JohnJ Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 June collecting promises to heat up in northern latitudes and the hunt continues for ancient perfection, rarity, and beauty. Show us your best finds and share what you know about them! The objective is to have fun. So carefully read the rules below, and go make some great finds! Entries will be taken through June 30th. Please let us know if you have any questions, and thanks for sharing more of your fossils and research this month. To view the Winning Fossils from past contests visit the Find Of The Month Winner's Gallery. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Rules for The Fossil Forum's Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month Contests 1. You find a great Vertebrate Fossil or Invertebrate/Plant Fossil! Only fossils found by you. 2. Post your entry in the Find of the Month topic. Use a separate post for each entry. 3. Your Fossil must have been found during the Month of the Contest, or the significant Preparation of your Fossil must have been completed during the Month of the Contest. 4. You must include the Date of your Discovery or the Date of Preparation Completion. 5. You must include the common or scientific name. 6. You must include the Geologic Age or Geologic Formation where the Fossil was found. 7. Play fair. No bought fossils. Shortly after the end of the Month, separate Polls will be created for the Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month. The maximum entries allowed by the Polling software will be selected for each contest by the staff. In addition to the fun of a contest, we also want to learn more about the Fossils. So, only entries posted with a CLEAR photo and that meet the other guidelines will be placed into the Poll. Within a few days, we will know the two winning Finds of the Month! Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry! The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Here is the latest find from 6-5-11 from the Oligocene forest of Oregon. A lovely split pair leaf that just so happens to have approximately twenty insect eggs (leaf galls) in full 3D relief on each aspect of the leaf. This is the first example of fossil insect eggs that I have discovered and they are remarkably detailed and preserved as a nice bonus. This is a fascinating tale of a 31 Mya insect-plant symbiotic relationship. The galls are the result of a hormone trigger causing plant tissue build-up in response to insect or mite feeding or as the direct result of egg laying on or within the plant tissues. The plants are not harmed in the process and the intruding insects are delighted with free room and board plus maternity ward. Perhaps this great fossil will have a chance at winning the June FOTM as a rare insect-plant association fossil. At least invertebrate and plant are covered with this entry! Halesia oregona w/leaf galls~insect larvae (ID~Thanks Chas!) Oligocene - Little Butte Volcanic Series Lane County - West-Central Oregon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsofnj Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 (edited) Dolphin skull Schizodelphis morckhoviensis Identified by Dr. Stephen Godfrey, Curator of Paleontology Calvert Marine Museum Found April 30, 2011 Preparation completed June 5, 2011 Calvert County, Maryland Calvert formation Miocene This is my first entry in VFOTM. Found at the end of a very long day, this dolphin skull was transported out in three blocks of marl by me and two friends. The skull is still attached to the matrix and I left some sections off for display purposes. Left – the large bone where the lower jaw would connect and part of the upper jaw are pictured in the foreground. These were left off so some of the internal details would be visible. Various stages of preparation Interesting what one can do with a dental pick and a boatload of time I documented and posted the preparation process as I went along; http://www.fossilsofnj.com/index_files/dolphin.htm Edited June 25, 2011 by fossilsofnj It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. - Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xonenine Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 stunning John!, more fossil art, cant wait to read the rest and look at these pics some "Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile." Lepidus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pierre le bouscatier Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 petrified wood, permian from the south est france sorry: Discovered in February 2010, to saw and polished this month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilForKids Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 (edited) Here's my entry. A pair of 2 inch long PRYTIZED Asaphiscus wheeleri From the Wheeler Shale in Millard County Utah approximately 500 million years old. Found 6-10-11 Edited June 14, 2011 by FossilForKids If only my teeth are so prized a million years from now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Sharks Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Here's my entry. A pair of 2 inch long PRYTIZED Asaphiscus wheeleri From the Wheeler Shale in Millard County Utah approximately 430 million years old. Found 6-10-11 Nice critters, but the Wheeler Shale is Cambrian, and just over 500 million yrs old There's no limit to what you can accomplish when you're supposed to be doing something else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilForKids Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Nice critters, but the Wheeler Shale is Cambrian, and just over 500 million yrs old Thanks. I've been told several ages to include 400-500 million. I'll change it. John If only my teeth are so prized a million years from now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMNH Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 This plate has multiple trilobite trackways from the ichnospecies Cruziana. The largest trackway is about 5 mm in width. I discovered this fossil at the Mimico Creek on June 16. It is from the Georgian Bay Formation, which is Ordovician in age (450 mya). Trace fossils are always cool because they tell a story about the animals they were made by, and I've never found one like this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axelorox Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 That dolphin skull is pretty amazing. I don't think I've even seen one in any of the natural history museums I've been to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordovician_Odyssey Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 This plate has multiple trilobite trackways from the ichnospecies Cruziana. The largest trackway is about 5 mm in width. I discovered this fossil at the Mimico Creek on June 16. It is from the Georgian Bay Formation, which is Ordovician in age (450 mya). Trace fossils are always cool because they tell a story about the animals they were made by, and I've never found one like this before. Amazing Peice!!!! :D -Shamus The Ordovician enthusiast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritageFossils Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Lots of fun stuff, love the dolphin skull! -YvW Next fossil auction: June 6th, 2010 - Beverly Hills, CA http://historical.ha.com/NaturalHistory/ Check out our auctions and past auctions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLB Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 I always loved flipper ! that's One nice fossil!