digit Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 The winner of the December 2019 VFOTM goes to... Palorchestes sp. (azael?) marsupial - Pleistocene - Queensland, Australia Congratulations to @Jesuslover340!!! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyc Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Congratulations on an incredible find!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Congratulations on an awesome discovery, Sky. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 congrats on a great find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Yay! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Congrats on the amazing Find and the win! The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Terrific find and something that one doesn't see very often. Congratulations! Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Congrats on the amazing find!!! I knew this fossil had paw-tential when I saw it entered in the contest Please do excuse the terrible dad joke lol Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpa Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 A well-deserved honor; congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Congrats Skylar, that's a awesome find 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...
Ash Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 12 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Terrific find and something that one doesn't see very often. Congratulations! Well, technically no one has ever seen the manus of P. Azael before now Even though it’s part of both our collections i’m still a little jealous (but very happy for her) that she found it instead of me, lol. There’s a bit of friendly competition between us 5 "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMert Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Congrats, this is an outstanding find. I voted for @mamlambo's skull however, its a fossil hunter's dream -to find a compact more or less complete skull on the beach 1 My sites & reports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Bones Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 A Great Find! Congratulations! ' Keep calm and carry on fossiling ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 2 hours ago, Ash said: Well, technically no one has ever seen the manus of P. Azael before now Even though it’s part of both our collections in still a little jealous (but very happy for her) that she found it instead of me, lol. There’s a bit of friendly competition between us The good Mrs. P04 regularly reminds me that for all my fossil prowess, she has still found the largest ammonite in our house. And she stopped collecting with me 18 years ago! 1 Regards, Kris Global Paleo Services, LLC https://globalpaleoservices.com http://instagram.com/globalpaleoservices http://instagram.com/kris.howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesuslover340 Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Thanks everyone! We're both pretty excited about it and what it will contribute to a bigger project we are fleshing out with the appropriate persons 40 minutes ago, Ptychodus04 said: The good Mrs. P04 regularly reminds me that for all my fossil prowess, she has still found the largest ammonite in our house. And she stopped collecting with me 18 years ago! To be fair, Ash had sent me ahead to look first-he usually does when it makes sense to do so and even does so just when an area looks promising It doesn't matter in the end in that we are both equally happy for each other's finds and they go to our shared collection, but we work well as a team, covering different areas to cover more ground or taking turns trailing behind the other to find what the other missed. I usually keep my head down, so I see things closer and more obscurely covered; Ash usually looks ahead so sees the larger, more exposed fossils. So sometimes I am sent ahead when an area looks clear of snakes or when an area looks good for small fossils. Other times an area looks like it may have snakes or the like, so Ash goes ahead because he looks ahead naturally and has a better chance of spotting snakes. He then finds the larger specimens and I sweep behind to make sure nothing smaller was missed. I love that we are a team that works fluidly in this way. But I am digressing-my point is, I will give credit where it is due in that Ash is immensely selfless a lot of the time in allowing me to go first in a lot of circumstances, which allowed me to make this discovery. But, we did it as a team. Unfortunately, fotm isn't designed for awarding couples/teams, only singular persons. But in all honesty, Ash deserves this fotm just as much as I (if not more) for his selflesness in our relationship in making discoveries such as this. 5 "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."-Romans 14:19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossisle Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Team Work,awesome!!! Cephalopods rule!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 OK, so how about that trade now? I believe you mentioned you wanting a couple of crinoid segment pieces for those bones. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Congrats ! Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Paréidolie : [url=https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/144611-pareidolia-explanations-and-examples/#comment-1520032]here[/url] 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...
mamlambo Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Congrats! That is an amazing find!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Amateur Paleontologist Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Congratulations!! 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...
Scylla Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Congratulations! Teamwork pays off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 What a find! Congratulations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleoflor Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Congratulations! Spectacular find. Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Congratulations!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Fantastic find and win... Articulation is difficult... The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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