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On 5/9/2018 at 12:32 PM, Carl said:

Cretodus crassidens tooth (with bonus fish vertebra)

Catoma Creek, Montgomery, Montgomery Co., Alabama

Upper Cretaceous (Upper Santonian) Tombigbee Sand Member, Eutaw Formation

Found 2 May 2018, prep completed 9 May 2018

 

 

Now that's cool. 

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1. Coprolite

2. Upper cretaceous, Maastritchian

3. South-West of France

4. Found May 15

 

Coprolite with marks of predation.

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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I found and prepped a really cool fossil that will give caterpillar a challenge.   Will post later but for now... Fait gaffe Monsiuer caterpillar, il y a un petit croco qui viens bouffer ton immense crane.    

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I spent a few days in the Eocene of southwest Wyoming this week. Took a few days off from work before the summer rush.  I went to a few favortie spots and tried a few new ones.  This is my entry for May 2018.  Found on 23 May, prepped on 24 May.  Alligator jaw from the Wasatch Fm. at Patrick Draw. Years ago I would have called it Allognathosuchus, but Chris Brochu has renamed most Eocene crocodilians from around here and I would have to look it up.

 

A few folks have been to this site with me... caterpillar and nando (who we has gone AWOL from this forum).  The prep work was done under the microscope, air abraded with fine bicarb at 20 to 60 psi and took two listenings to Dark Side of The Moon, so about 1 1/2 hours.  

 

My pictures are kinda lousy; I am learning to use a new camera and haven't figured out the indoor stuff yet.  

 

Here is the mess of mudstone and the jaw as it was unearthed.  Bone is brown,teeth are facing left.  Two of the teeth, including the big one, are missing and were found in the rock that had the impression of the jaw.  They had to be surgically re-attached.  

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And here are a few views of it prepped including one with a scale thumb .

 

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Insane finds...

 

@jpc incredible find and great prep job for this tiny jaw of an awesome predator!

 

@thelivingdead531 that is a very nice, and very thick-shelled gastropod! Very cool find!

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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11 hours ago, jpc said:

 This is my entry for May 2018.  Found on 23 May, prepped on 24 May.  Alligator jaw from the Wasatch Fm. at Patrick Draw. Years ago I would have called it Allognathosuchus, but Chris Brochu has renamed most Eocene crocodilians from around here and I would have to look it up.

Awesome find!

I really do appreciate the effort you put into prepping this tiny yet perfect jaw.

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@jpc What an immaculate little jaw! Great job on the prep!

“...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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My invert entry, 2 inches longest side, 1 1/2 widest. More than fifty Tentaculites sp. and many ostracods.

Sunday, May 20, 2018

Ostracod and Tentaculites sp. Hash Plate

McKenzie Formation/Rochester Shale

Allegany County, Maryland

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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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Hi all, will enter the fray with a double trilobite block :

 

Specie : Ectillaenus giganteus

Found : may 8th

End of prep : may 30 th

Place : La Dominelais (Brittany - France)

Era : ordovician ( Llandeilian -  460 MY)

Size : 11 X  4 cm and 6 X 7 cm

 

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Preped :

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Detail on both

 

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Here are my two last-minute entries!

 

Gastropod 

(unidentified --> I think Truncatollidea superfamily)

The Hague, Netherlands

Eem Formation; 

Eemian, Pleistocene; 120'000 y

Found 14/5/2018

 

 

 

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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

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Astarte bivalve

(Astartidae indet.)

The Hague, Netherlands

Eem Formation; 

Eemian, Pleistocene; 120'000 y

Found 14/5/2018

 

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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

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Good luck to everyone! :)

A smashing selection again this month 

Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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Here is my first entry ever into the competition: a Pennsylvanian sponge from the Naco Formation located north of Payson, Arizona. The sponge, 10 cm long, is preserved in red chert that I dissolved from limestone. This is the best piece that I have personally collected or seen.

 

Collected: May 22, 2018.

Chaunactis Olsoni sponge

Pennsylvanian Naco Fm.

north of Payson, Arizona

 

 

 

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My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned.   

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Another last minute entry.

Date of discovery : 29th May 2018

Scientific or Common name : Mammoth species, medial phalange

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation : Pleistocene (Wroxham Crag?)

State, Province, or Region found : East Runton beach, Norfolk, Great Britain

 

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As found, before picking it up.

 

Please see here for details of the fossil hunting trip on which it was found:

 

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I spent all of May preparing this and am submitting it minutes before the deadline! 

Paleozoic sea floor plate with crinoid stems, Anthacospirifer brachiopod, Derbyia brachiopods, Composita brachiopod, Phillipsiidae indet trilobite pygidium.

Found August 2017

Prepared May 2018

Naco Formation, Upper Pennsylvanian

South-Central Arizona

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This thing was super hard to prepare. The matrix was almost the exact same hardness as many of the fossils. It was painstaking. I'm so glad to be done with it. 

 

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There's going to be a slight delay getting this month's polling threads up. They should be done sometime tomorrow.

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