2018 Invertebrate / Plant Fossil Of The Year Poll!

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Here we are with our 2018 IPFOTY contest entries. These are all 12 of our IPFOTM 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 Invertebrate / Plant Fossil Of The Year!

 

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

 

1. Flexicalymene cf. F. senaria trilobite - Ordovician Galena Formation, Prosser Member - Fillmore Co., Minnesota, USA

 

2. Isotelus sp. trilobite - Middle Ordovician Carters Limestone/Lower Hermitage Formation - Eastern Middle Tennessee, USA

 

3. Gennaeocrinus crinoid with Platyceras gastropod - Middle Devonian, Moscow formation - Livingston County, New York, USA

 

4. Euproops xiphosuran - Asturian (Westphalian D), Late Carboniferous - Piesberg quarry, near Osnabrück, Germany

 

5. Isotelus iowensis trilobite - Ordovician - Fayette County, Iowa, USA

 

6. Pleurocystites cf. P. squamosus cystoid - Ordovician - Minnesota, USA

 

7. Fusimilis proxima gastropod shell - Late Cretaceous - Coon Creek Science Center, Adamsville, Tennessee, USA

 

8. Horn Coral growing in a colony of Syringopora sp. coral - Pennsylvanian Naco Limestone - NE Gila County, Arizona, USA

 

9. Favosites placenta (tabulate coral with epibionts) - Mid-Devonian, Hungry Hollow Formation - South Pit, Hungry Hollow, Arkona, Ontario, Canada

 

10. Eldredgeops rana multiple plate - Middle Devonian/Windom Shale, Hamilton Group  - Penn-Dixie Fossil Park, Blasdell, New York, USA

 

11. Harpoceras serpentinum ammonite plate - Lower Jurassic (Lias/Toarcian) - Postbauer-Heng (near Altdorf), Germany

 

12. Eurypterus remipes eurypterid - Fiddlers Green Formation, Phelps Member, Upper Silurian (~410 mya) - Ilion (Herkimer County), New York, USA

 

[Raggedy Man]

Definitely a hard choice...and I still can't believe that Isotelus sp from Tennessee was just laying there. So AMAZING luck! Lol

[ynot]

12 outstanding fossils.

Was a very hard decision to make this time.

Congratulations to all the contestants this year!

 

[Wrangellian]

How about:

[jcbshark]

Not easy by any means, looks like a bunch of winners 

[StormDancer]

Can I pick more than one? This is too hard. 

[The Amateur Paleontologist]

Oh boy this is a hard one... I second @StormDancer's idea of more than one pick

Seriously, they're all excellent finds!

-Christian

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That's why they were all FOTM winners.

 

The monthly (and yearly) contest is more than just a way of doling out a small digital badge to members who have found enviable fossils, it is a grand showcase for the diversity and beauty of fossils that can be (and were) found by our members. I'd be over the moon to have been able to add to my collection any of the slate of entries shown above. There can be but one winner though so I'd suggest running a controlled experiment by imagining discovering each of the entries and voting for the most drool producing.

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[Max-fossils]

Gaah! I can't choose!  

They're all stellar finds, once again congrats to the finders!

[hauyn888]

Wrangellian is on the right way 12 amazing finds and all have their own history, wow  this is a hard decision - why can we choose only one?