JohnJ Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 The number of quality finds last month was fantastic and May promises to be loaded with more inspiring fossils. So, what did you find? The objective is to have fun. So carefully read the rules below, and go make some great finds! Entries will be taken through May 31st. Please let us know if you have any questions, and thanks for sharing more of your fossils and research this month. To view the Winning Fossils from past contests visit the Find Of The Month Winner's Gallery. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Rules for The Fossil Forum's Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month Contests 1. You find a great Vertebrate Fossil or Invertebrate/Plant Fossil! Only fossils found by you. 2. Post your entry in the Find of the Month topic. Use a separate post for each entry. 3. Your Fossil must have been found during the Month of the Contest, or the significant Preparation of your Fossil must have been completed during the Month of the Contest. 4. You must include the Date of your Discovery or the Date of Preparation Completion. 5. You must include the common or scientific name. 6. You must include the Geologic Age or Geologic Formation where the Fossil was found. 7. Play fair. No bought fossils. Shortly after the end of the Month, separate Polls will be created for the Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month. The maximum entries allowed by the Polling software will be selected for each contest by the staff. In addition to the fun of a contest, we also want to learn more about the Fossils. So, only entries posted with a CLEAR photo and that meet the other guidelines will be placed into the Poll. Within a few days, we will know the two winning Finds of the Month! Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry! The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 (edited) I'll add this... found on 5/4/11 Pulaskicrinus sp. Bangor Limestone Chesterian series Upper Mississippian Cumberland County Tennessee Top of specimen Bottom of specimen profile its complete except for the stem, Ive not done much to prep it as its too fragile. Edited May 9, 2011 by JimB88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aramon Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 I have ended prep my last fossil in April, the 24th... Can I submit it for May or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted May 7, 2011 Author Share Posted May 7, 2011 I have ended prep my last fossil in April, the 24th... Can I submit it for May or not? Aramon, the prep for entries in May should be ended / completed in May... The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aramon Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 For six days... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted May 7, 2011 Author Share Posted May 7, 2011 For six days... :( Rule #3 above: "Your Fossil must have been found during the Month of the Contest, or the significant Preparation of your Fossil must have been completed during the Month of the Contest." The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 Here is my new plant entry for FOTM. It is literally a May Day fossil, split open on May 1st 2011. There are four distinct taxa of flora present. Alnus carpinoides, Castanea basidentata, Platanus condoni and a spiffy sprig of Pinus knowltoni. The slabs each measure 12" x 7" x 2" and are from the Little Butte Volcanic Series of central Oregon dated at 30 Mya. A nice representation of an ancient forest flora floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aramon Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 (edited) Rule #3 above: "Your Fossil must have been found during the Month of the Contest, or the significant Preparation of your Fossil must have been completed during the Month of the Contest." Ok-ok I understand! Edited May 7, 2011 by Aramon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordovician_Odyssey Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 Well guys, I found another beauty Triarthrus today, which i beleive is a great contestant! Triarthrus spinosus Billings fm. Upper Ordovician Found May 7th -Shamus The Ordovician enthusiast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diplotomodon Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Well guys, I found another beauty Triarthrus today, which i beleive is a great contestant! Triarthrus spinosus Billings fm. Upper Ordovician Found May 7th A very nice example! And I still have zip to enter...when's Big Brook? Great stuff so far everyone! What a wonderful menagerie! Who would believe that such as register lay buried in the strata? To open the leaves, to unroll the papyrus, has been an intensely interesting though difficult work, having all the excitement and marvelous development of a romance. And yet the volume is only partly read. Many a new page I fancy will yet be opened. -- Edward Hitchcock, 1858 Formerly known on the forum as Crimsonraptor @Diplotomodon on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordovician_Odyssey Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 A very nice example! Thank you, Kevin!! -Shamus The Ordovician enthusiast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 (edited) Hello all. Here is my first entry for this month. An almost complete liliaceae in family and crinum in genus flower (root, stem and flower head not still open ) found on 08 May 2011 Dimensions: Fossil 37,5 cm long, Matrix 40 x 