November 2018 Finds of the Month Entries

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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 11:59:00 PM EDT on NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Any fossil submitted after that time, even if the thread is still open, will be deemed ineligible! 

 

 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.

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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 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.

Please make sure you arrange for photos if someone else is preparing your fossil find and completes the prep requirements in the contest month.
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. 

Tell us more about your fossil, and why you think it is worthy of the honor. 

*******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  of find:(if prepped, before and after photos, please.)

Limit - 4 photos, please.

 

Only entries posted with a CLEAR photo and that meet the other guidelines will be placed into the Poll. 

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 NOVEMBER 2018 !  

 

 

 

Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry!

Good luck! 

 

 

* " Significant preparation" (ie: substantial, a revealing and/or repairing of important diagnostic features, resulting in a dramatic change in the look of the fossil.) The qualification of significant preparation is decided at the discretion of staff. Any doubts as to the eligibility of the entry will be discussed directly with the entrant.

 

[Vieira]

I begin with a sea urchin from Portugal. This fossil did not needed any preparation. Is was only cleaned....

 

Echinolampas Hemisphaericus

1 november 2018

Miocene - Burdigalian (16-23 ma)

Sesimbra - Portugal 

 

 

 

[Vieira]

[jpc]

wow!

[-AnThOnY-]

^^^^ winner

Contest over, thanks for playing everyone, only vertebrate entries for the rest of the month  

[Tidgy's Dad]

That is beautiful.

And huge! 

[Nimravis]

Very pretty,

[Vieira]

11 hours ago, -AnThOnY- said:

^^^^ winner

Contest over, thanks for playing everyone, only vertebrate entries for the rest of the month  

 

 

Thanks for your words.

[Vieira]

13 hours ago, jpc said:

wow!

 

8 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

That is beautiful.

And huge! 

 

5 hours ago, Nimravis said:

Very pretty,

 

Thanks

[I_gotta_rock]

Not the rarest find, but certainly one of the best-preserved specimens I've ever found, definitely the most colorful, and from a place generally considered worthless for fossil hunting! No prep work required. The constant winds on the beach sand-blasted it out of the matrix so that it is only fused to the matrix under the shell.

 

Mercenaria sp.

Pleistocene

Found November 10, 2018

Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

[Vieira]

One entry for vertebrates:

 

Isurus sp.

1 november 2018

Miocene - Burdigalian (16-23 ma)

Sesimbra - Portugal 

 

In situ:

 

[Vieira]

After cleaning:

 

the tooth have +- 5cm

 

 

 

[PFOOLEY]

Invertebrate

 

 

Coilopoceras inflatum

Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Juana Lopez Mbr. of the Mancos Shale

Sandoval County, NM (USA)

 

Discovered: November 9th, 2018

[Manticocerasman]

23 hours ago, PFOOLEY said:

Invertebrate

 

 

Coilopoceras inflatum

Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Juana Lopez Mbr. of the Mancos Shale

Sandoval County, NM (USA)

 

Discovered: November 9th, 2018

 

that's a big ammonite

 

Your smile on the last pic says it all 

[PFOOLEY]

24 minutes ago, Manticocerasman said:

that's a big ammonite

 

Your smile on the last pic says it all 

Yes, that is a very happy me.... This specimen is the largest I have ever collected of the species...

 

... when I found it. 

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 11/12/2018 at 5:58 PM, Vieira said:

After cleaning:

 

the tooth have +- 5cm

 

Very pretty tooth. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

3 hours ago, PFOOLEY said:

Invertebrate

 

Coilopoceras inflatum

Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Juana Lopez Mbr. of the Mancos Shale

Sandoval County, NM (USA)

 

Discovered: November 9th, 2018

 

Nice beard! 

Well done! 

(the ammonite's quite impressive, too) 

[Max-fossils]

@PFOOLEY wow! that's huge!

[David in Japan]

@PFOOLEYWhat a monster! 

 

[PFOOLEY]

19 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

...the ammonite's quite impressive...

18 hours ago, Max-fossils said:

...wow! that's huge!

7 hours ago, David in Japan said:

...What a monster! 

 

It really is!...I got lucky. These beasts erode from large concretions in a few horizons of the Juana Lopez and by nature usually end up in hundreds of calcite chunks. I have recovered a few nice inner whorls, but this?, this is amazing!

 

[DeepTimeIsotopes]

Invertebrate

This massive beast was found November 3rd, 2018. Thought to be a blind, parasitic trilobite, its name is Itagnostus interstrictus. 

 

This trilobite is from the Wheeler Shale in the House Range, Utah and was alive during the Middle Cambrian. While this was found in North America it can be found in many locations across the world. This makes this species an important biostratigraphic tool for correlating the same rock age across the globe. Measuring in at a gigantic 8.5mm, this is almost double the average size of a Itagnostus interstrictus. 

I aquired this while splitting shale near the U-Dig quarry in the House Range. The trip report can be found here. This is the biggest I have found in the several trips to this area. While Itagnostus interstrictus are frequently overshadowed by the world famous Elrathia kingii, this is their time to shine and who better to lead it than this behemoth.

[DeepTimeIsotopes]

[KimTexan]

On 11/14/2018 at 10:15 AM, PFOOLEY said:

Invertebrate

Coilopoceras inflatum

Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Juana Lopez Mbr. of the Mancos Shale

Sandoval County, NM (USA)

 

Discovered: November 9th, 2018

Wonder why they call it inflatum.  LOL

 

That is an awesome and exciting find! And indeed one fat ammo. So happy for you. Your excitement is written all over your face. Love the selfie pic. Can’t imagine how heavy it was to carry out. Hope you didn’t have to hike too far out.

What are the measurements on it?

 

We have an echinoid urchin species here called obesis. It is just about as fat as it is wide and long. Gotta love those descriptive names.

[PaleozoicParty]

On 11/12/2018 at 11:56 AM, Vieira said:

One entry for vertebrates:

Isurus sp.

1 november 2018

Miocene - Burdigalian (16-23 ma)

Sesimbra - Portugal 

In situ:

Nice tooth! Is this in rock or soil?

[PaleozoicParty]

On 11/15/2018 at 8:39 PM, UtahFossilHunter said:

Invertebrate

This massive beast was found November 3rd, 2018. Thought to be a blind, parasitic trilobite, its name is Itagnostus interstrictus. 

 

This trilobite is from the Wheeler Shale in the House Range, Utah and was alive during the Middle Cambrian. While this was found in North America it can be found in many locations across the world. This makes this species an important biostratigraphic tool for correlating the same rock age across the globe. Measuring in at a gigantic 8.5mm, this is almost double the average size of a Itagnostus interstrictus. 

I aquired this while splitting shale near the U-Dig quarry in the House Range. The trip report can be found here. This is the biggest I have found in the several trips to this area. While Itagnostus interstrictus are frequently overshadowed by the world famous Elrathia kingii, this is their time to shine and who better to lead it than this behemoth.

I loved finding these little things when I was at U-Dig! I didn't know what these were called until now.