December 2016 Vertebrate Find Of The Month

[JohnJ]

What a great way to end 2016!  Congratulations and well done, everyone!  Now, clear your heads and decide our December winner. 

 

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

 

1.  Helodus affinis shark tooth - Upper Carboniferous Pennine Middle Coal Measures formation - West Yorkshire, UK

 

2.  Partial Chiroptera (bat) dentary - Late Pleistocene - Florida, U.S.A.

 

3.  Lizard (Dactyloidae?) autotomous caudal vertebra - Late Pleistocene - Florida, U.S.A.

 

4.  Carcharocles megalodon shark tooth - Pliocene Yorktown Formation - NC, U.S.A.

 

5.  Carcharocles chubutensis shark tooth - Miocene - Portugal

 

6.  Cretodus crassidens shark tooth - Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Formation - TX, U.S.A.

 

7.  Crocodylomorph tooth - Middle Cenomanian (Cretaceous) - Ourém, Portugal

 

8.  Megalonyx jeffersonii giant ground sloth claw core - Pleistocene - FL, U.S.A.

 

9.  Omithothoraces (species unknown but assume enantiornithine) associated bird bones - Cretaceous Toolebuc Formation -Queensland, Australia

 

10  Dromadaeosauridae indet. theropod dinosaur tooth - Upper Cretaceous Black Creek Group (Campanian) - NC, U.S.A.

 

11.  Mosasaur tooth - Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Pee Dee Formation - NC, U.S.A.

 

 

 

 

 

[Doctor Mud]

What a tough month!

 

Many rare and spectacular finds. Sending 2016 off with a bang.

[FossilDudeCO]

WHEW!

This is a tough one, glad I didn't find anything!

Good luck to all! These are all fantastic finds I would be proud to add to my collection!

[ynot]

This contest seems to get harder every month!
Glad to see so many great finds coming to the TFF members!
Tony

[-Andy-]

The NC theropod tooth gets my vote.

 

What a little beauty, and so rare too!

[JohnJ]

Fine fossils found here.....and HERE.

[Fossildude19]

What a tough month!

Good luck to all the entrants. 

Also - if you haven't voted yet, ... please do. 
Time is running out.