Emthegem Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 22 hours ago, kameran said: Oh my God this is incredible! Might as well just take the award at this point haha! - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 27 minutes ago, Emthegem said: Okay will do! Also, I am still in University at the moment in the Engineering-Coop program, so not quite a grad (yet). But so far I LOVE Guelph - super fun, people are awesome there and I reeeeeaaaally like my program!!! BTW the cleanup job on that trilobite is AMAZING! I should clean up the trilobite I found a while back, still gotta learn how though. -Em I'm a Gryphon, too! Well, I'm a former Gryphon, since I was there from 1997-2001. My major was Zoology - very interesting program, but Invertebrate Zoology during 2nd year was killer!!! I loved U of G, too - it's the best Ontarian university in my humble opinion. A few friends and I went back for the Homecoming game last September and College Royal this past March, and I think we're going to try to make it a regular thing. I'm trying to convince my daughter (she'll be 9 in October) that she should go to Guelph, too - my husband went to U of T, though, so we'll see who wins... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 5 hours ago, Emthegem said: Oh my God this is incredible! Might as well just take the award at this point haha! It's pretty, but it has some good competition. Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf89 Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Date of Discovery: 7/14/19 Carcharodon carcharias, Great white shark Neogene, Yorktown formation Green Mills Run, Greenville, NC This is THE best fossil I have ever found. Ths day I found it, we had found nothing worth mentioning so far, I rolled over a massive pipe in the river, and it was laying half out of the water. Out of all or the hours of digging that I, and others have done and posted pictures of, i have never seen anyone find white teeth in GMR. Let alone the size and condition. Size is ~2.8" 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 Way to go, Tyler! That is certainly a top-shelf display case Great White--absolutely beautiful color! It looks like that was just recently washed out of a clay layer or some other matrix where it was protected from turning black like much of the other material from GMR. You obviously didn't find anything else of note that day since your luck was all wrapped up in this trip-making find. Cheers. -Ken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf89 Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 1 hour ago, digit said: Way to go, Tyler! That is certainly a top-shelf display case Great White--absolutely beautiful color! It looks like that was just recently washed out of a clay layer or some other matrix where it was protected from turning black like much of the other material from GMR. You obviously didn't find anything else of note that day since your luck was all wrapped up in this trip-making find. Cheers. -Ken Thank you! You are right about the clay, and it was recently washed out. I did not find anything else noteworthy either. Very lucky to find this tooth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleoflor Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Herewith my entry (with apologies for the poor smartphone image quality): Date of Discovery: Sunday, July 28 Scientific and/or Common Name: unidentified (trigonotarbid?) arachnid Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Late Carboniferous (Westphalian D), Osnabrück Fm. State, Province, or Region Found: Piesberg quarry near Osnabrück, Germany Specimen dimensions: about 20 mm wide (as fossilized). Photographs of specimen illuminated from different angles. Photograph of counterpiece. 16 Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleoflor Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Cannot resist putting in a plant fossil too (again with apologies for the poor smartphone image quality): Date of Discovery: Sunday, July 28 Scientific and/or Common Name: near-complete frond of Mariopteris nervosa. Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Late Carboniferous (Westphalian D), Osnabrück Fm. State, Province, or Region Found: Piesberg quarry near Osnabrück, Germany Specimen dimensions: composite frond about 40 cm wide. Piece, showing the characteristic white illite on dark shale-preservation, typical for fossils from the Piesberg. Counterpiece (remainder of frond collected in smaller fragments, which will possibly be glued on later). 12 Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilus Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 13 minutes ago, paleoflor said: Cannot resist putting in a plant fossil too (again with apologies for the poor smartphone image quality): Date of Discovery: Sunday, July 28 Scientific and/or Common Name: near-complete frond of Mariopteris nervosa. Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Late Carboniferous (Westphalian D), Osnabrück Fm. State, Province, or Region Found: Piesberg quarry near Osnabrück, Germany Specimen dimensions: composite frond about 40 cm wide. and also: Date of Discovery: Sunday, July 28 Scientific and/or Common Name: unidentified (trigonotarbid?) arachnid Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Late Carboniferous (Westphalian D), Osnabrück Fm. State, Province, or Region Found: Piesberg quarry near Osnabrück, Germany Specimen dimensions: about 20 mm wide (as fossilized). Wow!! Those are both incredible! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 On 7/25/2019 at 9:03 AM, kameran said: Found: 5th May 2019 - Prepped by James Carroll 16th July 2019. Name: Ammonite death bed - containing Promicroceras, Asteroceras, Xipheroceras and Cymbites ammonites, alongside the darker areas which are fossilised squid ink. Age: Sinemurian Location: Charmouth, Dorset, England. As found, before prep: OK that is quite fantastic as well! This is going to be one tough month to decide! Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kameran Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 43 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said: OK that is quite fantastic as well! This is going to be one tough month to decide! Don Thank you Don, I agree some lovely fossils have been posted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg.Wood Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Corocrinus calypso Four associated crinoid crowns Date of discovery: September 2018 Prep completed: July 10 - July 29 Geologic age: Erian (Middle Devonian) Geologic formation: Arkona Formation Location found: Arkona, Ontario, Canada Specimen measures 6.5 x 5.0 cm Before prep: Specimen was found in ~10 fragments weathering out of a concretion After prep: 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 This is a serious "dart board" month, they're all great! