Fossildude19 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 March is coming in like a Lion, for some of us in the Northeastern US. The pounding rain insures we won't be fossil-hunting for a few days, at the very least! But others around the country or world can get out there and make some fantastic finds. I suggest you do so! ************************************************************* Remember...PLEASE carefully read all of the rules below, ... make sure you include all the required information, in the requested format, 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 March 31st. 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. 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 MARCH 2018 ! Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry! Good luck! 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.N.FossilmanLithuania Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Hi Guys, I am going to post two new vertebrates and two new invertebrates. The first is one of my best invertebrates: Date of finding: 2nd March 2018 Taxon: Receptaculites Fisherites sp. green algae Age: Lasnamagi formation, Middle Ordovician. Location: Juodikiai quarry, Klaipeda district (Northeastern Lithuania, Baltic Stes. Please vote if you like it Best Regards Domas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.N.FossilmanLithuania Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 The second is the best my sea urchin ever found (I found it two days ago): Date of finding: 1st March 2018 Taxon: Echinocorys sp. (the diameter is 8,5 cm) Age: Late Cretaceous (found as erratic, unsplited and unprepped!) Location: Varena town, South Lithuania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.N.FossilmanLithuania Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 And finally, two vertebrates found in recent days. Date Of finding: 1st March 2018 Taxon: Ichthyodectiformes (bulldog fish) scale. Age: Kimmeridgian, Late Jurassic. Location: Varena town, South Lithuania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.N.FossilmanLithuania Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 And the last vertebrate. Date of finding: 1st March, 2018 Taxon: Rhizodontidae gnathal plate Age: Late Famennian, end of Devonian Location: Varena town, South Lithuania. Cast your vote if you like this! Best Regards Domas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 And so it begins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Hey all, this isn't the place to talk about your plans and the FOTM you hope to find. This is where you show the great fossils you have already collected (bearing in mind the rules of course). Don 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 On 3/3/2018 at 5:45 AM, D.N.FossilmanLithuania said: The first is one of my best invertebrates: Taxon: Receptaculites sp. green algae Age: Lasnamagi formation, Middle Ordovician. Date of finding: 2nd March 2018 Location: Juodikiai quarry, Klaipeda district (Northeastern Lithuania, Baltic Stes. The genus Receptaculites is restricted to the Devonian. All the 'Receptaculites' from the Ordovician are now classified as: Fisherites "The best-known receptaculitids are the Ordovician to Carboniferous family Receptaculitidae, which in the Ordovician consists of a single genus, Fisherites, with nine species ranging from TS.2c through 6b. They are the largest receptaculitids known and are widely distributed in limestones and dolomites. Their wide geographic distribution is comparable to that of soanitids, except that the concentration of their distribution is in central North America. They are also found in the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Baltoscandia, Burma, North Korea, Thailand, and the Argentine Precordillera but have not been reported from China." Nitecki, M.H., Webby, B.D., Spjeldnaes, N., & Yong-Yi, Z. (2004) Receptaculitids and algae. In: Webby, B.D., Paris, F., Droser, M.L., & Percival, I.G. (eds.) The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Columbia University Press, 484 pp. The classification of receptaculitids is not algae or sponge, it is still unresolved Problematica. "We know that we have succeeded only in showing that receptaculitids were neither sponges, archaeocyathids, nor dasyclads, because the cumulative receptaculitid characters are not those of sponges or of algae. It is surely premature to ask what they were-we must still wait to know that. We are far from providing final answers, but we hope that others will be stimulated to ask new questions, and to accept receptaculitids as more than the sum of their characters. The preponderant lesson from our morphological analyses has shown us that complete understanding of the nature of the receptaculitids is not yet possible; therefore, in order to build a strong case on the nature of receptaculitids we either had to endlessly speculate, or admit our ignorance. The German idioms and expressions have changed since Rauff wrote (1892a:648), and the current rendition of his conclusions as shown in our Dedication (p. v) may now be rephrased. We now believe that we do not know enough to be definitive, and have been left no choice but to follow Rauff in retaining receptaculitids in the Problematica." (Translation of Rauff 1892a:648) "My investigation on the true nature of receptaculitids has had the painful result of again evicting these interesting fossils from their taxonomic position, and setting them adrift once more. Perhaps my observations on their most extraordinary structures will help some luckier, more informed person discover their true affinities. It is this hope which has caused me to publish this work even without its most important conclusion; at least it may serve as a basis for further analysis. Receptaculitids are again removed from their taxonomic position, without resolving their systematics, and it is hoped that the present paper will form the bases for future phylogenetic analyses." Nitecki, M.H., Mutvei, H., & Nitecki, D.V. (1999) Receptaculitids: a phylogenetic debate on a problematic fossil taxon. Springer Scientific Publishing, 241 pp. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTexan Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 I’ve never posted anything for fossil of the month. I’ll give it a go with my Oxy I found on March 3, 18 in Grayson county Texas. The geologic map calls it Washita group, because so many layers are present in the strata. The Rockd app called it Duck Creek. I found it near the bottom of a lot of exposed strata in something of a transitional layer so it is either early Duck Creek Formation or Kiamichi. I don’t think Oxy show up in the Duck Creek. So it could be late Kiamichi, but it sure looked like Duck Creek around there. Here is my Oxytropidoceras elaboratum elaboratum in the buff, as I found it. The whorl breadth is 50 mm near the aperture. The diameter is 268 mm. Found on March 3, 18 Oxytropidoceras elaboratum elaboratum ammonite. Early Cretaceous, probably Kiamichi Formation Grayson County, Texas. