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You found it looking like that?!  Wow,  it's gorgeous! :wub:

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On 11/20/2019 at 12:50 PM, PFOOLEY said:

Invertebrate

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Prionocyclus hyatti

Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Carlile Shale

New Mexico, USA

Discovered: November 9th

Field photos:

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I hope you grabbed the other piece to the right of it. It kind of looks like maybe it popped off of it. Very nice!!

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On 11/20/2019 at 12:50 PM, PFOOLEY said:

Invertebrate

 

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Prionocyclus hyatti

Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Carlile Shale

New Mexico, USA

Discovered: November 9th

 

Field photos:

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Wow, a pleasure for the eyes.

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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On 11/14/2019 at 2:21 PM, FranzBernhard said:

"Fossil golf ball?"

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I love that sponge.

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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On 11/16/2019 at 9:12 PM, Al Tahan said:

I’m going to give my Rhinocaris columbina a go in IFOTM. I found this on November 2nd 2019. Phyllocarids are not too common and usually you find a piece or part. This is lucky because of the beautiful association of both carapaces and the telson! Disarticulated but associated....very exciting find for me.

Date of discovery: 11/02/19

Name: Rhinocaris columbina

Geologic Formation: Windom shale member, Moscow formation, Hamilton group. Middle Devonian (givetian) 

Location: Madison county, New York 

 

 

4 photos...this was tough to photograph for some reason. It just doesn’t pop well. Had to play with the lighting in my house. 
 

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photos with the scale

 

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And photos to show the details!

 

Thanks,

Al

Amazing Al.

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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On 11/14/2019 at 11:21 AM, FranzBernhard said:

Found: 11/03/2019

Name: Chaetetid sponge

Formation/Age: St. Bartholomä-formation, Gosau-group, Eastern Alps (Campanian)

Locality: St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria (East of Kalchberg, Point 25-North)

Interesting find, Franz. I was not aware that chaetetids lasted beyond the Paleozoic until I looked them up on Wikipedia. I assume my local Cretaceous deposits were not tropical enough, as I have not found any here, though I do have a small solitary coral. (Apparently Chaetetids are polyphyletic so the Mesozoic and recent ones may not be the same as the Paleozoic ones.) I hope you find more at that spot.

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Date of Discovery: 11/18/2019

Scientific/common Name:  Carcharodon carcharias-Great White

Geologic Age:  Beach Find Likely Pliocene/Late Miocene

State Province Found: North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

 

I found this Great White during our annual four week vacation at NMB, SC. Every year their are different fossils from different periods on the beach because of frequent beach renewal by pumping sediment from miles offshore. We have found Squalicorax Cretaceous shark teeth, always find some GW (9), Mako and bull etc teeth (14). One year we found fossil and modern blister pearls in a Giant Cockle and in a fossil Mercenaria. We have found Cretaceous ammonite pieces and a small whole one and sea urchins and sand dollars. Mammoth and mastodon teeth pieces and now a possible baby mastodon molar per H. Pristis. Horse teeth and a baby's ankle bone. Even sting ray teeth and barbs. And always what the "natives" call turtle heads-actually internal casts of a large clam. This was the day after a extremely windy coastal storm. I had walked the beach for an hour and a half and nothing! Then I took a step and looking down this very shiny white thing was in a puddle of water left by the tide. It turned out to be a real "pearl".

 

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Date of Discovery: November 26, 2019

Scientific and/or Common Name: Spirifer sp? Brachiopod with internal lophophore preservation 

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Mississippian in age

State, Province, or Region Found: Henry County, Missouri- USA

I know I share a lot of shells on here, but I just had to throw this one up. It's the second example I've found, and they are just amazing in my opinion. Finds like this make me happier than finding real gold!

