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Member of the Month - December 2023 - Andúril Flame of the West!

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With the Holidays fast approaching, and a New Year just around the corner, we pay respect to those Members of the Month who have preceded this month's winner, and, ... take this opportunity to crown this month's winner as well.   Sorry for the delayed announcement. I have been under the weather for a bit here. (Better late, than never! )

 

By staff consensus, this month's MotM is:

 

 

 

:yay-smiley-1::yay-smiley-1::yay-smiley-1::yay-smiley-1::yay-smiley-1: Andúril Flame of the West :yay-smiley-1::yay-smiley-1::yay-smiley-1::yay-smiley-1::yay-smiley-1:

 

 

Although he has only been with us for a little more than a year, Andúril has been a regular contributor, with varied knowledge about a wide array of fossils.  He is always helpful and informative.

 

Thanks Andúril, Flame of the West for your participation and contributions to the Forum. They are appreciated. Congratulations on this honor.

 

Please tell us about your journey to the Forum and fossils!

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Congratulations and may your flame always burn bright!

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I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie.

 

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Congratulations!  :raindance:

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My favorite things about fossil hunting: getting out of my own head, getting into nature and, if I’m lucky, finding some cool souvenirs.

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Congratulations! 

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Mark.

 

Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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Woohoo! Congrats! :yay-smiley-1:

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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)

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Hi,

 

Congrats !

 

Coco

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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...

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What a pleasant surprise! Thank you for this great honor!

 

Reflecting on my interests in paleontology it is hard to say exactly when I contracted the bug - I've had it for as long as I can remember. As a kid I was never too far away from a dinosaur book, but even then I was far more interested in the strange creatures of the Triassic and the Paleozoic. Something about the obscurity of these creatures in the public eye made them all the more appealing. I always dreamed of having the opportunity of finding fossils - as I am sure many of you could relate to, my childhood dream was to pursue paleontology - and I still vividly recall the day that I found my first fossil. It was on a vacation to a lake in Texas, not even one that is known for fossils as far as I am aware, and by pure serendipity I stumbled upon a piece of limestone with a humble impression of a bivalve. It was no dinosaur bone but, boy, did it ever ignite the passion!

 

Eventually the passion subsided some as I pursued other interests, but about a year ago my passion was once again reignited when I stumbled upon a tiny, worn shark tooth on a beach. Since then I have sought out fossils in the Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia areas. Quite early in my research I came across The Fossil Forum, and like many others my first post a request for help in finding fossil localities (with the limited experience I have obtained on the difficulty of finding fossil localities, I must admit that wasn't my proudest moment :s_confused:). Even so, forum members such as @val horn and @ScottBlooded shared their best advice - exemplifying the generosity of the forum community that I would come to know so well - hoping to aid me in my quest for finding fossils. As others have mentioned, I could not begin to speak on how much knowledge I have gathered simply from reading through the posts on this forum. What success I have had in fossil hunting has in large part been fueled by support and aid from members of the forum. With some of the more basic fossils under my belt (though I do not profess to have the greatest examples), I hope to have success in some of the more obscure Mesozoic formations of the area - the Passaic Formation in the Culpeper Basin of Maryland and Virginia and the Severn Formation of Maryland. I am excited to see what the 2024 season brings, and perhaps I will have the opportunity to extend my relations with some local forum members out to the field!

 

Thank you again for according me this great honor and a chance to share my fossil hunting story!

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It is good to have you here.  Thanks for your contributions to TFF.   Jack

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Congrats on the honor. And thanks for your great contributions to the forum.

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behind the trailer, my desert
Them red clay piles are heaven on earth
I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt

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