Cris Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 The winner of the 2018 VFOTM goes to... the Elonichthys peligerus Fish from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Wilmington, Illinois, USA! Congrats to @Nimravis on finding the fossil and winning the competition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Bones Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Congratulations Nimravis ! Great find and beautiful detail ! Those scales.... Wow ! 1 ' Keep calm and carry on fossiling ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Congratulations Ralph, on the win and nice find! 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...
Ludwigia Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Congratulations! 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Amazing fossil, I knew there had to be a FOTM or two in all those buckets! Congrats on the well-deserved win! 1 “...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...
Nimravis Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Thanks much everyone- I am very excited for this. When I first cracked it open and it shattered a bit, I felt something in the pit of my stomach, one I saw the scales and thought- “What did I do?” Sometimes the blow of Thor’s hammer to too hard on these concretions. Thanks again for the nice comments, and all of the other entries were spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike from North Queensland Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Congratulations Nimvaris on a wonderful find Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Congrats Ralph ! 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...
caldigger Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Wait a minute, something seems a little fishy about this win!!! I knew it would, good show 'ol man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Congratulations an awesome fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Congratulations on the awesome fossil and the win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 @Ancient Bones , @ynot , @Ludwigia , @WhodamanHD , @Mike from North Queensland , @Coco , @caldigger , @Troodon and @old bones thanks for the nice comments, I really appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Congratulations Ralph. That is a truly remarkable specimen. Nice to see your fish win it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 4 hours ago, Jeffrey P said: Congratulations Ralph. That is a truly remarkable specimen. Nice to see your fish win it. Thanks Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Such a great example of this fish. Congratulations, sir. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belemniten Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Thats a great find! Congrats Well deserved win! Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils Regards Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilsAnonymous Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Congratulations on this amazing fish! On The Hunt For The Trophy Otodus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Awesome,Ralph!Great find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 @fossilized6s , @belemniten , @doushantuo and@FossilsAnonymous for the nice comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Would you be interested in a bit of 2018 Elonichthys lore? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Awesome fish, Ralph "Thor's Hammer" Nimravis! I remember seeing examples of this species on my recent visit to the Field Museum and thinking that those must have been found decades ago and that nobody finds those these days. Only took you 15 years to get this one open. Who knows what's hiding on your other old stubborn nodules? Time to play Whac-A-Mole with them. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paciphacops Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Congrats! "Don't force it, just use a bigger hammer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Congrats on the win, great preservation on that piece 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...
Fossildude19 Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Congratulations, Ralph! Excellent find. You don't see too many fish coming from those concretions these days. 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...
Nimravis Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 4 hours ago, digit said: Awesome fish, Ralph "Thor's Hammer" Nimravis! I remember seeing examples of this species on my recent visit to the Field Museum and thinking that those must have been found decades ago and that nobody finds those these days. Only took you 15 years to get this one open. Who knows what's hiding on your other old stubborn nodules? Time to play Whac-A-Mole with them. Cheers. -Ken Thanks Ken and I am doing it on a daily basis, it will just take a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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