JohnJ Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 It's the end of another year and we've had the chance to see outstanding finds made by our members. I hope this month you make your best find! Let's see them. The objective is to have fun. So carefully read the rules below, and go make some great finds! Entries will be taken through December 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...
Dremmle Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 I would like to submit this find to the Invertebrate/Plant Fossil of the Month. This petrified wood was found on December 3rd, 2011 in Briscoe County West Texas in the Dockum Group,Triassic Period. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vordigern Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 nice big hunk of wood! the stuff I find here in NJ can be held in one hand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Hello all. My first entry to the contest is my favorite cupressaceae specimen I have found to date. Fossil: A fully opened carbonized thujia sp. cone with some seeds intact (part and counterpart). Dimensions: 3 cm long. Age: Late miocene Location: Middle Crete island, Greece. Date: 04 Dec. 2011 Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 I have found Trimerus delphinocephalus here in NY that were 7.5" and 5" long and one from Middleport that was 9.5" long but I never found one that was .4" long until today. I havent done a thing to him other then bring him home and take a couple of photos. Middle Silurian, Clinton group, Rochester shale, Rochester NY. Found at 2:10 pm on 12/08/2011. Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeman Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 I found this on Dec 2nd while cleaning windows. Horn Coral plate Plateville Formation Original source - Quarry west of Janesville, WI Ordovician age Troy Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 I have found Trimerus delphinocephalus here in NY that were 7.5" and 5" long and one from Middleport that was 9.5" long but I never found one that was .4" long until today. I havent done a thing to him other then bring him home and take a couple of photos. Middle Silurian, Clinton group, Rochester shale, Rochester NY. Found at 2:10 pm on 12/08/2011. What a fantastic fossil find. One feature worth mentioning and might confuse the casual observer is the apparent genal spine. The New York homalonotids lack genal spines even as sub-adult meraspid forms. Your superb specimen is exhibiting a displaced free-cheek (librigena) and attached is a generic type example for comparison. Look forward to seeing the result after you finish prepping it! Congrats Mikeymig! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 What a fantastic fossil find. One feature worth mentioning and might confuse the casual observer is the apparent genal spine. The New York homalonotids lack genal spines even as sub-adult meraspid forms. Your superb specimen is exhibiting a displaced free-cheek (librigena) and attached is a generic type example for comparison. Look forward to seeing the result after you finish prepping it! Congrats Mikeymig! Thanks and to be honest I saw the spine but then stopped for a nano and thought " is this really a trimerus?". I never seen this before on them and the smallest I ever found before this guy was 1" but it looked just like a real small adult. COOL and thank you to for the info as always. Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crinoid1 Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 I thought I might enter this month. I just took out my pick and finished this guy up. He is definitely one of my favorite blastoids. Pentremites sp. From Madison Co. AL St. Genevieve Ls. Mississippian I like crinoids...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chele Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 (edited) Hello everybody, I would like to submit my flower. This specimen is the spherical flowering head of the bur-reed Sparganium antiquum. It is from the Fort Union Formation, Paleocene . The location is north eastern Montana just outside the little town of Savage. I found this flower on the 6th of December but I did not split till the 8th. This is my first flower find and I am very happy! Edited December 29, 2011 by chele Chelebele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Hello everybody, I would like to submit my flower. This specimen is the spherical flowering head of the bur-reed Sparganium antiquum. It is from the Fort Union Formation, Paleocene. I found this flower on the 6th of December but I did not split till the 8th. This is my first flower find and I am very happy! Justifiedly, Chele! That's a beauty!!! Congratulations! Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chele Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Thank you Astron! I wish I had cones that looked as nice as yours. Chelebele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Hello everybody, I would like to submit my flower. This specimen is the spherical flowering head of the bur-reed Sparganium antiquum. It is from the Fort Union Formation, Paleocene. I found this flower on the 6th of December but I did not split till the 8th. This is my first flower find and I am very happy! Thats not a flower. Its an ancient hieroglyph of the sun made by a Neandergnome. LUCKY Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinopaleus Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 wow. good stuff already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenocidaris Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 I'd like to submit this fossil for the Vertebrate find of the month. I don't think I'll find anything better this month! Name: Woolley mammoth Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) molar. It's the first true molar (M1 or M4 depending on which way of counting is used) from the left upper jaw of a mammoth in his teens. Location: Northsea beach, The Netherlands. Age: Pleistocene, Late-Pleistocene, Weichselian aka The Last Ice Age, apprx 30,000 to 