2018 Vertebrate Find Of The Year Poll!

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Here we are with our 2018 VFOTY contest entries. These are all 12 of our VFOTM winners from 2018, listed in the order of the month they won. Carefully review these entries and vote for the one you think deserves the title of 2018 Vertebrate Fossil Of The Year!

 

Poll closes on the 25th of January just before midnight. You can also vote for the 2018 Invertebrate / Plant Fossil Of The Year contest HERE.

 

1. Shrew (Soricidae) left mandible - Melbourne Bone Bed, Late Pleistocene - Indian River spoil pile Merritt Island, Florida, USA

 

2. Saurodon fish jaw - Cretaceous Atco Formation of Austin Group, Cretaceous - Dallas, Texas, USA

 

3. Mammuthus columbi mammoth tusk - Pleistocene - North Sulphur River, North Texas, USA

 

4. Thylacoleo carnifex marsupial lion skull - Pleistocene - Queensland, Australia

 

5. Palaeotherium magnum skull and mandible - Upper Eocene - Southwestern France

 

6. Elonichthys peligerus fish - Middle Pennsylvanian - Wilmington, Illinois, USA

 

7. Cowralepis mclachlani placoderm - Middle Devonian - West of Cowra, NSW, Australia

 

8. Orthacanthus compressus (Shark) - Upper Pennsylvanian, Upper Freeport #7 Coal  - Linton Mine, SE Ohio, USA

 

9. Ichthyosaur remains - Whitby Mudstone Formation (Toarcian, Lower Jurassic) - Yorkshire Coast, Whitby, England

 

10. Tylosaurus proriger mosasaur tooth - Ozan Member of the Taylor Formation, Upper Cretaceous - North Sulphur River,  Texas, USA

 

11. Undetermined (Tyrannosaurus rex orTriceratops horridus) dinosaur rib - Upper Cretaceous (Hell Creek Formation) - Montana, USA

 

12. Canis dirus (Dire Woff) tooth - Pleistocene (unidentified offshore unit) - Beach find near Charleston, South Carolina, USA

 

[Macrophyseter]

@UtahFossilHunter It's here!!

[DeepTimeIsotopes]

1 hour ago, Macrophyseter said:

@UtahFossilHunter It's here!!

Finally, I’ve been waiting a whole year for it.

[Al Tahan]

Wow this is hard!! Amazing 

[jcbshark]

Tough choices, some incredible pieces you folks found 

[Max-fossils]

All such incredible finds, they make me so jealous! 

[hauyn888]

.......can I vote for all? ....they are all amazing and all the fossils deserve to be chosen.....that's a really hard decision ...

[LiamL]

What a great year 2018 was. My first 6 months properly collecting, i cant wait until March and i'll be back out collecting daily.

Hopefully you all are taking advantage of the cold winter months unlike me

[Max-fossils]

On 1/18/2019 at 7:50 PM, LiamL said:

What a great year 2018 was. My first 6 months properly collecting, i cant wait until March and i'll be back out collecting daily.

Hopefully you all are taking advantage of the cold winter months unlike me

I'm mostly stuck inside too this time a year. I went to the Zandmotor a year ago now, and let me tell you I am NOT doing that again... My fingers ached for a full day after the hunt, that's how badly they were frozen!  

March is also when I plan to start going back out. I can't wait!

[The Amateur Paleontologist]

On 18/01/2019 at 7:50 PM, LiamL said:

i'll be back out collecting daily.

Lucky you! Is it because you'll be on holiday?

-Christian

[LiamL]

8 minutes ago, The Amateur Paleontologist said:

Lucky you! Is it because you'll be on holiday?

-Christian

I have a holiday home above the location i collect at, and it reopens on March 1st! I'm itching to collect 

[digit]

9 minutes ago, LiamL said:

I have a holiday home above the location i collect at, and it reopens on March 1st! I'm itching to collect 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken