September 2023 - Finds of the Month Entries

[Fossildude19]

REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below.

Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! 

If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me (or any staff) a PM.

Failure to follow the format will result in your entry being disqualified!

Please pay special attention to Rule #5: 

Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT  found during the Month of the Contest.

In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds.

Entries will be taken until 11:59:00 PM EDT on SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Any fossil submitted after that time, even if the topic is still open, will be deemed ineligible! 

 

Only entries posted with CLEAR photos and that meet the other guidelines will be placed into the Poll. 

Photos of the winning specimens may be posted to TFF's Facebook page.

 

Please let us know if you have any questions, and thanks for sharing more of your fossils and research this month.

 

Shortly after the end of the Month, separate Polls will be created for the Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month.

 

In addition to the fun of a contest, we also want to learn more about the fossils. 

Tell us more about your fossil, and why you think it is worthy of the honor. 

To view the Winning Fossils from past contests visit the Find Of The Month Winner's Gallery.

 

Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry!
Best of success to all, and good hunting!

 

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Rules for The Fossil Forum's Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month Contests

1. Find a great Vertebrate Fossil or Invertebrate/Plant Fossil! Only fossils found personally by you are allowed. NO PURCHASED FOSSILS.
2. Post your entry in the Find of the Month topic. Use a separate post for each entry. (Only two entries per member per contest category.)
3. Your fossil must have been found during the Month of the Contest, or Significant Preparation * of your fossil must have been completed during the Month of the Contest.
4. You must include the Date of Discovery (when found in the contest month); or the Date of Preparation Completion and Date of Discovery (if not found in the contest month).
5. Before and After Preparation photos must be submitted for prepped specimens not found during the Month of the Contest. Please make sure you arrange for photos if someone else is preparing your fossil find and completes the prep requirements in the contest month.
6. You must include the Common and/or Scientific Name.
7. You must include the Geologic Age or Geologic Formation where the fossil was found.
8. You must include the State, Province, or region where the fossil was found.
9. You must include CLEAR, cropped, well-lit images (maximum 4 images). If you are proud enough of your fossil to submit it for FOTM, spend some time to take good photos to show off your fossil.
10. Play fair and honest. No bought fossils. No false claims.

 

* Significant Preparation = Substantial work to reveal and/or repair important diagnostic features, resulting in a dramatic change in the look of the fossil. The qualification of Significant Preparation is decided at the discretion of staff. Any doubts as to the eligibility of the entry will be discussed directly with the entrant.

 

******* Please use the following format for the required information: *******

• Date of Discovery  (month, day, year) 

• Scientific and/or Common Name

• Geologic Age or Geologic Formation

• State, Province, or Region Found

• Photos of Find

 

***Entries NOT posted in the requested format are subject to elimination from the contest.***

(Please limit to 4 clear, cropped, and well-lit images.)

(If prepped, before and after photos are required, please.)

[musicnfossils]

I’ll throw something in this month. 
 

Hadrosaurid Tooth Battery 

Discovered Sept 4 2023 

Late Cretaceous 

Dinosaur Park formation 

Newell County, Alberta CA 

 

 

[Collector9658]

I have another tooth to share this month. This specimen doesn't have the best preservation, but I throughly enjoy the coloration and final result.

Date of Discovery: August 6, 2023; Preparation started and finished September 14, 2023

• Scientific and/or Common Name: Peripristis semicircularis tooth

• Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Bond Formation, Pennsylvanian

• State, Province, or Region Found: LaSalle County, Illinois, USA

 

[patelinho7]

10 hours ago, Collector9658 said:

 Such pretty colors on that tooth!

[izak_]

Partial wombat skull 

Date of discovery: August 30, 2023

Preparation: Started September 1, 2023 and ended September 8, 2023

Scientific and/or common name: Bare-nosed wombat (Vombatus ursinus) 

Geologic age or geologic formation: Pleistocene (unnamed formation) 

State, province or region found: Coolah, NSW, Australia 

 

Before preparation:

 

 

After preparation:

 

[LiamL]

• Date of Discovery  (month, day, year)   19/09/2023

• Scientific and/or Common Name -   Ichthyosaur Teeth

• Geologic Age or Geologic Formation -  Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic, Falciferum Biozone

• State, Province, or Region Found  - Whitby, Yorkshire

 

 

As found

 

 

 

 

 

 

After Prep

 

 

 

 

Edited September 23, 2023 by LiamL

[trilobites_are_awesome]

 Wow. those icthyasaur Teeth are amazing!

[ziggycardon]

Seeing the nices fossils posted here I know I don't stand a chance, but I am too proud at this one to not post it here

 

• Date of Discovery: 05/09/2023

• Scientific and/or Common Name: Sea urchin, perhaps Tylocidaris clavigera

• Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Cretaceous, Turonian, 93 - 90 mya

• State, Province, or Region Found: Beach find, Dieppe, Normandy, France

 

No prep needed on this one, found it lying like this between the other flint pebbles.
Very rare to see them with spines as well, which I why I wanted to try my luck with this beauty!

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

Let me also enter a fossil I'm rather proud of how it came out!

 

Date of Discovery September 24th, 2023

Date of Preparation September 25th, 2023

Scientific and/or Common Name Neithea regularis

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation Laumont Horizon, Nekum Chalk, Maastrichtian, Cretaceous

State, Province, or Region Found Province de Liège, Belgium

Photos of Find

 

 

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

And another one! Nothing overly spectacular, but still my first vertebra from the chalk deposits of the Low Countries, and one of only a handful of vertebrate finds I've made so far...

 

Date of Discovery September 24th, 2023

Date of Preparation September 26th, 2023

Scientific and/or Common Name Enchodus sp.

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation Nekum Chalk, Maastrichtian, Cretaceous

State, Province, or Region Found Province de Liège, Belgium

Photos of Find

 

 

[FossilDAWG]

Quite the month so far!   to all.

Don

[DatFossilBoy]

Date of discovery: 28/08/2022

Preparation: Start 09/09/2023, end 12/09/2023. 

Scientific name: Properisphinctes bernensis 

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Oxfordian

State, Province, or Region Found: Col de la Plaine Morte, Valais, Switzerland

 

Before and after photos:

Edited September 29, 2023 by DatFossilBoy

[DatFossilBoy]

[Vae70]

Squeaking in with a late entry!

 

Partial Muskrat Skull

Discovered Sept 29 2023 

Early to Mid Miocene 

Calvert formation 

Calvert County, MD

 

In Situ

 

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