May 2021 Invertebrate/Plant Fossil Of The Month Poll

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Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries.

 

The poll ends June 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE

 

1. Echinocaris punctata phyllocarid (dual valves) - Middle Devonian, Moscow Formation, Hamilton Group - Deep Springs Road Quarry, Lebanon, New York

 

2. Mecaster lusitanicus echinoid - Tentúgal Fm, Cenomanian (C level) - Montemor-o-Velho, Coimbra, Portugal

 

3. Pedioceras sp, ammonite - Early Cretaceous, Paja Formation - Villa de Leyva, Colombia

 

4. Ringed nematodes - Pennsylvanian, Stark Shale Member - Kansas City, Missouri

 

5. Concavus concavus barnacle - Pliocene (Zanclean) - Rafina-Pikermi, Attika, Greece

 

6. Vaccinites sp. rudist -  Late Cretaceous, Lower Afling-Formation, Gosau-Group - Roemaskogel-30, Kainach bei Voitsberg, Styria, Austria

 

7. Presently unidentified insect (possibly Horntail Wasp or Sawfly) - mid-Upper Miocene, Beluga Formation -  Cook Inlet, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

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8. Spiriferid brachiopod - Mississipian - Indiana

 

9. Tumidocarcinus giganteus crab - mid-Miocene - Canterbury, New Zealand

 

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I don't mean to be crabby, but is there a before prepping piccie of the crabby? 

[Fossildude19]

57 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I don't mean to be crabby, but is there a before prepping piccie of the crabby? 

 

Adam, 

It's this one:

    

 

 

 

See the post in the Finds of the Month topic.

 

 

[FossilDAWG]

51 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I don't mean to be crabby, but is there a before prepping piccie of the crabby? 

There was confusion about this earlier.  The FOTM candidate crab is inside the big concretion in the first photo.  Unfortunately a "normal-sized" crab of the same species was used for scale.  The crab on top of the concretion in the first photo is not the specimen that was entered into the contest.

 

Don

[JimB88]

you can go on youtube to watch him prep it! 

[Sjfriend]

An update on the insect I entered. I now can semi officially say it has no name. The paleo entomologist that has been looking at it says it may not only be a new species of Horntail wasp but a new genus. Nice! I'll post more later in the general forum. 

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Great to hear when new taxa to science are discovered. Keep us in the loop on this one when there is new information to share.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken