JohnJ Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 OK, January was a little light on the vertebrate entries; so some of you fossil hunters need 'put your backbone into it' this month! 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JarrodB Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 A good start for this months contest! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBMugu Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 desmostylus tooth Found Feb 1 2017 in Bakersfield CA, round mountain silt formation, Miocene epoch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 might need some lightened photos of the Bakersfield tooth. Hard to see it for what it is. (My two cents). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dsailor Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Ctenecanthus fish spine, found February 5th 2017 in Gilboa NY. Gilboa formation, Middle Devonian. Donated to American Museum of Natural History. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dsailor Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBMugu Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefossilkid Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Very rare Pachyarmatherium scute, found 2/3/17. North Florida, Early Pleistocene. I.D'd by Dr. Hulbert. Jake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMP Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Invertebrate Spathites puercoensis Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Carlile Shale New Mexico, USA Discovered: February 12th Photos from the field/prep: 1 "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...
JarrodB Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Huge Ammonite Septum for NSR. Found Feb 13. North Sulphur River Texas. Upper Cretaceous Ozan Formation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 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 1 "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...
Dsailor Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 that vertebra is awesome, nice find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Ash, looking at your concept picture, I'm not so convinced how "fun" that really would have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMP Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 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? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elcoincoin Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 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. When? The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 It was found two years ago.... And got lost for two years, unpreppered, inside a box.... Until two weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 I didn't realize it was such a nice Cidaris! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daleksec Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Quote 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 Cleaning in my bathroom. Mom and dad were not happy!!! Something about cleaning sediment out of "U" trap under sink??? Laid out for photos. Reassemble is a work in progress. Neck verts including atlas and caudal, plus 18 teeth AND ear bone Almost complete vert. Humerus 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailingAlongToo Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Very nice specimen and great job assembling it. Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science books......... Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharks of SC Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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