JohnJ Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 The Winner of the February 2012 Invertebrate / Plant Find Of The Month is the Ceratolichas dracon Lichid trilobite cephalon from the Devonian Onondaga Limestone of New York, USA! Congratulations to our new member, GerryK, on the recent discovery and meticulous preparation of his decade old find! Thank you to every else who participated. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Amazing fossil, congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Bravo Gerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullsnake Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Congratulations! Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squalicorax Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Nice prep work. I hear these lichids are rare bugs. Ive only seen a few nice cephalons of them in person. My Flickr Page of My Collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79424101@N00/sets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vordigern Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 awesome find and prep work, congrats!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCFossils Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Great month with some amazing fossils. Congratulations on the beautiful lichid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Amazing find, Congratulations Wonderful the rest participations, as well Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Bravo for this little trilobite. It is so small! And the preparation was have to be easy. The victory is deserved. Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Pareidolia : here Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Congratulations, great bug Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerryK Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 I want to thank those who voted for my specimen of Ceratolichas dracon. So many nice fossils were submitted for the month and I want to thank those who entered their specimens. James Hall reconstructed this species with 6 spines on the cephalon. After many years collecting in the Onondaga Limestone, I didn’t believe a Lichid from NY would have so many spines on the head. After prepping this specimen, not only did I realize Hall was correct but there were 3 more spines he didn’t illustrate. I will be attending MAPS and if anyone else will be there and would like to see the trilobite, stop by my table and I’ll show it to you. Also, I haven’t yet introduced myself to the FF in the Members Introductions section and I should do it now and update My Profile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeman Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Great find and well preped! Keep up the great work! Troy Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntrusc Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Great find, and superb prep. Thanks Neil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Congratulations!!!! Super find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Sorry I missed out on this vote, but I was awol. Great fossil, and scary looking to boot! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMNH Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Amazing find and prep job...a well deserved win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kehbe Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Welcome to the fossil forum and Gratz to you on the win! Really nice specimen and great prep work! It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crinoid Queen Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Welcome to the Forum and Congrats! Close race Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 The alien head wins it! Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfergirlatx Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Congratulations, its amazing!!! "The road to success is always under construction." Author Unknown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfergirlatx Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Congratulations, its amazing!!! "The road to success is always under construction." Author Unknown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Congratulations! That is one scary looking critter. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarleysGh0st Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Gerry, is there any chance you have photos of this specimen before the prep work was finished? I'm always amazed that such fragile and bizarre appendages can be preserved and I'm curious what something like that looks like when it's still embedded in the matrix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerryK Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Gerry, is there any chance you have photos of this specimen before the prep work was finished? I'm always amazed that such fragile and bizarre appendages can be preserved and I'm curious what something like that looks like when it's still embedded in the matrix. Sorry, there are no photos before I prepped. If I had taken a photo, one would see two chunks of limestone with 2 round black circles that were the cross section of spines. Not a interesting photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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