Mikrogeophagus Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 On 7/24/2023 at 2:40 PM, Collector9658 said: • Date of Discovery: July 19, 2023 • Scientific and/or Common Name: Ptyctodus toothplate • Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Devonian • State, Province, or Region Found: Jefferson County, Missouri Haha I was so confused. Kept reading it as "Ptychodus". Never heard of Ptyctodus before. Very cool find! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debivort Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 One of the two most exciting finds from my first Hell Creek collecting. Date of Discovery: 07/02/2023 Scientific and/or Common Name: Tyrannosauridae. Possibly Tyrannosaurus rex juvenlile or Nanotyrannus Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian, Hell Creek Formation State, Province, or Region Found: South Dakota, USA Size: 32mm max length How it appeared at first Overburden removed Prepped 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debivort Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Second of the two most exciting finds from my first Hell Creek collecting. For most of its extraction, we thought it was an Edmontosaurus chevron bone. In the end, it turned out to be a (probably) Thescelosaurus fibula. As such, it had some scientific value and I was therefore unable to keep it. Date of Discovery: 07/02/2023 Scientific and/or Common Name: Ornithischia. Likely Thescelosaurus Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian, Hell Creek Formation State, Province, or Region Found: South Dakota, USA Size: 310mm long How we saw it as a broken chevron bone for quite a while: What it turned out to be, a complete fibula: 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Adding another Starfish to the lineup! My first "complete" starfish! Yes, I know it's not complete, missing a couple of arms, but all I've ever found before were ossicles and single bits and pieces of one of these Lower Cretaceous Starfish, so I am over the moon and in the stars! • Date of Discovery - July 24 2023 • Scientific and/or Common Name - Unknown Starfish • Geologic Age or Geologic Formation - Cretaceous Upper Glen Rose Formation • State, Province, or Region Found - Texas Size - 3mm 7 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Sensenig Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 This find is pretty exciting because at this location (where I and a few others have been doing research), there are claims of trilobites, but we never found them... However, what we did find were some gastropods that haven't really been described at this location! • Date of Discovery: 07/13/2023 • Scientific and/or Common Name: Unknown Gastropods • Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Lower to Middle Ordovician, The Cow Head Group • State, Province, or Region Found: Western Newfoundland, Canada 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared C Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 4 hours ago, Dawson Sensenig said: This find is pretty exciting because at this location (where I and a few others have been doing research), there are claims of trilobites, but we never found them... However, what we did find were some gastropods that haven't really been described at this location! • Date of Discovery: 07/13/2023 • Scientific and/or Common Name: Unknown Gastropods • Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Lower to Middle Ordovician, The Cow Head Group • State, Province, or Region Found: Western Newfoundland, Canada You should use your other entry opportunity to also throw in some of your Ediacaran finds this month - very rare that we get to see those here on the forum 2 “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDiggs Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 What a month of competition! I'll throw my hat (or fossil rather) into the ring as well as this is my first (mostly) complete claw core and I'm just mildly obsessed with it. • 7/24/2023 • Ground Sloth Claw Core • Pleistocene, Beaumont Fm. • Texas, Fort Bend County 1 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted July 30, 2023 Author Share Posted July 30, 2023 1 hour ago, CDiggs said: I'm just mildly obsessed with it As well you should. Couple of days left to get your entries in--what else have you all got this month? Cheers. -Ken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Sensenig Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 As @Jared C has requested, here is an Ediacaran fossil that I found with a group of friends during my field camp! This specific species is only found in Newfoundland and these guys are some of the first multicellular, complex biologic life we see in the fossil record, so I was very excited by this find! • Date of Discovery: 07/20/2023 • Scientific and/or Common Name: Fractofusus Misrai • Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Ediacaran Period, 560-575 mya • State, Province, or Region Found: Eastern Newfoundland, Canada 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patelinho7 Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 I’ve been meaning to throw this in just for fun. Since starting college, I rarely get to find things myself, but I have mitigated that by working through micro-matrix for the very first time! My very first dinosaur-aged tooth to call my own, as well as my very first micro find! Date of Discovery: 07/11/2023 Scientific and/or Common Name: Lepisosteidae - Gar Tooth Geologic Age or Formation: Late Maastrichtian, Hell Creek Fm. State, Province, or Region Found: Montana, USA Size: ~6 mm (one of the reasons I’m submitting this so late after finding it is because I wanted to see if I could find a better way to take photos. I couldn’t find a way in time, unfortunately, apologies for the slight blurriness) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fin Lover Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 (edited) Might as well throw this in, since I may not ever find another one here, and maybe it will get some more views (leading to an ID or more information about it). Not sure that I even have enough confirmed info at this time, since finding information on it has proven difficult and I am out of days in July. Date of Discovery: 7/27/23 Scientific and/or Common Name: Unidentified sand dollar Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Found ex-situ with multiple formations present, but it seems that the Ashley Formation (early Oligocene) and the Goose Creek Limestone (early to mid Pliocene but contains unreworked Miocene-Pliocene fossils) can contain echinoids, so they are the likely suspects. State, Province, or Region Found: Ladson-Summerville area, South Carolina Photos of Find: Looked prettier when wet : Size: 26 mm Update: the sand dollar is too worn to confirm a genus. Adam Osborn believes it looks most like a Protoscutella, but there should not be any Eocene exposures in that area. So, I have to find more in better shape (and hopefully in-situ!). The hope is that it is Oligocene or younger. Per Adam, "if this creature is Oligocene or younger, it is potentially new (it would be a new documentation in the region for sure, and potentially, if not documented from the Caribbean region, etc., it could be a new species". So, time to go hunting again! Edited August 1, 2023 by Fin Lover Added update 6 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...
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