29 x 3 cm. Age: Late miocene Location: Middle Crete island, Greece Good luck every one. Edited May 26, 2011 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 (edited) Hello,i just finished this Weekend to prep this stone from the Toarcian (lower Jurassic)from the south of Caen with a lot of Dactylioceras commune and a Hildoceras bifrons on the matrix.Very representative from this stage in the site Found 28/04/2011 finish to prep 08/05/2011 Edited May 10, 2011 by nala Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Hello,i just finished this Weekend to prep this stone from the Toarcian (lower Jurassic)from the south of Caen with a lot of Dactylioceras commune and a Hildoceras bifrons on the matrix.Very representative from this stage in the site Found 28/04/2011 finish to prep 08/05/2011 nala, that is a very impressive find. AWESOME!! Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 nala, that is a very impressive find. AWESOME!! Thanks sixgill pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Hello,i just finished this Weekend to prep this stone from the Toarcian (lower Jurassic)from the south of Caen with a lot of Dactylioceras commune and a Hildoceras bifrons on the matrix.Very representative from this stage in the site Found 28/04/2011 finish to prep 08/05/2011 Great prep work and nice piece Nando Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Hello all. My second entry for this month is a slab bearing both verts and inverts on both sides. At first there are some complete leaves and plantation fragments on both sides. Moreover on the first side is an eel and on the second side a 5 cm bone.The bone is unidentified. Since I have already participated to the inverts contest, the eel is going to open the dance for the verts contest of the month. Species: Conger sp eel found on 01 May 2011 with the prep completed on the 10th of May. Dimensions: 17 cm long (about 20 cm if straight). Age: Late miocene. Location: Middle Crete island, Greece. Attached pics before and after. Good luck everyone. And a question to my dear John: If the bone was ided, could it participate to the contest in compination with the eel, since both are attached on the same slab and from this aspect they are one find? Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Great prep work and nice piece Nando Thanks Nando! i used different tips and small blades to remove very carefully the limestone(i think there are still other specimens into ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted May 14, 2011 Author Share Posted May 14, 2011 .... And a question to my dear John: If the bone was ided, could it participate to the contest in compination with the eel, since both are attached on the same slab and from this aspect they are one find? They already are an associated find in the same way that there have been other multi-species entries naturally encased in the same matrix. In this case we have a Conger sp. eel associated with unidentified plant fragments and an unidentified bone. A truly remarkable find. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 They already are an associated find in the same way that there have been other multi-species entries naturally encased in the same matrix. In this case we have a Conger sp. eel associated with unidentified plant fragments and an unidentified bone. A truly remarkable find. Many thanks John. That's really a pleasant answer! Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Hello all. My second entry for this month is a slab bearing both verts and inverts on both sides. At first there are some complete leaves and plantation fragments on both sides. Moreover on the first side is an eel and on the second side a 5 cm bone.The bone is unidentified. Since I have already participated to the inverts contest, the eel is going to open the dance for the verts contest of the month. Species: Conger sp eel found on 01 May 2011 with the prep completed on the 10th of May. Dimensions: 17 cm long (about 20 cm if straight). Age: Late miocene. Location: Middle Crete island, Greece. Attached pics before and after. Good luck everyone. And a question to my dear John: If the bone was ided, could it participate to the contest in compination with the eel, since both are attached on the same slab and from this aspect they are one find? Nice finds . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Nice finds . Many thanks, Thomas Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmorefossil Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 They already are an associated find in the same way that there have been other multi-species entries naturally encased in the same matrix. In this case we have a Conger sp. eel associated with unidentified plant fragments and an unidentified bone. A truly remarkable find. Haha why not I did it with one of my porpoise skulls where it had a megalodon tooth up against it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-dog Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Astron,you were probably too tired to do your happy dance after that prep work .So hang on,I'll do one for you. :jig: :jig: Bear-dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Astron,you were probably too tired to do your happy dance after that prep work .So hang on,I'll do one for you. :jig: :jig: Clayton, thanks a lot Your dancing ballet has actually rested me enough Very kind of you. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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