digit Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 The winner of the March 2023 VFOTM goes to... Mammuthus columbi, Columbian Mammoth, lower left molar - Undifferentiated Pleistocene Sands - Hardee County, Florida Congratulations to @Meganeura !!! 6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Cole Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Congratulations on a phenomenal find, and I'm sure one that's on many of our bucket lists! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Thank you! Definitely was incredibly happy to be able to cross this one off my bucket list - I would’ve been happy with just half the tooth, really - so finding the 2 chunks right nearby each other (and the third chunk from the other lower…) is just still so incredible to me! 1 2 Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webmasterj Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Wow that is a monster and really fortunate to find both halves like that. Great find! 1 1 Dark Water Megs www.DarkWaterMegs.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fin Lover Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Congratulations @Meganeura! 1 Fin Lover My favorite things about fossil hunting: getting out of my own head, getting into nature and, if I’m lucky, finding some cool souvenirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fin Lover Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 (edited) @digit, either I am really confused this morning, or the title has the wrong month in it. Maybe the fact that @Meganeura won two months in a row complicated things. Edited April 10, 2023 by Fin Lover Added on 3 Fin Lover My favorite things about fossil hunting: getting out of my own head, getting into nature and, if I’m lucky, finding some cool souvenirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted April 10, 2023 Author Share Posted April 10, 2023 Months are insignificant if you are working on a geologic time scale. Lazy cut-and-paste error missing the change to update the month. All better now. If Daniel keeps pulling interesting fossils out of the creeks/rivers in Florida I'm just going to have to write a script to automate the contest winners for the rest of the year. Cheers. -Ken 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 3 minutes ago, digit said: Months are insignificant if you are working on a geologic time scale. Lazy cut-and-paste error missing the change to update the month. All better now. If Daniel keeps pulling interesting fossils out of the creeks/rivers in Florida I'm just going to have to write a script to automate the contest winners for the rest of the year. Cheers. -Ken Hehehehehehehehe. Nothing worthy yet this month… but it’s only just beginning! Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Congrats, nice find 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Nice loaf of bread, Daniel. Congratulations! 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilhunter21 Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Congratulations on an awesome find, Daniel! Cheers and Shalom, -Micah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cngodles Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Beautiful tooth, and I want one. Your tooth could have crunched up and destroyed mine. 1 Fossils of Parks Township - Research | Catalog | How-to Make High-Contrast Photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 What an awesome find! Congrats on the win. 1 "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Wow, that thing is enormous! Big enough to chew up other fossils and spit them out. I can't even imaging what it would be like to find something like that! Congratulations!! Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 1 minute ago, FossilDAWG said: Wow, that thing is enormous! Big enough to chew up other fossils and spit them out. I can't even imaging what it would be like to find something like that! Congratulations!! Don I was screaming, actually! Thank you! Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Bones Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Congratulations Daniel !! Awesome ! 1 ' Keep calm and carry on fossiling ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpa Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Wow, what a beauty! Congratulations! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Congrats for this big tooth ! Coco 1 ---------------------- 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...
Mike from North Queensland Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Congratulations nice specimen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Congratulation, Daniel! That is a dream for many of us! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 Nice win, Daniel. What a beauty. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 On 4/10/2023 at 2:20 PM, Meganeura said: I was screaming, actually! Thank you! I would have been screaming too! Congrats Daniel. What a find! 1 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...
garyc Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 Beautiful!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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