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February 2017 Finds Of The Month


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OK, January was a little light on the vertebrate entries; so some of you fossil hunters need 'put your backbone into it' this month!  :)  :D

 

Remember...carefully read the rules below, make sure you include all the required information, and submit your fossil!  If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. 

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 success to all, and good hunting!

Entries will be taken through February 28th. 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 most of the significant Preparation of your Fossil must have been completed during the Month of the Contest.

4. You must include the Date of your Discovery (when found in the contest month); or the Date of Preparation Completion and Discovery date (if not found in the contest month).

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 start this month of with a Mosasaur tooth in jaw section I found on Feb 6. North Sulphur River Texas. Cretaceous, Ozan Formation. I would guess Tylosaur based on how big it is even without enamel. 

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Ctenecanthus fish spine, found February 5th 2017 in Gilboa NY. Gilboa formation, Middle Devonian. Donated to American Museum of Natural History.

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On 2/10/2017 at 4:30 PM, jpc said:

might need some lightened photos of the Bakersfield tooth.  Hard to see it for what it is.  (My two cents).

I tried to take some better pics, it's kind of hard the tooth is so dark.   

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Very rare Pachyarmatherium scute, found 2/3/17. North Florida, Early Pleistocene. I.D'd by Dr. Hulbert.

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Jake.

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I think this counts as vertebrate, right? Tetrapod footprint, unknown species since it's the first recorded one from the formation I found it in! Western Maryland, Upper coal layers of the Purslane Formation, Pocono Group. Lower Mississippian (lower to middle Visean) aged. It's pretty cool because the rocks I found it in come from a time period when worldwide tetrapod fossils and footprints are very rare called Romer's Gap. I found it on February 2, 2017. 

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Invertebrate

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Spathites puercoensis

Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Carlile Shale

New Mexico, USA

Discovered: February 12th

 

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"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    

 

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 Huge Ammonite Septum for NSR. Found Feb 13. North Sulphur River Texas. Upper Cretaceous Ozan Formation.

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Alright, i'll put in a vertebrate entry:

 

Found yesterday, 14/2/17. Popped out after work to check a game camera - wasnt even meaning to look for fossils lol.

 

Anyways..


It's a vertebra from the largest terrestrial lizard known to have ever existed, Megalania prisca (or is it now Varanus priscus?). They got to about 20' long. Fun fact: it is thought that the first Aborigines in Australia probably met them...wouldn't that have been fun?

 

Lets go with:

Megalania prisca

Pleistocene,

Queensland, Australia

 

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"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."

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Ash, looking at your concept picture, I'm not so convinced how "fun" that really would have been. 

 

 

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I'll chime in an invertebrate entry.

 

It's a smashed arachnid, probably a Phalangiotarbi as identified by Dr. J. Dunlop.

 

I found it back on February 11, but collected it on February 2 like the other tetrapod footprint. Sometimes it's harder for me to see things in the field than at home, especially smaller specimens like this. Age is lower Mississippian, Purslane Formation which is part of the Pocono Group. Western Maryland, USA. It's pretty cool since it's one of the first arachnids from the formation, and is mostly all there! It's only missing a couple of legs on the right side.

 

How often do you see an arachnid on here? ;)

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Hello all,

It been a few monthes since i brought a french trilobite here. Be ready to see a few in the coming year though.

So for this month, my candidate is another ...

 

Neseuretus Tristani

Ordovician /  Landeilien (-460 MA)

Found in La Dominelais - Brittany - France on feb 15th 2017

Prep finished today (feb 26th 2017)

Size : 11 cm long

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Hirudocidaris sp. Santonian (late cretaceous). Northern Spain. Found and cleaned by miself. Rare echinoid from this site and very good preservation for this strata of the region.

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1 minute ago, MOROPUS said:

Hirudocidaris sp. Santonian (late cretaceous). Northern Spain. Found and cleaned by miself. Rare echinoid from this site and very good preservation for this strata of the region.

 

 

 

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When?

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

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5 hours ago, MOROPUS said:

It was found two years ago.... And got lost for two years, unpreppered, inside a box.... Until two weeks ago.

 

It's beautiful.  :) 

 

However, to qualify for the contest, we will need to see "before preparation" photos, and the preparation must have been "Significant" (per the Guidelines).  ;) 

 

@MOROPUS

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

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FOUND, COLLECTED & ASSEMBLED BY A 17 YEAR OLD

 

Partial Porpoise/Dolphin Skeleton (Identified by 2 Paleontologists as probably Goniodelphis or Pomatodelphis)

Pamunkey River - Central VA

Calvert Formation, Zone 12, (Miocene) literally sitting on top of the Oligocene "Old Church Formation." (Only Oligocene Formation in all of VA.) Some bones protruded slightly into the Old Church.

Atlas, ear bone multiple vertebrae, humerus and other arm bone PLUS 18 teeth. Still sorting out the other random bone collected with skeletal pieces.

(So far, 12 vertebrae, 6 separate ribs, 18 teeth, 2 arm bones and an ear bone, plus lots of random bone to be sorted out.)

 

In sit u on 2-11-17 / tide was coming in fast so we only had hand for scale

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Cleaning in my bathroom. Mom and dad were not happy!!! Something about cleaning sediment out of "U" trap under sink???

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Laid out for photos. Reassemble is a work in progress.

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Neck verts including atlas and caudal, plus 18 teeth AND ear bone

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Almost complete vert.

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Humerus

 

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Very nice specimen and great job assembling it.

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My first entry ever here. I know shark teeth are, generally speaking, common fossils to find. This tooth, however, has been a dream find of mine almost since I began fossil hunting. 

 

Found Feb. 28th 2017

Carcharocles angustidens

Oligocene era. 

Ashley Formation,

Charleston SC

4" 

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