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Winner of the August 2017 Invertebrate / Plant Find Of The Month!

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Congrats Malcomt !

 

Coco

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OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici

Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici
Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici
Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici
Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici
Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici
Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici

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Congratulations @Malcolmt, a worthy specimen indeed!

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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Excellent find and beautiful piece congrats :1-SlapHands_zpsbb015b76:

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

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Congratulations on the wonderfully rare find, Malcolm. :) 

 

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Shellseeker Regular Member

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Beautiful fossil.. and great job bringing the past to life..  Congratulations

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Malcolmt Regular Member

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Wow....glad I signed in this morning .......Congrats to all the other entries..... every month there are such good specimens to choose from.  Its amazing that we regularly get to see and view world class specimens ......   plant , invertebrate and vertebrate here on the Fossil Forum. This forum for me greatly enhances the enjoyment of what used to be a pretty solitary hobby before I discovered this hiding place for former and current science geeks.....

 

As for  this months crop of allstars ..... for a while I thought these little guys were going to get left behind in the mud by a swarm of trilos..... good job Jeffrey P

 

And truth be know I almost voted for the plant...... sure wish it belonged to me. (still think plants should not be part of Invertebrate category)

 

  I am especially pleased that this specimen received your support.There are certainly more spectacular plates to look at but even finding one of these is an incredibly rare event.  I am fortunate to live in an area that has the potential to produce some remarkable fossils. I am also fortunate in having a decent prep lab that for me makes the hobby all the more satisfying and quite frankly makes the fossils look a heck of a lot better than when they are found.  The funny thing is that in the field this fossil truly looked like nothing and I almost left it behind. I had found probably 400 - 500 pounds of matrix that day before getting out the diamond saw and was definitely concerned about my ability to get this rock out of the pit and back to the car which is about a kilometer trek.

 

I finished prepping this specimen last week but decided against posting a picture of it completed until after the voting since I had already entered it.

 

So for a while anyway this gem is going to be a star attraction in the center of my "weird invertebrate" display. However I suspect that it will find its way eventually to  being donated to a research collection.

 

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Note to Chris....... After consideration and consultation with far more knowledgeable individuals I believe the plate to be Astocysties ottawaensis and Carabocrinus vancortlandti. It would be appreciated if you could make that change for me as I can no longer edit the original post. Perhaps you can add this picture to your archived post

 

Once again thank you all for your support and most of all for the friendships I have developed over the years with many of you. Remember there is always room for you on one of my little fossil excursions up here in the great white north, I go most weekends weather permitting .......just PM me and let me know when you might be in the neighborhood.

 

Malcolm

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Brett Breakin' Rocks Regular Member

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  One of these days I will prep something .. and I know when that day comes it will be an utter disaster.  That is why I will look back fondly on this wonderful specimen sitting in a framed image above my prep table next to RB's crab images and continue to be inspired. 

 

One day ...

 

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Shamalama Regular Member

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:faint::drool:  I had to install a drool gutter to carry the accumulated precipitate out of my house after I saw that plate. Quite the find! You do well up there, Wish I was half as successful as you and Kevin are. 

 

Congrats!

-Dave

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Malcolmt Regular Member

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41 minutes ago, Shamalama said:

:faint::drool:  I had to install a drool gutter to carry the accumulated precipitate out of my house after I saw that plate. Quite the find! You do well up there, Wish I was half as successful as you and Kevin are. 

 

Congrats!

Ya.... but I droll over one  of your fossils that is at my house ever time I see it....... Good thing for me that you don't get up here all that often to pick your stuff up

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15 minutes ago, Malcolmt said:

Ya.... but I droll over one  of your fossils that is at my house ever time I see it....... Good thing for me that you don't get up here all that often to pick your stuff up

Quite the deadbeat I am! 

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Awesome Malcolm, great find.

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Congratulations, Malcolm. I knew your find had to win in the end, but you were up against some pretty stiff competion. I never cease to marvel at the quality of some of our member's finds and acquisitions.

 

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Excellent find! Congrats on the win! :)

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Jeffrey P Regular Member

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Congratulations Malcolm. Your rare and beautiful echinoderm piece, wonderfully prepped, is a very deserving winner. 

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