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 (edited) I don't quite know how to fit this one in, since it contains not only invertebrates (the belemnites), but also a bone from a vertebrate. Maybe the majority rules or does it fit into both contests? I'll leave it up to the moderation to decide. This is a piece of the so-called "Belemniten-Schlachtfeld" or Belemnite Battlefield to be found in the upper Toarcian of Bavaria. Found on the 5th of June and prepared last week. It contains a bone, probably from an Ichthyosaurus, which I can't exactly identify (waiting for an answer from a specialist)and a heap of Belemnites some of which are not easy to ID since they're just bits and bytes. The long one in the middle is probably Salpingoteuthis trisulcata and the one on the upper left Dactylioteuthis irregularis. Some of the little ones may belong to the genus Rabdobelus sp. and others may also belong to Acrocoelites sp., but I'm really not sure about that. Edited June 20, 2011 by Ludwigia Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Dolphin skull Found April 30, 2011 Preparation completed June 5, 2011 Calvert County, Maryland Calvert formation Miocene This is my first entry in VFOTM. Found at the end of a very long day, this dolphin skull was transported out in three blocks of marl by me and two friends. The skull is still attached to the matrix and I left some sections off for display purposes. Left – the large bone where the lower jaw would connect and part of the upper jaw are pictured in the foreground. These were left off so some of the internal details would be visible. Various stages of preparation Interesting what one can do with a dental pick and a boatload of time I documented and posted the preparation process as I went along; http://www.fossilsof...les/dolphin.htm Fossilsofnj, did you send a pic of this to Dr. Godfrey at the Calvert Marine Museum? He might be interested in seeing the specimen, or help ID it. Also, Dave Bohaska at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History could help as well. Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmorefossil Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Dolphin skull Found April 30, 2011 Preparation completed June 5, 2011 Calvert County, Maryland Calvert formation Miocene This is my first entry in VFOTM. Found at the end of a very long day, this dolphin skull was transported out in three blocks of marl by me and two friends. The skull is still attached to the matrix and I left some sections off for display purposes. Left – the large bone where the lower jaw would connect and part of the upper jaw are pictured in the foreground. These were left off so some of the internal details would be visible. Various stages of preparation Interesting what one can do with a dental pick and a boatload of time I documented and posted the preparation process as I went along; http://www.fossilsofnj.com/index_files/dolphin.htm Awesome work once again and thank you for allowing me to help you out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsofnj Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 (edited) Awesome work once again and thank you for allowing me to help you out Steve, I can’t express my thanks enough for all your advice during the preparation. This was a first for me and all your guidance and reassurance really paid off. I truly can’t imagine how this would have turned out without your help. Thanks again. I also can’t forget Bob (justbob) and Sue (haddy) for jumping in and helping with the extraction, packing and transporting of the critter back to the car. That walk back to the car just seemed to take forever. Thanks again to all, John Edited June 20, 2011 by fossilsofnj It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. - Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsofnj Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Fossilsofnj, did you send a pic of this to Dr. Godfrey at the Calvert Marine Museum? He might be interested in seeing the specimen, or help ID it. Also, Dave Bohaska at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History could help as well. Daryl. Daryl, Thanks, I’ll shoot some pics off to them and post any additional info I receive. John It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. - Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Daryl, Thanks, I'll shoot some pics off to them and post any additional info I receive. John John, I think your dolphin skull scared off any potential VFOTM contenders! It really is an awesome specimen. I found a few nice shark teeth this month, but they could'nt even tie that dolphin's shoes, so I'll keep them to myself. Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmorefossil Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 John, I think your dolphin skull scared off any potential VFOTM contenders! It really is an awesome specimen. I found a few nice shark teeth this month, but they could'nt even tie that dolphin's shoes, so I'll keep them to myself. Daryl. your right they dont have thumbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave pom Allen Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 I said i wasn`t going to do this again but i just cant help myself found on 15/06/2011. In "heaven" Tangahoe formation, Mio-Plio, New zealand. unidentified marine bird skull. havnt finished prep yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whowat13 Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Here is a pathological Bull shark tooth I found on the 5th of June in the Peace River. It measures 0.735 inches on the slant. I would guess that it is from the Pleistocene era, but am not 100% certain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshunter Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 (edited) I would like to enter my Oligocene Clypeaster rogersi echinoid found on June 20th of 2011 and prepped the same day of finding. It is from the Sawannee Limestone Formation of Florida. Thanks--Tom Edited June 24, 2011 by Foshunter Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!"Don't Tread On Me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchtrilobite Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Here is my find for this month : A rare Guichenia dufouri with good hypostoma with a rolled Phacopidina micheli on the same plate. Found on the 3rd June and finished to be prepared the 4th June 2011. Dariwillian (Ordovician) South of Rennes (FRANCE) measurements : 2.76x1.46 inches and 0.59x0.51 inch (=7,0x3,7cm et 1,5x1,3cm) My new website : http://www.trilobite.fr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alopias Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 wouha !!!! very nice Guichenia d , I like this trilobite great find :Thumbs Up: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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