Cris Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 The winner of the Aprtil 2018 VFOTM is... the Thylacoleo carnifex (Marsupial Lion) Skull from the Pleistocene of Queensland, Australia! A huge congrats to @Ash for finding such an incredible fossil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Congratulations on the wonderful find and the win! 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...
Fossildude19 Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Stellar find, Ash! Congratulations! 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...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 A tremendous fossil. Only ever going to be one winner this month. Superb. Congratulations. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 I admit I had to look this thing up to get a grasp at what it looked like in life. Still not sure even looking at museum mock ups and skeletons. Very weird dental fixtures. Their entire "molar" portion looks to be one elongated solid molar tooth on each side. Very strange indeed...I like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Wow, words can't describe this specimen. We've all seen saber tooths, but this is like their evil cousin! Congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Congratulations on this phenomenal find, so cool!!! 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...
Coco Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Hi, Congrats for this rare found ! Coco ---------------------- 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 Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleoflor Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Spectecular find, well deserved win. Congratulations! Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 A well deserved win, a truly amazing specimen! Congrats! “...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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Thanks guys and gals. Funnily enough these are most closely related to koalas and wombats. This is also the first skull we’ve found, and it just happened to be a Thylacoleo, which is also our first Thylacoleo! Looking back it’s a bit shocking - we almost didn’t even dig this out under the misguidance it was probably just a partial pelvis from a roo But we got it out a couple weeks after finding it and boy am I glad we did! Skye, thanks again for everything. Yeah they basically had only 8 useable teeth. 4 incisors (2 on upper and 2 on lower jaw) and then the 4 shearing teeth, again 2 on upper and 2 on lower. Other than those they had several piddley little teeth that didn’t really do anything Cheers. 3 "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesuslover340 Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 @Ash remember how we were begrudgingly prepping it, still thinking it was just a partial roo pelvis? And then we started uncovering those teeth? How shocked we were? "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."-Romans 14:19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 MANY MANY congratulations,AMAZING find!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Congratulations, Ash! What a fantastic find! I am so pleased for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Congratulations! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 I knew this fossil was going to win, and deservidly so. Spelling? Really cool and rare fossil!!! Congratulations. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Congrats, Troy. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Incredible find and congrats on the win Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike from North Queensland Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Congratulations Ash and Skye on finding such a rare find, with low numbers due to being on the top of the food chain. When finding a mega fauna skull, that is the one to find. Mike D'Arcy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Bones Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Congratulations Ash, wonderful find ! ' Keep calm and carry on fossiling ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Amateur Paleontologist Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 That's a nice skull Well done! Opalised fossils are the best: a wonderful mix between paleontology and mineralogy! Q. Where do dinosaurs study? A. At Khaan Academy!... My ResearchGate profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesuslover340 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Thanks everyone! It's officially been named "Crackers" for all the cracks we had to deal with, but it was worth it in the end! 1 "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."-Romans 14:19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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