50,000 years old. Date: 9 December 2011. It's an almost perfect molar, with great roots, and a very nice chewing surface, also still having most of it's 'covering cement' (the brown stuff on the outside). Please note that the scale bar is in centimetres. Sincerely, Bram Fossils: a way of life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpaleo Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 My imperfect, but still very interesting 4.66" Carcharocles megalodon from the Miocene in age Round Mountain Silt Temblor Fossil Formation in Bakersfield, California. I dug this tooth out of the West Quarry on a Museum run dig on December 4th. This tooth was quite a thrill to find, and the first fossil I've come across in a while that I feel is pretty impressive. I think this photo is the most interesting shot I have of the tooth, sitting between a whale vertebrae and various seal bones. Nice finds all around this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt. Nemo Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Find on 8th December, my first jaw of Cainotherium from the French (Auvergne) Oligocene: Nice fossil of mammal. Collection & Exchanges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Dude Nemo that jaw ROCKS! Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Hello all. Ok, I know it's not good to participate with more than one item, but I can't resist to this slab containing plant and fishy material and a caterpillar. Since the inverts material domains, it's to participate to the IPFOTM contest, as it happens with my first entry. Trere are 2 pics of the hole slab attached to this post and 10 close ups attached to the next post. I have marked on the second pic of this post where on the slab every close up is. Contestant's description. A slab measuring 33 x 23 cm and containing: 1. A thujia sp. (cupressaceae family) cone - Close up 1. 2. A pinus sp. seed - Close up 2. 3. A lot of seed pods, seeds or small fruits. Some of them in the close ups 3, 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d. 4. A 14 mm caterpillar (not superb but enough to me) - Close up 4. 5. Some fish scales. The 2 cm bigger one is shown in the close up 5 and 6. Some fish bones. The 6,5 cm bigger one is shown in the close up 6. Location: Middle Crete island, Greece. Age: Late miocene. Date: 11 Dec. 2011 Good luck all and excuse me for the big story. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 And the 10 close ups. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 (edited) This is the first fossil I've found here in China (1st of Nov. 2011), it is a Scorpionfly: My colleague and I wanted to visit a customer near Nincheng in Nei Mongol, China when I saw a drywall made out of grey flag stones. Looked very promising. I could pursuade my colleague (who was driving the car) to take a rest.... Unfortunately I could not tear down the wall - the owner of the drywall didn't like my idea and opposed. I guess the shale is from the Daohugou Formation. Mecoptera non det., Scorpionfly Daohugou Formation Lower Cretaceous Nincheng Nei Mongol China Thomas Edited December 21, 2011 by oilshale Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 This is the first fossil I've found here in China, it is a Scorpionfly: My colleague and I wanted to visit a customer near Nincheng in Nei Mongol, China when I saw a drywall made out of grey flag stones. Looked very promising. I could pursuade my colleague (who was driving the car) to take a rest.... Unfortunately I could not tear down the wall - the owner of the drywall didn't like my idea and opposed. I guess the shale is from the Daohugou Formation. Mecoptera non det., Scorpionfly Daohugou Formation Lower Cretaceous Nincheng Nei Mongol China Thomas Shame you could not tear down the wall, great find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 (edited) From China With Bugs :Bananasaur: This is the first fossil I've found here in China (1st of Nov. 2011), it is a Scorpionfly: My colleague and I wanted to visit a customer near Nincheng in Nei Mongol, China when I saw a drywall made out of grey flag stones. Looked very promising. I could pursuade my colleague (who was driving the car) to take a rest.... Unfortunately I could not tear down the wall - the owner of the drywall didn't like my idea and opposed. I guess the shale is from the Daohugou Formation. Mecoptera non det., Scorpionfly Daohugou Formation Lower Cretaceous Nincheng Nei Mongol China Thomas Edited December 21, 2011 by Nandomas Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik m Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 (edited) This tooth wanted to be a Benedeni. I fond this tooth last wensday and with all the sand on it I did think yes I have a benedeni tooth here. But after a good clean I did see the serrations on the tooth and so it is a pathological . A tooth like this one is also very rare to find here in the Netherlands in the sandpits from Mill. A Isurus escheri tooth is from the Neogeen deposits and some where 5 to 10 million years old. So I think this tooth can be in this topic and I wil see what you all think of this tooth. Greetings to all and also Merry Christmas and a good 2012. Erik. Edited December 29, 2011 by erik m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDOTB Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 This tooth wanted to be a Benedeni. I fond this tooth last wensday and with all the sand on it I did think yes I have a benedeni tooth here. But after a good clean I did see the serrations on the tooth and so it is a phato escheri tooth. A tooth like this one is also very rare to find here in the Netherlands. So I think this tooth can be in this topic and I wil see what you all think of this tooth. Greetings to all and also Merry Christmas and a good 2012. Erik. Wow, great tooth Erik. Those serrations are definitely distinguishable. And that is quite the abnormal tooth shape too. Great find. Regards, Mike DO, or do not. There is no try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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