Fossils4U Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I figured I'd give this critter a chance at the IPFTOM this month since I recently dug him out of his concrete grave: http://www.thefossil...r/page__st__580 MB is pretty sure about the ID, so I'll go with what he's said. Chaceon helmstedtense (Bachmayer & Mundlos 1968) Brejning Clay, Velje Fjord Formation, Chatt B, Oligocene PS on the 17th of March. The guys up in Denmark have their doubts on the validity of the above ID and have recommended that I keep it as a simple Coeloma sp. until a revision of these rare large crabs from Limfjord has been done. helmstedtensis has apparently only been positively identified in other parts of northern Europe. Found in August 2011 on the beach at Mogenstrup, Limfjord, Denmark. Finished preparing it on March 9th, 2012 after a long period of deliberation and practice on 2 other concretions beforehand. WOW! That is one of the best fossil crab specimens I have ever sceen. NICE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) Here is a Metaxytherium (perhaps M. medium) tooth found yesterday 03.21.2012 in Maine-et-Loire, France (Miocene - Helvetian). Coco Edit : it could be an Halitherium. "I lead investigation". Edited March 30, 2012 by 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...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 coco's got game this month... Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Hi, Kind Dan ! This month, there are so many beautiful things as I would like to have in my collection! I put my tooth to participate with the other attractive fossils. 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...
Sinopaleus Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Looks like I won't make it this month But golly, aren't these finds beautiful?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossils4U Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 (edited) WOW!!! There are some great finds on hear.... I am new to all of this and I am still trying to figure out how to enter this months contest?? I was out for a hunt just last week on the 16th and to my suprise i stumbled accross this great find and wanted to share it with all of you..... Hope you enjoy. This rear molar is off of a baby MAMMOTH. The tooth was found in a Pliestocene rework of a Miocene deposit Towards the east coast of NC. I wonder what happened?? Very interesting piece! I hope I find the rest. : ) If you like what you see let me know?? I will be showing new finds every week. Edited March 24, 2012 by Fossils4U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boneman007 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 (edited) WOW!!! There are some great finds on hear.... I am new to all of this and I am still trying to figure out how to enter this months contest?? I was out for a hunt just last week on the 16th and to my suprise i stumbled accross this great find and wanted to share it with all of you..... Hope you enjoy. This rear molar is off of a baby MAMMOTH. The tooth was found in a Miocene deposit Towards the east coast of NC. I wonder what happened?? Very interesting piece! I hope I find the rest. : ) If you like what you see let me know?? I will be showing new finds every week. Its a Pliestocene rework of a Miocene deposit. (stream bottom, etc.) A number of years ago myself and some friends were hunting a upper cretaceous deposit. It was very sandy with a lot of round rocks. I speculated that it was a pliestocene rework of a cretaceous deposit. (The cretaceous shark teeth were whitened somewhat) After a few months of hunting the site, lo and behold, In the construction truck tire path, lay a baby mammoth tooth. The argument about it being a reworked zone ended there! Edited March 23, 2012 by Boneman007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtdauber Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 My entry this month isn't very showy, but is a rarely found shark chondrocranium (braincase). Collected -- March 8, 2012 Common name -- shark chondrocranium Geology -- Ripley Formation, Selma Group, Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian Location -- Lowndes County, Alabama, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDOTB Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Wow the competition is definitely pretty good this month, great finds everyone! I'll get something in there this week... DO, or do not. There is no try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossils4U Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Its a Pliestocene rework of a Miocene deposit. (stream bottom, etc.) A number of years ago myself and some friends were hunting a upper cretaceous deposit. It was very sandy with a lot of round rocks. I speculated that it was a pliestocene rework of a cretaceous deposit. (The cretaceous shark teeth were whitened somewhat) After a few months of hunting the site, lo and behold, In the construction truck tire path, lay a baby mammoth tooth. The argument about it being a reworked zone ended there! Thank you for your help.... I bet that find had you baffled! The teeth sound to have been put through a serious oxidation to have become white! ( Burned by the sun ).. Or the fossils might have ended up in some yellowish white clay and fossilized that way by minneral absorption!? Well when you are digging you do have to go through the layers!!. I have not had that much luck in the cretaceous/ Eocene depposits I have been too. I would love to see it.. Mammoth teeth are such a scarce find... What other specemens did you collect from the site? Species? Any horse teeth, Mako's, Bison? Any other fossils from that time period? Nice to meet you! Thank you for the story. HAPPY HUNTING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossils4U Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Wow! A