Cris Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Here's our first contest for 2013! It'll be difficult, but let's see if we can top 2012. Entries will be taken through January 31st. 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whowat13 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I have here one Whale Shark tooth found in some micro-matrix from the Aurora mine in NC (Pungo Formation)... I found this tooth on the second of this month. Here are two views of the tooth. The lines at the left are 1mm apart, and the lines at the bottom are 1/16 of an inch apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 The first entry of 2013 is a whale of a fossil that's tiny! Gonna' be an interesting year... "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Vertebrate of the Month: A yet to be determined/described toothed pterosaur jaw from the Sciponoceras gracile zone of the Britton formation, early turnonian of the cretaceous. This was found on 1/8. After reading just how rare pterosaur material is, I got a much better appreciation for this pterosaur jaw - amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgrilusHunter Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Vertebrate of the Month: A yet to be determined/described toothed pterosaur jaw from the Sciponoceras gracile zone of the Britton formation, early turnonian of the cretaceous. This was found on 1/8. Oh man ... if this is any indication, it's gonna be one heck of a year! Super cool find! "They ... savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things." -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I found this rare bug back in July (2012) in NY and it was prepped in January (2013) by my preparator Gerry Kloc of Rochester. I found the trilobite in cross section and some of the exo was missing but it was still worth the prep. Thanks, Mikey Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 (edited) Found on January 2nd Palaeoanacorax sp Lower Chalk Cretaceous Bedfordshire, England Edited January 18, 2013 by Kosmoceras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 And for the invert comp, the fossil worm I prepared recently. Link Proliserpula ampullacea Found on January 2nd Lower Chalk 95-98.5 myo Bedfordshire, England Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 What time period is this from? Gorgeous tooth! Also, I love that worm tube. One of the best I've ever seen! Very sorry, forgot that, just added it in now, it is Cretaceous. Thank you for the nice words. Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I guess I will throw my hat into the ring also this month. Found on 11 January 2013, in the Martin Marietta Quarry in Belgrade(Maysville) NC. In Miocene overlying layers , Trent Marl, Belgrade Formation. A Beautiful Blue/White marbled Great White tooth. Carcharodon carcharias. An amazing display tooth. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hamilton Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Isistius triangulus found January 14, 2013 Lee Creek Miocene to Pliocene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Here's my vertebrate contribution. I don't know, though... a pterosaur jaw is gonna be a tough one to beat. I was sorting though some stuff the other night and found this little crocodilian vertebra. It is Eocene from the Wasatch Fm of southwest Wyoming. I collected it oin June of 2008, said the ziplock it was in along with dozens of other little vertebrate microfossils and a few snails. And I had totally forgotten about this one. It was like Christmas. I really like it because it is bluish. The preservation is not great, but it is blue. I spent a less than a half hour sandblasting it and now it is done. Side view and top down view: (For those who have been paying attention lately, this is from the same site from which I have posted other blue bones). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt cable Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I'll toss my hat in the ring. I found this crinoid last May and finished it yesterday (1/19/2013). There wasn't much exposed when I found it. Just a few arms heading the same direction and the cross section showed the calyx was there. The first picture is after I glued everything together. It is a Clarkeocrinus troosti found in the Windom shale (Devonian) of New York. I love this site. There is a beautiful waterfall just upstream. I can't wait to go back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshunter Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) Would like to enter this Ptychodus mortoni shark tooth found January 3rd in the Cretaceous Santonian Blossom Sand Formation of Texas. Edited January 22, 2013 by Foshunter Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!"Don't Tread On Me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crinoid Queen Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I'll toss my hat in the ring. I found this crinoid last May and finished it yesterday (1/19/2013). There wasn't much exposed when I found it. Just a few arms heading the same direction and the cross section showed the calyx was there. The first picture is after I glued everything together. It is a Clarkeocrinus troosti found in the Windom shale (Devonian) of New York. I love this site. There is a beautiful waterfall just upstream. I can't wait to go back. Very nice! I wanna come so bad still! The waterfall looks like the one up the side creek in Cville Would like to enter this Ptychodus mortoni found January 3rd in the Cretaceous Santonian Blossom Sand Formation of Texas. What is it a tooth? Almost looks like a fungus with the weird texture lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Here's my vertebrate contribution. I don't know, though... a pterosaur jaw is gonna be a tough one to beat. I was sorting though some stuff the other night and found this little crocodilian vertebra. It is Eocene from the Wasatch Fm of southwest Wyoming. I collected it oin June of 2008, said the ziplock it was in along with dozens of other little vertebrate microfossils and a few snails. And I had totally forgotten about this one. It was like Christmas. I really like it because it is bluish. The preservation is not great, but it is blue. I spent a less than a half hour sandblasting it and now it is done. (For those who have been paying attention lately, this is from the same site from which I have posted other blue bones). JP, that is the tiniest croc vert I've ever seen. It at least deserves the "tiniest croc vert ever" award. This and the other entries this month are really nice, but as you indicated, that pterosaur jaw is going be tough to compete against. To beat it, someone needs to find another pterosaur jaw, but with teeth in it Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickNC Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) Here is my contribution. American mastodon (Mammut americanum) tooth from the Pleistocene of Eastern North Carolina. Found on Jan. 20 2013. Edited January 21, 2013 by RickNC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeloiVarden Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Would like to enter this Ptychodus mortoni found January 3rd in the Cretaceous Santonian Blossom Sand Formation of Texas. Yep, best example I have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evannorton Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I'd like to enter this beauty into the invertebrate of the month... This is a fore wing of an early Dictyopteran (Paleozoic). It was collected on Saturday January 19th in a Braidwood location of Mazon Creek. This is the first insect I have ever found at Mazon Creek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 Wow, what a month already! Excellent finds, guys. Keep them coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshunter Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Would like to enter this ammonite skeleton (lol) as this is so different and so out of the norm.from what the usual ammonite finds are. It is Calycoceras sp. from the upper Cretaceous, Eagle Ford Group of East Texas. The different chambers are calcite, some covered with minerals from the surrounding soil, found January 4th----Tom Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!"Don't Tread On Me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Very cool Mastodon tooth Rick! I would love to find one here in NY someday in fact it's been a dream I had since I was young boy. Your specimen is extra nice in that it looks to be complete with roots. Good fer you! Mikey Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickNC Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Very cool Mastodon tooth Rick! I would love to find one here in NY someday in fact it's been a dream I had since I was young boy. Your specimen is extra nice in that it looks to be complete with roots. Good fer you! Mikey Thanks. It is in the Hunting Trips forum as well with additional pictures. I actually broke the roots with the shovel somewhat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDOTB Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Very cool Mastodon tooth Rick! I would love to find one here in NY someday in fact it's been a dream I had since I was young boy. Your specimen is extra nice in that it looks to be complete with roots. Good fer you! Mikey MikeyMig, Have you ever seen the mastodon skull they found at letchworth state park and have on display at the museum with the artifacts collection? If not, you should check it out! Mike DOTB DO, or do not. There is no try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDOTB Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Here is my contribution. American mastodon (Mammut americanum) tooth from the Pleistocene of Eastern North Carolina. Found on Jan. 20 2013. Yeah, pretty sure its a fake. LOL. Just kidding. Sorry Rick, its an awesome find, I'm just going to continue picking on you for finding that. Have you scheduled a surgical appointment yet, that horseshoe has to be getting uncomfortable! Ha ha. DO, or do not. There is no try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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