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Winner of the March 2020 Invertebrate/Plant Fossil Of The Month


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Yay! Congrats, Monica! Like someone said, you had lots of tough competition and it was tough to choose (objectively :whistle: ), but it's not something we see very often, and maybe they appealed to the people who normally go for shark and dino teeth! :o :meganim:   :P

I hope you find some more.

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Congratulations! They were just so perfect and presented on the matrix so well!

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Congrats Monica- great find from one of my favorite members.

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Great find Monica, congrats on the win! :yay-smiley-1:

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Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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A super interesting find!!! Congrats Monica! :yay-smiley-1:

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

 

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8 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

I hope you find some more.

 

Me, too!  I was able to go back to the exact same spot and pull out a few more rocks that contain scolecodonts (they're currently up for auction to benefit the forum), but they were all much smaller than the two that I entered for FOTM - perhaps I was just lucky the first time around, but hopefully there are more big 'uns hiding in the rocks for me to find. :look:

 

As a side note - the location on Mimico Creek that I hunt in periodically has changed.  Last summer I found a beautiful trilobite in the "rock wall", but I doubt I'll be able to do that again because erosional debris from the ground above has piled itself over top of it.  The spot where I found the scolecodonts is lower - just above water level - and in a spot that seems to be a bit more protected from the dirt/rocks eroding out of the ground above, so hopefully I'll be able to get more of these, at least :fingerscrossed:

 

Thanks for the congrats, by the way! :)

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8 hours ago, Randyw said:

Congratulations! They were just so perfect and presented on the matrix so well!

 

Thanks, Randy!  I agree - they look quite nice together, and it's lucky that they happen to be located very close together on the same rock (because the rock that they're on is huge by comparison!).

 

8 hours ago, Nimravis said:

Congrats Monica- great find from one of my favorite members.

 

Thanks, Ralph!  (You know you're one of my favourite members, too :))

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Congrats Monica! It was tough competition this month, which makes your win all the sweeter! 
 

Those little jaws are creepy, weird, and fascinating all at the same time. Very nice!

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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)

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good show,Monica

(to be pronounced in a Colin Firth-/Hugh Grant- like tone of voice)

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Congratulations Monica on a super find and a well deserved win.

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5 hours ago, doushantuo said:

good show,Monica

(to be pronounced in a Colin Firth-/Hugh Grant- like tone of voice)

That's my voice.

If I don't quite look like them. 

Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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people** have said to me "you have Colin Firth's  elbows"

the resemblance goes no further

**mostly myopic ones

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On 4/11/2020 at 3:41 AM, Monica said:

As a side note - the location on Mimico Creek that I hunt in periodically has changed.  Last summer I found a beautiful trilobite in the "rock wall", but I doubt I'll be able to do that again because erosional debris from the ground above has piled itself over top of it.  The spot where I found the scolecodonts is lower - just above water level - and in a spot that seems to be a bit more protected from the dirt/rocks eroding out of the ground above, so hopefully I'll be able to get more of these, at least :fingerscrossed:

Rivers are always changing their surroundings, so maybe it will uncover the same area or other areas someday and new fossils will show themselves - assuming you're the first on the spot when that happens!

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Congratulations 

Neat find!

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Monica - Congratulations on the find and the award.  Building up quite a TFF resume :-)

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Great find. I’d not heard of them before. Very interesting

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