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Date of Discovery July 20th, 2019

Date of Preparation November 24th, 2019

Scientific and/or Common Name Xystridura templetonensis

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation Arthur Creek fm, middle Cambrian/Templetonian

State, Province, or Region Found Australia, Northern Territory

 

Photos of Find

 

1.1 - Before and After Prep

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1.2 - X. templetonensis

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1.3 - X. templetonensis

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1.4 - X. templetonensis

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Fossil Measurements

Total Length = 61mm
Cephalon Length = 22mm
Cephalon Width = 39mm

Length, cephalon:length, total = 0.37
Length, cephalon = 10 segments of thorax
Total width (max):total length = 0.63

 

Notes

This was my first experience of preparing a fossil. The fossil was found on my first and only trip to the location marked below. It's a 400km drive from Alice Springs, with over half of the drive on corrugated dirt roads, quite remote! My best finds from the site, including this one, where from a location of natural erosion into the fossil bed. Most other finds of X. templetonensis I have read about come from the Beetle Creek fm in Queensland, which was the opposite coast of the seaway covering the Georgina Basin during the middle Cambrian.

 

Xystridura templetonensis Description

Templetonian and Ordian Xystridurid Trilobites of Australia, Page 43, Xystridura (X.) Templetonensis (Chapman, 1929) - https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/92/Bull_121.pdf

 

Fossil Location

2.1 - Red dot marks location

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2.2 - Zoom of the previous location. Light blue region is the Arthur Creek Formation. Orange dot marks where I discovered the fossil.

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Anyone interested to explore this online map themselves can do so with the below link:

http://www.geoscience.gov.au/geoscience-portal

 

To add the data overlay:

> top menu, 'Add Data'

> expand Geological Maps

> expand Geological units (lithostratigraphy)

> click 'Add data to map'

 

Note: Under 'Map Layers' you can change the opacity of the layer.

 

Geological 250k Map of the area:

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Date of Discovery  -    27/11/2019

Scientific and/or Common Name - Small Fish jaw with teeth, unknown species.

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation - Jet rock or Alum shale? ( Don't know the geology sorry guys)

Whitby, North Yorkshire Coast, England.

 

 

 

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10 hours ago, JesseKoz said:

Scientific and/or Common Name Xystridura templetonensis

Thanks for the submission this month and the wonderful accompanying information. The FOTM contest lets us see a spectacular diversity of finds that our members make each month and it is a great bonus when we get some nice background to educate us on the entries.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

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3 hours ago, LiamL said:

Date of Discovery  -    27/11/2019

Scientific and/or Common Name - Small Fish jaw with teeth, unknown species.

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation - Jet rock or Alum shale? ( Don't know the geology sorry guys)

Whitby, North Yorkshire Coast, England.

 

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What is the size of this?  And did you extract it or is it still at the location?

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16 minutes ago, caldigger said:

What is the size of this?  And did you extract it or is it still at the location?

It's a small one, and yep i saved it from the destructive waves.

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I wanted to submit this fossil before it was too late. I was excited when I found it and proud that I spotted it because it was so tiny.

This tooth was found at home while working on conglomerate material from the lance formation. 

Date of Discovery: 11/10/2019

Scientific/common Name:  cf. Cimolodon sp. (multituberculate mammal).

Geologic Age:  Late Cretaceous- Maastrichtian (~66 mya).

Formation: Lance fm.

State Found: Wyoming, USA.

Size: approximately 3 millimeters.

Sorry for the low quality pictures, I had to take them through a microscope with an Iphone 6 camera.

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Wow, that's the smallest Mastodon tooth I've ever seen! :P

You must have eagle eyes to spot that. It really puts it in perspective next to that giant penny.

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1 hour ago, caldigger said:

Wow, that's the smallest Mastodon tooth I've ever seen! :P

You must have eagle eyes to spot that. It really puts it in perspective next to that giant penny.

Thanks! I still can't believe I noticed it.

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Here is a very large blastoid, Orophocrinus saltensis, that I found in the Mississippian Escabrosa Formation near Superior, Arizona. It is silicified and 31mm across. Maximum reported size is 32 mm. It was mostly etched out of limestone with acid. Except as molds, blastoids are very rare in Arizona. This is the finest one that I have ever seen from Arizona. 

 

In the same locality I found cups and thecas of 3 or 4 different species of crinoids and other smaller blastoids. This spot is probably a once in a 20 year find for me. 

 

Found Nov. 26, 2019

Orophocrinus saltensis

Escabrosa Formation

Mississippian

Superior, Arizona

 

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