June 2023 Invertebrate / Plant Fossil Of The Month Poll

[digit]

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

 

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

 

1. Cunnolites elliptica (= Cyclolites ellipticus) pathological solitary coral - Cretaceous (Turonian) - near Le Bugue, Dordogne department, France 

 

2. Helicaulax pyrenaicus gastropod - Cretaceous, Upper Santonian - Southwest France

 

3. Ecphora gardnerae gastropod - Miocene - Calvert County, Maryland

 

4. Gastrolith with tabulate coral inclusion - Late Jurassic, Morrison Formation - Utah

 

5. Stiphrothyris tumida brachiopods -  Middle Jurassic, Bajocian, Salperton Limestone - Gilbert’s grave railway cutting, Cheltenham, UK

 

6. Pseudophyllites indra ammonite - Upper Cretaceous, Matanuska Frm, Member 3 - Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska

 

7. Trachyscaphites spiniger heteromorph ammonite - Cretaceous, Campanian, Ozan Formation - North Sulphur River, NE Texas

[fossilhunter21]

These are all very nice fossils! It was tough to make a decision! 

 

Cheers and Shalom,

 

-Micah

[marguy]

On 7/1/2023 at 2:35 AM, digit said:

pathological echinoid

typo?  it is a coral!

[digit]

57 minutes ago, marguy said:

typo?  it is a coral!

Nope. A misidentification. Corrected now.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[RJB]

That was a tuff one.  Had to go back and forth with scrolling up and down to try and figure out my favorite. 

 

RB