Winner of the September 2019 Invertebrate/Plant Fossil Of The Month

[Max-fossils]

A very cool and beautiful find! Congrats!

[Wrangellian]

Thanks Tony and Max!

[old bones]

I am very late to this as I was out of range for a while, but I congratulate you on the beautiful fossil and the win!

[Wrangellian]

Thanks, bones! Cheers.

[nala]

Congratulations Eric!great find!

[Wrangellian]

Thanks Gery! It is one of the best I've found up there, though it still annoys me that I could not recover the turret. I know it was there somewhere, and I tried to find it, but failed... again.

I wonder if it's a female, being bigger than this one I found in that same area a while back:

(this one obviously came without a turret)

 

[Al Tahan]

I somehow missed this awesome win!! That is a killer ammonite!! Love those goofy shaped ones....makes you really wonder what the evolutionary advantage may have been 

[JohnJ]

From one heteromorph winner to another, congratulations Eric! 

 

 

[doushantuo]

Amazing find,congrats

[Fossildude19]

Great fossil, Eric!

Congratulations on the win!

[Wrangellian]

And they're still rolling in!

Thanks again, everyone... My first-ever FOTM entry was a trilobite the previous month, but it didn't win. You can't go wrong with a good heteromorph.

I know, they are weird - you'd think such a delicate shell as this would be a liability, compared to the more compact or streamlined planispiral types, but there it is.

[fifbrindacier]

Great ammonite @Wrangellian !

[Wrangellian]

Thanks Fifi, I knew it had to be a good one knowing how infrequently I find them this complete.  

[Nimravis]

Congrats Eric- very pretty 

[Wrangellian]

12 hours ago, Nimravis said:

Congrats Eric- very pretty 

Thanks Ralph.. the forms are amazing, but often not so well preserved (and it's never perfect). I often wonder how much better my stuff would look if I got them prepped...

[Nimravis]

2 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

Thanks Ralph.. the forms are amazing, but often not so well preserved (and it's never perfect). I often wonder how much better my stuff would look if I got them prepped...

I wonder that too, I have stuff put away that should be prepped but probably never will get done. You could bid on the Christmas auction that is offering a prep job 

[Wrangellian]

If only I could afford it... There are other fossils that would have priority if I could, though.