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November 2017 Finds of the Month


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As we leave behind autumns' golds, reds, and oranges, and brace for the upcoming winter, we usually give thanks this time of year for a bountiful harvest. 

As fossil collectors, based on the finds so far this year, it has indeed been a bountiful fossil harvest. :) 

Yet, we still have another month  in which to find fossils here in the Northeast USA, while some people are just gearing up for their hunting season in other parts of the country/world. That said, it is time,  once again, to find something amazing, and post it here for all to view on the FOTM Contest. 

 

 

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Remember...PLEASE 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 until midnight on November 30th.

 

 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. NO PURCHASED FOSSILS.

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. 


*******Please use the following format for the required information:*******

 

Date of discovery

Scientific or Common name

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation

State, Province, or Region found

Photos (if prepped, before and after photos, please.)

 

Photos of the winning specimens may be posted to TFF's Facebook page.

Once the Contest Submission period has ended, after all the votes are tallied, and the Polls for both categories are closed, we will know the two winning Finds of the Month for NOVEMBER - 2017 !  

 

Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry!

    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

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I again want to participate this month with a Temnodontosaurus tooth from Holzmaden.

The tooth is about 2 cm long (2.2 cm) and 1 cm wide, so its one of my biggest tooth I have ever found.

Temnodontosaurus is a large Ichthyosaur, which mainly hunted ammonites.

In the "Schlacke" (a specific layer) you can sometimes find smaller teeth but such big teeth in a good condition are very rare.

Because of that I am really happy about this find !
 
Date of discovery: November 5th, 2017, the prep work took about 4 hours.
Scientific or Common name: Temnodontosaurus tooth
Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Lower Jurassic, "Schlacke"
State, Province, or Region found: Germany, Holzmaden, quarry Kromer

 

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Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

Regards Sebastian

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Hi, 

I'm new to the forum and I would like to participate in the contest with the Devonian trilobites from Poland :)

I found them on October 20th, but I had to send it to a professional for preparation - and I picked them up from him last week, so I enclose the "before" and "after" pictures.

 

Date of discovery: October 20th

Date of preparation completion: November 8th

Scientific or Common name: Trimerocephalus chopinii

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Devonian

State, Province, or Region found: Poland, Kowala quarry

 

 

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After 2 years of digging for shark teeth hoping to find a big Meg, I finally found one. It is over 5 inches long and in very good condition. I am posting photos of the tooth still in the layer/matrix in which it fossilized and after I cleaned it.

 

Date of discovery: Nov 10, 2017

Scientific or Common name: Carcharocles megalodon (a.k.a. Megalodon or Meg).

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Miocene Age, Round Mountain Silt Formation

State, Province, or Region found: Ernst Quarries, Bakersfield, California, USA.

 

 

 

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Love the red color of that Meg. *wub*

-Dave

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4 hours ago, Fruitbat said:

I can just hear you excavating that megalodon tooth now!  "PLEASE be in one piece!  Please! Please! PLEASE!"  :ighappy:

 

-Joe

That's exactly what we were saying!

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Been there...done that...got the T-Shirt...only mine wasn't a megalodon tooth!  Mine was with a rhinoceros mandible from the Pliocene of Northwest Texas (which WAS in one piece)!

 

-Joe

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Has that mandible been pictured on TFF before? If not, I'd love to see it (in a topic of its own).

 

BTW: Stellar finds so far and the month is just halfway complete.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

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Rather serendipitously, this Pallimnarchus croc jaw was found while we were taking a break from fossil hunting and went fishing instead on a property we already searched (and had permission to go on). Silly us. There are no breaks from fossil hunting!

Posting this a few days later after the initial discovery because we ( @Ash and I) wanted to clean and stabilize it. Had to scrub off a lot of algae. Then we took it to the museum just the other day; found out it is likely the most complete and best preserved jaw of Pallimnarchus pollens found to date! We'll be taking it back to get it CT scanned, but that's our update for now :)

 

Date of discovery: November 12th, 2017

Scientific or Common name: Pallimnarchus pollens jaw

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Plio-Pleistocene

State, Province, or Region found: Australia

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To add it's also the only one known with essentially all its teeth and will fill in some knowledge gaps for the species after the CT scanning. So that's handy.

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine

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Nice croc!

 

Glad the local museum is getting a chance to have a look at this if it is more complete than other specimens. Good on ya.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

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@Jesuslover340 you and @Ash find the coolest stuff!!! That thing is just killer! Congratulations, guys. 

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On 11/16/2017 at 3:17 PM, Jesuslover340 said:

Rather serendipitously, this Pallimnarchus croc jaw was found while we were taking a break from fossil hunting and went fishing instead on a property we already searched (and had permission to go on). Silly us. There are no breaks from fossil hunting!

Posting this a few days later after the initial discovery because we ( @Ash and I) wanted to clean and stabilize it. Had to scrub off a lot of algae. Then we took it to the museum just the other day; found out it is likely the most complete and best preserved jaw of Pallimnarchus pollens found to date! We'll be taking it back to get it CT scanned, but that's our update for now :)

 

Date of discovery: November 12th, 2017

Scientific or Common name: Pallimnarchus pollens jaw

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Plio-Pleistocene

State, Province, or Region found: Australia

 

Awesome find!!! Doesn't get any better than that. Aussie croc fossils are very rare so little is known about them. Considering the amount of crocs that are around here today I think more finds like these need to be made to get a better picture of the history of crocs in Australia. Surely they have always been a large part of the ecosystem even tho there isn't all that much in the fossil record. 

"That belongs in a museum!"

- Indiana Jones

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On 11/16/2017 at 3:17 PM, Jesuslover340 said:

 

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I love the emerging teeth in the jaw. Nice find!

-Dave

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Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPhee

If I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPhee

Check out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/

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digit...

 

No...unfortunately I no longer have the rhino mandible due to unforeseen circumstances (it's a LONG story that I really don't want to get into).  It was a gem!  Teleoceras...complete right mandible with all teeth (including a very large incisor) in place (though slightly freeze-damaged). :(

 

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I guess I should enter my crinoid while I still have it. It was found October 21st and the last prep work done Nov. 11 (thanks again Malcolm). It's from the Ordovician Bobcaygeon formation in Ontario and will soon be on it's way to the Smithsonian to be described. Everyone there when I found it was stumped as to ID and after a lot of emailing and messaging, the result is, at the very least, a genus unreported from Ontario and possibly a new species.

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Great find Kevin, I hope they can definitively tell what it is. The ROM doesn't want a look at it?

-Dave

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Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPhee

If I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPhee

Check out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/

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Wow, that crinoid is a beaut.  Seeing it in 3D vs the flat plane is very cool thanks to Malcolm's lovely prep work.  Congratulations.

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1 hour ago, Shamalama said:

Great find Kevin, I hope they can definitively tell what it is. The ROM doesn't want a look at it?

The person I'm sending it to is the one working with Crinus' collection, and another specimen from Kevin B. Once the work is done, the whole kit, kat & kaboodle will end up in the UMMP. I never asked the ROM because I thought it better to keep the whole "family" together.

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2 hours ago, Northern Sharks said:

The person I'm sending it to is the one working with Crinus' collection, and another specimen from Kevin B. Once the work is done, the whole kit, kat & kaboodle will end up in the UMMP. I never asked the ROM because I thought it better to keep the whole "family" together.

 

aha...  makes sense.

-Dave

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If I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPhee

Check out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/

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