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It is small and not really in excellent shape but it is still a great find considering the location which is not really common when you speak about Dino fossils.

 

Here is the Ankylosauridae tooth I found this month. 

I am not expecting to win the contest but I didn't know where to show my find without creating an entire post just for 2 pictures.

 

Ankylosauridae tooth

Kumamoto, Japan

Late cretaceous, Turonian

 

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The tooth has been donated to the Mifune Dinosaur Museum.

 

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Warmest greetings from Kumamoto、 Japan

 

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Dear Guys, 

I also will show two invertebrates (trilobites) in my collection.

The first is:

Hadromeros cheirurid trilobite

Age: Late Ordovician

Location: Varena town, South Lithuania (Baltic States)

Date of finding: 20th February 2018

 

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And the second trilobite glabella belongs to rare genus from lichidae:

Platylichas

Age: Kukruse stage, Sandbian, Late Ordovician

Date of finding: 3rd February 2018

Location: Varena town, South Lithuania (Baltic States). :)

 

Please vote if you like it! 

Best Regards

Domas

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Whoa, some fantastic finds here!!! Gonna be very tough to vote... 

Max Derème

 

"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

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Lots of stuff. So many choices...:headscratch:

Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such.

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I'll throw in another non-trilo invert

 

Found February 25th, 2018

Crinoid

Devonian

Arkona, Ontario, Canada

These are opposite sides of the specimen. One showing arms and pinnules, the other shows 2 calyxes.

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@David in Japan WOW! The Ankylo tooth is super cool! Wonder why you don’t hear much about Japanese fossil sites over here; they seem to be splendid!

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I’m trying to get in the habit of posting a fossil here every month. Today we have:

 

      Date: February 7th, 2018

      Location: Brownies Beach, Calvert Co., Maryland, USA

      Age: Calvert formation; early to mid miocene

      Name: Broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) AKA cow shark

size: one inch long about

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“...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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12 minutes ago, WhodamanHD said:

 

      Name: Broadnoss sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) AKA cow shark.

Sorry, doesn't count cause you spelled "Broadnose" incorrectly. :rofl:

 

OK, it's a beautiful tooth and I'm just jealous.

 

 

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6 hours ago, caldigger said:

Sorry, doesn't count cause you spelled "Broadnose" incorrectly. :rofl:

 

OK, it's a beautiful tooth and I'm just jealous.

I’ll blame that on spell check;)

“...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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On 2/26/2018 at 11:03 PM, WhodamanHD said:

@David in Japan WOW! The Ankylo tooth is super cool! Wonder why you don’t hear much about Japanese fossil sites over here; they seem to be splendid!

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I’m trying to get in the habit of posting a fossil here every month. Today we have:

 

      Date: February 7th, 2018

      Location: Brownies Beach, Calvert Co., Maryland, USA

      Age: Calvert formation; early to mid miocene

      Name: Broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) AKA cow shark

size: one inch long about

That cow's lookin' sharp! :meg:

Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such.

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Thank you whodaman. Your tooth is very nice too!

 

Concerning japanese dino material, there are few reason why you do not here a lot about it. 

 

The first one is that dino are really recent here. The first dino found in japan is nipponsaurus in 1934. The beast was found in the sakkhalin when it was still part of japanese territory. However at the time, it was firmly believed amongst japanese paleontologist that no dino ever lived on japanese main island.

They had to wait until 1979 that a 6 years old boy found a theropod tooth in mifune (kumamoto prefecture where i live) to realize there is a big potential there. Now there is dino from hokkaido, fukui (fukuiraptor, fukuititan, fukuivenator, fukuisaurus, koshisaurus), kumamoto etc.

 

The other reason is that dino material is very fragmentary. Except, nipponsaurus and mukawaryu it is really difficult to find associated bones. Lot of fragments and alone bones. So for exemples, here in mifune i can tell you that we have tyrannosaurid material, hadrosauridae material, ankylosauridae material, dromaesauridae, ornithomimosauridae and therizinosaurus material but too fragmentary to accurately identify them.

 

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Warmest greetings from Kumamoto、 Japan

 

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7 hours ago, David in Japan said:

tyrannosaurid material, hadrosauridae material, ankylosauridae material, dromaesauridae, ornithomimosauridae and therizinosaurus material but too fragmentary to accurately identify them.

Reminds me of a site in China, Erlian (Erinhot). Thanks for the info, very cool!

“...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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Hi guys I would like to submit my Wahoo jaw I found last week on the 22th for vertebrate of the month. I also found a 3 tooth fragment on the 26th of Feb in the same slump of zone 10 Calvert formation. In the state of Maryland USA. As you can see the jaw fragment is almost 15 cm. If you need any more information let know I am new to this forum.

 

 

Found February 22 and 26th 

Brownies beach Chesapeake Beach Maryland USA

Age: Mid Miocene Calvert formation zone 10

Name: Wahoo / Acanthocybium Solandri

 

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1 hour ago, Calvert Cliff Dweller said:

Hi guys I would like to submit my Wahoo jaw I found last week on the 22th for vertebrate of the month. I also found a 3 tooth fragment on the 26th of Feb in the same slump of zone 10 Calvert formation. In the state of Maryland USA. As you can see the jaw fragment is almost 15 cm. If you need any more information let know I am new to this forum.

 

Please read the rules at the top of the first page, and put the information in the format requested. ;) 

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This obviously has no chance of winning anything, but I still want to enter this fellow!

 

Date Found: Feb 10, 2018

Isurus oxyrinchus

Age and Formation: Monterey Shale, Miocene

Location: Southern Palos Verdes, California

 

 

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If you're a fossil nut from Palos Verdes, San Pedro, Redondo Beach, or Torrance, feel free to shoot me a PM!

 

 

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5 hours ago, Macrophyseter said:

This obviously has no chance of winning anything, but I still want to enter this fellow!

Like they say at the olympic games: "Taking part is what counts!" :)

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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1 hour ago, Ludwigia said:

Like they say at the olympic games: "Taking part is what counts!" :)

I thought that was, "It doesn't matter how you play the game as long as you win!" ?

Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I thought that was, "It doesn't matter how you play the game as long as you win!" ?

I think that's rather the maxim from a good number of world reknowned politicians.

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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On 2/28/2018 at 10:37 PM, Macrophyseter said:

This obviously has no chance of winning anything, but I still want to enter this fellow!

 

Date Found: Feb 10, 2018

Isurus oxyrinchus

Age and Formation: Monterey Shale, Miocene

Location: Southern Palos Verdes, California

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Please send them via PM, and I will insert them.  ;) 

 

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