December 2016 Finds Of The Month

[DeepTimeIsotopes]

15 hours ago, Cluros said:

How about a Vermont Trilobite from the Upper Ordovician? I found it September 10th (see my report Extreme Fossil Hunting by Canoe) and prepped it today. It is two inches long and if you look at the left side it appears that there is a ventral oriented under it. You can see several pleura and a genial spine protruding on the left side.

Flexicalymene senaria

Upper Ordovician

Crown Point Formation

Grand Isle, Vermont

 

Wow that is one fantastic-looking bug! Well done on the prepping.

[Jeffrey P]

Really nice find and great prep, Andy. Hard to believe that's the same bug. You always seem to find Vermont's best.

[Cluros]

Thanks. It is good to be able to prep again. A bout with cancer kept me away last year. This year I threw my back out. Just starting to feel better so I wanted to attack a bug that I thought had some potential. I have several others I will be working on this week.

[Vieira]

My entry for this month it's a Carcharocles Chubutensis tooth found 23th of December.

Miocene - Portugal.

I put this tooth in this contest by this uncommon colors.

 

 

 

[JarrodB]

Cretodus Crassidens. Found at Post Oak Creek Texas on 12/28/16. Eagle Ford Formation.  

[Guguita2104]

Nice fossils, everyobody !

I see that St.Claus "gave" us lots of fantastic specimens.

So, I will also submit my best December's finds:

 

-Invertebrate

• Mecaster (hemiaster) sp. (infaunal irregular sea urchin)
• Western Portuguese Carbonate Platform (central section)-near Vila Nova de Ourém-UnitC
• Basal upper Cenomanian,Cretaceous
• Found on the 23rd December 2016

 

[Guguita2104]

-Vertebrate (my biggest surprise )

• Crocodylomorph tooth (lagoonal domain)
• Western Portuguese Carbonate Platform (central section)-near Vila Nova de Ourém-UnitB
• Middle Cenomanian,Cretaceous
• Found on the 23rd December 2016
• 

[ricardo]

Very nice one Guguita

 

Good luck!

[thefossilkid]

Here is my entry! A friend took me out fossil hunting for the first time on Monday, (12/26/16) to snorkel for a few hours in a north florida river. No more then 15 minutes after getting in 3' of water, I look down and see this just laying on the bottom! This is my first mammal fossil find EVER! Needless to say I was both shocked and excited beyond belief.

 

Megalonyx jeffersonii giant ground sloth claw core

 

Pleistocene

 

North florida

 

[Uncle Siphuncle]

11 hours ago, thefossilkid said:

Here is my entry! A friend took me out fossil hunting for the first time on Monday, (12/26/16) to snorkel for a few hours in a north florida river. No more then 15 minutes after getting in 3' of water, I look down and see this just laying on the bottom! This is my first mammal fossil find EVER! Needless to say I was both shocked and excited beyond belief.

 

Megalonyx jeffersonii giant ground sloth claw core

 

Pleistocene

 

North florida

 

Jake.  You've made a wonderful find.  Just a friendly note...stick with it and you'll make many great finds, but I hope you can stay motivated by the more common finds in between the great ones.  You are in a great fossiling area.  Allow me to place your wonderful claw find in perspective.  Texas, where I live, has Pleistocene exposures as well.  In 14 years of serious collecting, I've found exactly 3 sloth claws.  So keep yours in a safe place and admire it often, as it is one of life's great personal treasures.  I think FL outperforms TX on average in the Pleistocene Dept, so with diligence, you could very well outpace 3 in 14 years.  Happy hunting!

[Uncle Siphuncle]

On 12/19/2016 at 4:39 PM, -AnThOnY- said:

Loriolia rosana block from the Glen Rose of Texas. Found July 2014, finished prep December 18, 2016. Before and after photos below.

Sharp eyed and persistent, it is no shock to me that Anthony made this find.  I've encountered many echinoid associations in the Great State of Texas over time, but never such an attractive "Mosh Pit" of Loriolia rosana.  One question looms as I stare at this specimen...with so many tests, where are the spines?  Am I correct to assume that they all died at the same time, spines dissociated, then the tests were gently swept into a lag deposit?  I'd like to learn more about this.

[Mike from North Queensland]

The Xmas break has been good and I have found some associated fossils.

I found these in a bag matrix between the 18 to the 29 of December

 

Omithothoraces - species unknown but assume enantiornithine (bird)

Cretaceous - Toolebuc formation

Richmond quarry Queensland Australia

[fifbrindacier]

On 29 décembre 2016 at 9:01 PM, Guguita said:

Nice fossils, everyobody !

I see that St.Claus "gave" us lots of fantastic specimens.

So, I will also submit my best December's finds:

 

-Invertebrate

• Mecaster (hemiaster) sp. (infaunal irregular sea urchin)
• Western Portuguese Carbonate Platform (central section)-near Vila Nova de Ourém-UnitC
• Basal upper Cenomanian,Cretaceous
• Found on the 23rd December 2016

 

 

On 29 décembre 2016 at 9:08 PM, Guguita said:

-Vertebrate (my biggest surprise )

• Crocodylomorph tooth (lagoonal domain)
• Western Portuguese Carbonate Platform (central section)-near Vila Nova de Ourém-UnitB
• Middle Cenomanian,Cretaceous
• Found on the 23rd December 2016
• 

Nice christmas presents for you Guguita.

[Rustdee]

After seeing all of the great FotM entries each month since I have joined the Fossil Forum, I finally have found some things worthy of being in this great contest.

 

Entry 1 - Vertebrate Category

Dromaeosaur indent.

Black Creek Group (Contains Tarheel, Bladen, and Donoho Creek Formations)

Campanian

Bladen County, North Carolina

Found on December 4, 2016

 

This tooth along with a few other hadrosaur teeth that I found on that particular trip are the first definitive dinosaur fossils I have found. Certainly a milestone in my paleontological journey!

 

 

[Rustdee]

Entry 2 - Vertebrate Category

Mosasaur tooth

Pee Dee Formation

Maastrichtian

Pitt County, North Carolina

Found on December 27, 2016