August 2022 - Finds of the Month Entries

[Notidanodon]

5 hours ago, Jared C said:

please add them! The point of the contest I think isn't necessarily to see "who will win", but rather to see all the awesome fossils found each month proudly showcased - with a friendly competition as the cherry on top 

Don’t you worry I will  I absolutely love that pliosaur tooth by the way, it’s a killer!

[Notidanodon]

Here we go yaverland was fairly barren on my visit this year as a group of uni students had supposedly swept through recently! Apparently they were excavating something so well done them for finding something big  due to higher than usual sand levels, I’d say around half a meter higher than last time, the gravel bars on the beach were all but gone but in one of the stragglers I found this beauty, now for all its fame, due to the small size of the exposure, actual dinosaur teeth are fairly hard to find at yaverland, especially in summer, so I was thrilled with this find. 

 

 

• Date of Discovery :  August , 19 2022
. Name : Iguanodon bernissartensis Boulenger, in Beneden, 1881

• Geologic Age : barremian, Wealden clays wessex fm

•yaverland, Isle of Wight, Uk 

Edited August 29, 2022 by will stevenson

[Notidanodon]

Now I’m not a huge plant collector but I saw this and I have only seen one another so couldn’t resist picking it up 

 

it is a rare pine cone

 

• Date of Discovery :  August , 19 2022
. Name :Bennetticarpus

• Geologic Age : barremian, Wealden clays wessex fm

•yaverland, Isle of Wight, Uk

Edited August 29, 2022 by will stevenson

[Meganeura]

So may as well throw in my 2 submissions despite the fierce competition. To start off, my incredibly rare Pachyarmatherium osteoderm I found:

 

Date of discovery: August 21th 2022

Scientific name: Pachyarmatherium leiseyi

Geologic age or geologic formation: Pleistocene, Peace River Formation

State, province, or region found: Florida

 

[Jackito]

Date of discovery: August 9, 2022

Scientific name:  Pseudomegachasma 

Geologic age or geologic formation: Eagle Ford formation, late cenomanian

State, province, or region found: Texas

 

I found two pseudomegachasma teeth this month. The photos are of the better quality tooth. 

 

I'm impressed with the entries this month, and thank you for your consideration!

[Mikrogeophagus]

@JackitoThat pseudomegachasma is pretty cool. It looks like it's in between a typical lamniform shark tooth and an oral tooth of a saw shark. Kinda changes the way I look at shark teeth. Nice find!

[fossilhunter21]

Date of Discovery  (8/11/22) 

• Scientific and/or Common Name: Merycoidodon culbertsoni?/Oreodont skull

• Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: White River Formation

• State, Province, or Region Found: Crawford, NE, USA 

 

As found:

 

After Prep:

 

This oreodont skull was the first skull I found when I went fossil hunting this month. It may not be in amazing shape, but it is still pretty cool to me. I know I said I would not prep it for along time... But I had some good advice given to me, and decided to try prepping it. There are a couple things that could have done a little better, but it turned out much better than any of my fossils ever have! I would have prepped it more if it were not so sticky and fragile, and if I was more experienced.  But it still looks a little nicer.

 

Thank you to everyone who has helped me get this far with prepping and fossils!

 

BTW I am going to plaster jacket the bottom half of the specimen, as the rock is so soft that I sm worried it might fall apart. Plus I think it might look kind of cool, at least much better looking than crumbling matrix. 

 

[digit]

Consolidating the whole thing with B-72 in a solvent would probably help a lot with the crumbly matrix but I also like the idea of having it look like it came from the field in a plaster jacket (even if it is added as a final step in the presentation).

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[fossilhunter21]

Thank you for your response, @digit! I tried paraloid, but I guess it was just out in the weather too long, and there are cracks everywhere. It was actually naturally almost all pedastaled, and I think that kind of made it worse. h 

The paraloid does help, but it does not help quite enough. 

 

Thanks, 

 

-Micah

Edited August 31, 2022 by fossilhunter21

[digit]

36 minutes ago, fossilhunter21 said:

I tried paraloid, but I guess it was just out in the weather too long,

Is that some form of paraloid you are spraying in the image above? If so, squirting on a solution of B-72 in acetone would likely have penetrated deeper and consolidated a bit better.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[fossilhunter21]

Actually, I am spraying just normal glue onto it in that photo... I know, I am an awfull person.  

 

  I forgot to bring my Paraloid B-72 with, so I bought a spray on glue that dissolves in acetone. I have removed that glue and applied some Paraloid B-72 on it. 

 

Thanks,

 

-Micah

[digit]

You do what you can in the field and make do.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken