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March 2016 Vertebrate Find Of The Month


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March 2016 Vertebrate Find Of The Month  

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  1. 1. Cast a vote for your favorite find this month!

    • 1. Dis-articulated fish skull - Jurassic - Holzmaden, Germany.
      1
    • 2. Hemipristis serra shark tooth - Miocene - Portugal
      0
    • 3. Elasmosaur mid-dorsal vertebra - Upper Cretaceous Ozan Formation - Texas, U.S.A,
      4
    • 4. Megalodon shark tooth - Miocene - Maryland, U.S.A,
      2
    • 5. Ichthyosaur vertebral centrum - Jurassic Lias formation - North Yorkshire, U.K.
      1
    • 6. Mosasaur lower jaw elements - Upper Cretaceous Ozan Formation - Texas, U.S.A.
      0
    • 7. Tully Monster - Mid Pennsylvanian - Illinois, U.S.A.
      11
    • 8. Petalorhynchus sp.shark tooth - Mississippian Pennington Formation - Tennessee, U.S.A.
      23
    • 9. Undetermined Plesiosaur vertebra - Jurassic Sundance Formation - Wyoming, U.S.A.
      19
    • 10. Helodus or Orodus tooth plate - Late-Mississippian Big Clifty Formation - Indiana, U.S.A.
      1
    • 11. Partial Probocidean tusk - Pleistocene - Florida, U.S.A.
      26
    • 12. Porpoise tooth - Miocene - Portugal.
      1

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The poll ends April 6th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll HERE.

1. Dis-articulated fish skull - Jurassic - Holzmaden, Germany.

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2. Hemipristis serra shark tooth - Miocene - Portugal

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3. Elasmosaur mid-dorsal vertebra - Upper Cretaceous Ozan Formation - Texas, U.S.A,

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4. Megalodon shark tooth - Miocene - Maryland, U.S.A,

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5. Ichthyosaur vertebral centrum - Jurassic Lias formation - North Yorkshire, U.K.

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6. Mosasaur lower jaw elements - Upper Cretaceous Ozan Formation - Texas, U.S.A.

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7. Tully Monster - Mid Pennsylvanian - Illinois, U.S.A.

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8. Petalorhynchus sp.shark tooth - Mississippian Pennington Formation - Tennessee, U.S.A.

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9. Undetermined Plesiosaur vertebra - Jurassic Sundance Formation - Wyoming, U.S.A.

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10. Helodus or Orodus tooth plate - Late-Mississippian Big Clifty Formation - Indiana, U.S.A.

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11. Partial Probocidean tusk - Pleistocene - Florida, U.S.A.

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12. Porpoise tooth - Miocene - Portugal.

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Ha! I gotta admit, it's weird seeing a Tully Monster in "Vertebrate Fossil of the Month" :P

"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."

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why is the Tully in vert fossil of the month?

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Or it's a tooth biter! Haha

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It's always such amazing fossils in this contest.

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Ha! I gotta admit, it's weird seeing a Tully Monster in "Vertebrate Fossil of the Month" :P

X 2! glad I read the article about this.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

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