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf89 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 12 minutes ago, caldigger said: This is a serious "dart board" month, they're all great! Yet all very different! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emthegem Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 7 hours ago, paleoflor said: Cannot resist putting in a plant fossil too (again with apologies for the poor smartphone image quality): Date of Discovery: Sunday, July 28 Scientific and/or Common Name: near-complete frond of Mariopteris nervosa. Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Late Carboniferous (Westphalian D), Osnabrück Fm. State, Province, or Region Found: Piesberg quarry near Osnabrück, Germany Specimen dimensions: composite frond about 40 cm wide. Piece, showing the characteristic white illite on dark shale-preservation, typical for fossils from the Piesberg. Counterpiece (remainder of frond collected in smaller fragments, which will possibly be glued on later). 7 hours ago, paleoflor said: Herewith my entry (with apologies for the poor smartphone image quality): Date of Discovery: Sunday, July 28 Scientific and/or Common Name: unidentified (trigonotarbid?) arachnid Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Late Carboniferous (Westphalian D), Osnabrück Fm. State, Province, or Region Found: Piesberg quarry near Osnabrück, Germany Specimen dimensions: about 20 mm wide (as fossilized). Photographs of specimen illuminated from different angles. Photograph of counterpiece. WOW!! gorgeous specimen! congratulations!!! - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Amateur Paleontologist Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 9 hours ago, Greg.Wood said: Corocrinus calypso Four associated crinoid crowns Such a stunning specimen it made me say a bad word Amazing prepping of a truly beautiful fossil!! 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...
digit Posted July 30, 2019 Author Share Posted July 30, 2019 With one day to go in this month's competition, I'm happy to see that we've had a nice surge in entries. The goal of this contest is to provide a nice gallery each month of drool-worthy items for the membership to ogle over and a place where the proud finders can show off their best finds (or completed preparations) each month. Though we only award one winner (in each category) each month, we enjoy seeing such a great diversity of beautiful (and enviable) fossils each month--even if it makes the voting decision supremely difficult. Cheers. -Ken 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMert Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Some preps are so incredible they eliminate much rarer and sought-after fossils. Maybe we need "Prep of the month" 3rd category? 2 My sites & reports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted July 30, 2019 Author Share Posted July 30, 2019 37 minutes ago, RuMert said: Some preps are so incredible they eliminate much rarer and sought-after fossils. Maybe we need "Prep of the month" 3rd category? Except that we don't always get such a nice diversity of prepped fossils each month. We've resisted suggestions to fragment the two basic categories we have now (vertebrates and invertebrates/plants) since we usually get a limited number of total contributions each month. If we received 100 submissions each month, we'd likely have to create a larger number of categories just to keep the contest manageable. With a limited number of entries, too many categories would result in default winners in categories where items had no competition. Members (or preppers) with a steady supply of items for a particular category would be shoo-in each month. All of the entries entered each month are fossils that their finders are proud of enough to enter them in the competition. This contest provides a wonderful gallery of envious finds both as fossil "eye candy" and also to enlighten the membership in types (or localities) of fossils that they might not have been on their radar before. All of the entries deserve our praise (and frequently we can't help ourselves but to reply directly when we see some great entries) but we can't let this degenerate to the "everybody gets a trophy" level that seems prevalent these days. While only two members get to add a small digital award icon under their avatar image each month, the staff has always hoped that these monthly competitions would not get serious or contentious but instead be a friendly contest where all the members are winners since they are treated to a wondrous gallery of fantastic fossils each month. Maybe one day the number of entries each month with increase to the point where we feel the need to create more categories but for now we're quite happy that we have enough to make the choice maddeningly difficult each month. Cheers. -Ken 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyw Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I always go with the wich one would I like in my collection approach when I vote. im just sad I can’t enter becuase I have to buy my unprepared specimens (of wich I’m always looking for more hint hint) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crann Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Hi guys/gals, this is my entry for fossil of the month, this piece was found 17/06/18 on Father's day on the Jurassic north Yorkshire coast in the UK (around 185 million years old) and was prepared this month. In this nodule are 4 large articulated Ichthyosaur vertebrae with a snout running a long the top, it also has a beautifully preserved rib underneath with paddle bone and neural remains, and to top it off has four Belemnite's in there running under some of the bones, thanks, Alan. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossilis Willis Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Decisions decisions 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankh8147 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Date Of Discovery: 7/14/2019 Name: Reptile Trackways Age: Triassic Formation: Passaic Location: Bucks County, PA I haven't had much luck finding Triassic fossils the past few years despite multiple tries, but to me, this one makes up for all the failed attempts! The slab measure roughly 16 inches long by 8 inches wide and has well over 20 reptile tracks on it (probably closer to 30). I have no idea what all these little guys were doing in that area, but apparently that was the place to be roughly 200 Million years ago! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Great trackways, Frank! Are these considered Gwyneddichnium ? 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...
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