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 @KimTexan wow! huge! 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." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cthulhu2 Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Hey guys, first FOM post here, so i hope I'm doing this right! Date when found: March 4th, 2018 Mammut Americanum. partial tooth. Age: Pleistocene. Location: Jacksonville, Florida. If I need to correct anything do let me know! -Terry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeargleSchmeargl Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Heating up much faster than it did in Feb (figuratively and very literally!) Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 1 hour ago, MeargleSchmeargl said: Heating up much faster than it did in Feb (figuratively and very literally!) Well Feb. was a short month. Those extra days can make a world of difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JarrodB Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 I'll toss my hat in the ring. Possibly the first Pterousar limb bone to be found at the North Sulphur River Texas. Found 3/8/18 Pterousar Limb Bone North Sulphur River Texas Cretaceous Ozan FM North Sulphur River Texas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JarrodB Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 On 3/6/2018 at 11:30 PM, KimTexan said: I’ve never posted anything for fossil of the month. I’ll give it a go with my Oxy I found on March 3, 18 in Grayson county Texas. The geologic map calls it Washita group, because so many layers are present in the strata. The Rockd app called it Duck Creek. I found it near the bottom of a lot of exposed strata in something of a transitional layer so it is either early Duck Creek Formation or Kiamichi. I don’t think Oxy show up in the Duck Creek. So it could be late Kiamichi, but it sure looked like Duck Creek around there. Here is my Oxytropidoceras elaboratum elaboratum in the buff, as I found it. The whorl breadth is 50 mm near the aperture. The diameter is 268 mm. Very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 On 3/6/2018 at 11:30 PM, KimTexan said: I’ve never posted anything for fossil of the month. I’ll give it a go with my Oxy I found on March 3, 18 in Grayson county Texas. The geologic map calls it Washita group, because so many layers are present in the strata. The Rockd app called it Duck Creek. I found it near the bottom of a lot of exposed strata in something of a transitional layer so it is either early Duck Creek Formation or Kiamichi. I don’t think Oxy show up in the Duck Creek. So it could be late Kiamichi, but it sure looked like Duck Creek around there. Here is my Oxytropidoceras elaboratum elaboratum in the buff, as I found it. The whorl breadth is 50 mm near the aperture. The diameter is 268 mm. Hello Kim, nice find! I need to ask you to please put the pertinent information in the format outlined in the rules. 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.) Thanks. On 3/8/2018 at 11:59 PM, JarrodB said: I'll toss my hat in the ring. Possibly the first Pterousar limb bone to be found at the North Sulphur River Texas. Pterousar Limb Bone North Sulphur River Texas Cretaceous Ozan Jarrod, can you please add the date of your discovery? Thanks. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JarrodB Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 20 hours ago, Fossildude19 said: Hello Kim, nice find! I need to ask you to please put the pertinent information in the format outlined in the rules. Thanks. Got it. Thanks Jarrod, can you please add the date of your discovery? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 39 minutes ago, JarrodB said: Thanks, Jarrod. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.N.FossilmanLithuania Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Dear Guys, Please let me know- should I post my Fisherites fossil photo with new name for the second time? Best Regards Domas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTexan Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 On 3/9/2018 at 6:10 AM, JarrodB said: Very nice Jarrod yours should totally win. That is the coolest NSR find. My favorite prehistoric animal when I was a kid was a Pterodactyl. I thought they were so cool. So, I think your find is a special one. Congratulations on such a cool find mister. I’m happy and excited for you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 On 3/11/2018 at 1:32 AM, D.N.FossilmanLithuania said: Dear Guys, Please let me know- should I post my Fisherites fossil photo with new name for the second time? Best Regards Domas Not necessary. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTexan Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) On 3/9/2018 at 10:31 AM, Fossildude19 said: Hello Kim, nice find! I need to ask you to please put the pertinent information in the format outlined in the rules. 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.) Thanks. Sorry, I didn’t realize there was a particular format for the posting. March 3, 2018 Oxytropidoceras elaboratum elaboratum Cretaceous, Washita group, lower Duck Creek most likely. Grayson county, Texas I haven’t done anything to prep it. It’s kind of fragile. It seems to be a cast (steinkern) of shale and cleaning it kind of washes away the features. Edited March 12, 2018 by KimTexan Date type-o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 15 minutes ago, KimTexan said: Sorry, I didn’t realize there was a particular format for the posting. March 3, 3018 Your about 1000 years early on Your entry! 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTexan Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 8 minutes ago, ynot said: Your about 1000 years early on Your entry! Oops thanks for pointing that out. Fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilSloth Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Date Found : 25 October 2017 Majority of Preparation: March 2018. Scientific Name : Asaphiscus wheeleri Geologic Age and Formation: Middle Cambrian, Wheeler Shale Location: House Range, Utah (U-Dig) Length: 2.0 inches / 5.1 centimeters I thought this was nothing and kept it in my junk pile, but when I uncovered it, it was mostly all there! There is a bit of restoration (mostly to repair when I was too aggressive with the air scribe) but it's ~90% authentic. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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