Ash Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Wow! Just WOW to all of it!Kevin i love the mixed species. I love all the fish! I love the pleistocene finds!I love it all!!! Nice people!!! "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinopaleus Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 (edited) I would like to submit a Caudal Vertebra from the Hadrosaur: Edmontosaurus annectens Hell Creek Formation, Harding County, South Dakota The Vertebra is 13" (33cm) tall and 6 1/2" (17cm) across the lateral spine. The specimen was found in June and picked up from the Prep person on my return from September's collecting trip. The preparation included cleaning, crack fill and reattachment of the spine which was in two pieces, no restoration. The fist two images are in-situ ones of the vertebra. The spine pieces were removed during extraction of the centrum. I will submit my partial skull as I am not sure that it will display any better once prepped and it will take quite some time getting it out from the limestone matrix so this is as found. For scale the measurement of the underside of the jaw is 570mm Platypteryguis australis - partial skull Toolebuc formation - Albian - Cretaceous Richmond district Queensland Australia Found 21-9-15 I will add an entry I suppose. This specimen is a Hadrosaur tooth found at my new site in North Mississippi in the shallow water marine Demopolis formation. These teeth are not rare in certain parts of this country, but in the Southeast United States, dinosaur material is an extremely rare find. Northeast Mississippi Lower Demopolis Formation Late Campaignian of the Late Cretaceous Period Found in early September of 2015 DSC00234.JPG DSC00235.JPG Boy it's getting hot in here... truly eye candies for a dinosaur collector like me! Amazing stuff Edited September 29, 2015 by Sinopaleus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njfossilhunter Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 All are just wonderful finds.....Its going to be hard to pick the winner for this month.. ...Maybe we should have 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners..it would only be fair.... TonyThe Brooks Are Like A Box Of Chocolates,,,, You Never Know What You'll Find. I Told You I Don't Have Alzheimer's.....I Have Sometimers. Some Times I Remember And Some Times I Forget.... I Mostly Forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted September 29, 2015 Author Share Posted September 29, 2015 All are just wonderful finds.....Its going to be hard to pick the winner for this month.. ...Maybe we should have 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners..it would only be fair.... Trust me...they know who they are. It's a good month. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 I wasn't going to add anything to this months contest but what the heck. I found this large enrolled Eldredgeops in a block of hard limestone in late August here in New York and had it prepped on September 15. I do my own prep, for the most part, but this trilobite had a very hard piece of matrix stuck to its cephalon. It is 100% pyritized and very heavy for its size. You can see some of its original color pattern when you look at it close up. I was asked by the guy who did the prep for me if I wanted the exo blasted off so it would be gold but I like it as it is, for now. Thanks, Mikey Pre prep pics Post prep Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 (edited) To answer the question that john asked about criteria for voting, Mine are --condition of specimen, quality of preservation, rarity of species, displayability and eye candy appeal. Tony PS It is going to be a hard choice as to which ones I will vote for this month! Edited September 30, 2015 by ynot Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 My submission for this month's contest is a partial Anole jawbone with teeth. It was found on September 26th, 2015 in matrix from a spoil island in the Indian River, Florida near Merritt Island. This Pleistocene matrix is considered to be from the 'Melbourne Bone Bed'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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