SCARCE find indeed... NICE! A lot of competition this month, but here is my entry. Squalodon Oligocene South Carolina Found 3/18/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMNH Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Wow so many finds this month!!! :greenwnvy: It's gonna be really tough to choose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Today I went collecting at one of Oregon's Oligocene floras. This south-central locality is off the beaten track and not frequently visited by many fossil hunters. The ratio of complete specimens is dismally low but I managed to find a few nice plants to make the trip a success. As luck would have it the very last find was also the find of the day and spotted it moments before departing. It made up for mostly fragmentary finds and ironically just sitting there and almost tripped over it. Sweet reward as this matrix is dense and cherty requiring quite a pounding to split open. Although the competition is tough this month, it will be nice to have a plant in the mix among all of the exciting entries. The leaf still has the petiole attached and sits on a chunk of matrix over an inch thick. The color pattern looks like an abstract painting Leaf - indeterminate genus / species Oligocene - Little Butte Volcanic Series Lane County - South-Central, Oregon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 WOW!!! There are some great finds on hear.... I am new to all of this and I am still trying to figure out how to enter this months contest?? I was out for a hunt just last week on the 16th and to my suprise i stumbled accross this great find and wanted to share it with all of you..... Hope you enjoy. This rear molar is off of a baby MAMMOTH. The tooth was found in a Pliestocene rework of a Miocene deposit Towards the east coast of NC. I wonder what happened?? Very interesting piece! I hope I find the rest. : ) If you like what you see let me know?? I will be showing new finds every week. Is that a metric scale? If so that's a 2" tooth! Of course I've seen inches divided into 10ths but I wanted to make sure. You did say it's from a baby but most of us will never see one in person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chele Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I would like to enter my T Rex shed tooth . It was found March 25th. It was found in the Hell Creek Formation from the late Cretaceous period. I found it outside of Jordan Montana. Chelebele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 This month is off the hook! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I have no words :o This month's fossils are gorgeous Congrats everyone! Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossils4U Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 THANK YOU! It is in inches..The tooth is right at a little over 4" long and only 2" wide. Is that a metric scale? If so that's a 2" tooth! Of course I've seen inches divided into 10ths but I wanted to make sure. You did say it's from a baby but most of us will never see one in person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkbyte Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I would like to enter my T Rex shed tooth . It was found March 25th. It was found in the Hell Creek Formation from the late Cretaceous period. I found it outside of Jordan Montana. Congratulations Chele, That is a wicked awesome tooth and I am glad that you found it. I hope that you find the Skeleton that belongs to it. Great finds are in your future. Bobby "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Confucius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boneman007 Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I would like to enter my T Rex shed tooth . It was found March 25th. It was found in the Hell Creek Formation from the late Cretaceous period. I found it outside of Jordan Montana. Is it too late to pull my submission, then go run and hide? Thank god my crab isn't a vertebrate! This is a tooth to die for! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Toooo good this month... way too good! No idea who will win.... :eat popcorn: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thair Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Teeth, Teeth, Teeth!! Well if you can’t beat them…. At least try. Here’s my Shark tooth found Saturday the 17th prepped that night through the 18th . Petalodus Ohioensis Pennsylvanian Harpersville Formation That is the best quality Petalodus I have seen. Great find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpaleo Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Pretty nice finds this month, but I thought I'd enter my desmo tooth anyways. Its a nice find for me and it was from the march 24th dig in Bakersfield. Here is my latest find, even if its up against some stiff competition. Desmostylus sp. molar Round Mountain Silt, Miocene Kern County, California Found March 24th, finished prep March 28th Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 This month is ridiculous! Has anyone ever gotten the yips just trying to place a simple vote? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Pretty nice finds this month, but I thought I'd enter my desmo tooth anyways. Its a nice find for me and it was from the march 24th dig in Bakersfield. Here is my latest find, even if its up against some stiff competition. Desmostylus sp. molar Round Mountain Silt, Miocene Kern County, California Found March 24th, finished prep March 28th Joe Isnt that a big tooth for the species? All the Desmostylus molars I have seen were smaller then this guy but then again, I have never had the pleasure of collecting that famous locality. VERY COOL TOOTH! Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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