pleecan Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 (edited) While looking at some Arkona mud for some microfossils, came across an interesting Vertebrate Microtooth Dec. Entry: Approx 300 microns in length Middle Devonian Hamilton Group Find Dec 24,2011 Imaged with a Bellows system , Panasonic G1 camera + Konica Hexanon F1.7/50mm lens + extension tubes. Edited December 28, 2011 by pleecan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefootgirl Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Wow! So many great finds this month. It's going to be very hard to choose. In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory. Alfred North Whithead 'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMNH Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Great finds this month! :Bananasaur: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 I usually don't enter this competition, but that VFOTM badge next to winner's profiles sure looks nice! Jaguar Canine Panthera onca Pleistocene Gilchrist County, FL Found Dec. 23rd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Man oh man. This has been a great month for finding fossils. Now if'n I could only find something like many of these things... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acryzona Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Nice find Peter! Collecting Microfossils - a hobby concerning much about many of the little paraphrased from Dr. Robert Kesling's book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Okay folks, I had a change of heart on which find I wanted to enter, so here it is: an ultra rare Carcharocles auriculatus upper jaw parasymphyseal tooth; not all individuals bore this tooth position and was lost entirely by the Miocene Found 16 Dec 2011 Martin Maritta quarry in Onslow County NC Castle Hayne Formation Eocene 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...
barefootgirl Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Good grief how is one to choose! Looks like everyone is getting great finds this month. Congrats everyone. In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory. Alfred North Whithead 'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeloiVarden Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 I just took a look at all of the entries this month and can't believe how many shark teeth have been entered. So I decided to add one more. I found this tooth yesterday. Upon cleaning all of the river grime and life off of it, I was suprised to find it was a bit pathological. I have found pathological angys, but never one approaching the 4" mark. 3.81" Pathological C. Angustidens Oligocene 12/26/11 Lowcountry of SC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefootgirl Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 I just took a look at all of the entries this month and can't believe how many shark teeth have been entered. So I decided to add one more. I found this tooth yesterday. Upon cleaning all of the river grime and life off of it, I was suprised to find it was a bit pathological. I have found pathological angys, but never one approaching the 4" mark. 3.81" Pathological C. Angustidens Oligocene 12/26/11 Lowcountry of SC :Drool: :Drool: !!!! Wowzer. In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory. Alfred North Whithead 'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Nice find Peter! Thanks Matthew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Here is my invertebrate entry Dec: Micro Fossil ostracode: Approx 200 microns in length Middle Devonian Hamilton Group Find Dec 24,2011 Imaged with a Bellows system , Panasonic G1 camera + Konica Hexanon F1.7/50mm lens + extension tubes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) Few, just managed to get in before it closed! My fossil! Fossil: Brachiopod: gibbithyris ellipsoidali Size: See picture for scale Age: Cretaceous age, (70 - 90 myo) Location: Totternhoe, Bedfordshire Edited December 31, 2011 by Odinofthenorth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Fossil: inoceramus Age: Cretaceous age, (70 - 90 myo) Location: Totternhoe, Bedfordshire Size: 5cm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the tatter Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Here is my little broyzoan, from the Mississippian, Pitkin Limestone, NW Arkansas, found 12/4/2011. It is approx 3cm, and just popped out of the rock the way you see it. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 (edited) My Vertebrate entry for December Cladodus Tooth, 2.9 cm tall Upper Mississippian, Chesterian, upper Bangor Limestone Marshall Co., Al Found 12/14/11 Edited January 1, 2012 by Archimedes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xonenine Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 how cool to see a bryo on here tatter! Nice! "Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile." Lepidus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 My Invertebrate entry for December is an enrolled 3-D Trilobite, 1.28 cm wide Kaskia chesterensis Upper Mississippian, Chesterian, lower Bangor Limestone Colbert Co., Al Found 12/30/11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 I have been going around in circles trying to determine the Kaskia-Paladin synonymy for the Bangor Limestone. Although Paladin was redefined (Cisne, 1967), and Kaskia at the time considered to be its junior synonym, you will be happy to know that Kaskia chesterensis is the valid genus / species by the most recent description (Brezinski, 2008). Congrats on your beautiful bug Archimedes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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