discovery and first win in the contest!  :yay-smiley-1::1-SlapHands_zpsbb015b76::yay-smiley-1:

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Thank you to all other members that participated and voted.  :)

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sixgill pete Regular Member

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Congratulations Doren. Greta find. It is a beautiful little tooth.

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Wow, thank you everyone that voted for my little toofy.  I was looking at another topic and just noticed the VFOTM badge by my avatar.  This is quite an honor to stand with all the other past winners. In my book, they were all winners!  

Caldigger

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Coco Regular Member

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Congrats Doren. This little tooth is marvelous, it is very photogenic !

 

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Congrats! That's a very nice one ! Good to see it as reference.

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FossilDudeCO Regular Member

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Hey Doren!

Congrats on your win, it was well deserved!

That is a fantastic find and prep!

Kudos my friend!

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jcbshark Regular Member

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Congrats Doren, don't know how I missed this: )

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

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Just to give you some perspective of the disasters I was facing that day I found this tooth, I actually found it's twin brother soon after and placed it in a plastic container just off from where I was digging.  The sun that day was brutal and with slightly moist matrix the fossils were coming out of made for a deadly combination.  Exploding fossils!

First is a shot of the winning tooth, I had put beside my backpack and was out of the direct sun which saved it.  The other one wasn't so lucky, all I was left with is a little sliver of it's former self.

 

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