Uncle Siphuncle Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 (edited) I found this cool little rhino jaw Hyracodon nebrascensis on the first day of our Nebraska Badlands trip on Sept 24. Brule Formation, Oligocene, 35 MYA. Prepped Oct 22. GOOD TIMES! Edited October 27, 2012 by danwoehr Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 (edited) Stiff competition this month....big bills floatin' around and all I could throw in the ring was a paltry quarter.... Edited October 27, 2012 by danwoehr Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Stiff competition this month....big bills floatin' around and all I could throw in the ring was a paltry quarter.... Goin' for the sympathy vote... "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMNH Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Thanks Astrinos and Survivor, it's my new favourite trilobite! I was lucky to spot it, since it was found ventral side up with just the bottom edges of the body poking out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Stiff competition this month....big bills floatin' around and all I could throw in the ring was a paltry quarter.... Anyway, it turns around to be the richest TFF competition ever... Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crinoid Queen Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Stiff competition this month....big bills floatin' around and all I could throw in the ring was a paltry quarter.... :rofl: :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobiteruss Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 This month I would like to submit this Greenops widderensis from the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of Ontario. I finished preparing it yesterday. It measures 25 mm long by 15 mm wide. I left some matrix behind the genal spines for fear that further prep would break them. Wow an awesome trilobite and prep job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njfossilhunter Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Ptychodus Atco Formation Upper Cretaceous Found last Saturday on the 20 That's a beautiful Ptychodus tooth.... I have all ways been very partial to them....Super nice find.. TonyThe Brooks Are Like A Box Of Chocolates,,,, You Never Know What You'll Find. I Told You I Don't Have Alzheimer's.....I Have Sometimers. Some Times I Remember And Some Times I Forget.... I Mostly Forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 One of my best finds to date. A British Ptychodus tooth found yesterday. There are very rare unlike the ones found in the US. One of my friends has only found one in 10 years of collecting. Ptychodus sp Lower Chalk, Bedfordshire, UK Cretaceous, 70 - 90 myo 5.5 mm across Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Here's my entry for this month. It was found on Oct. 14 and prep finished on Oct. 28. Crassiproetus arietinus (Walter, 1923) Little Cedar Formation, Solon member Middle Devonian Coralville, IA Excerpt from "Geologic Reconnaissance of the Coralville Lake Area" Orrin W. Plocher, 1989 Caleb Midwestpaleo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 I'm glad you prepped the Proetus first from your recent trip. They can be hard to prep sometimes due to their thin exo. Very cool! Mikey Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Hey Dan.. that is an incredibly small rhino jaw... good find. As for all the money being placed in photos in hopes of bribing the electorate... remember, my cat is cuter than your 20 dollar bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 i enjoyed making that rhino find first day of the trip. nice to have the symphesis intact too. the experienced collectors seemed impressed by the crisp preservation of a couple of the teeth. as for the bigger rhino, subhyracodon, brett found a monster complete enamel cap... very good find, one of a handful of trip makers... Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Here is my mystery fossil: Possible Undescribed Worm in a Burrow ( palaeoscolecid) measures approx 1mm diameter x 10mm long Found Oct 13, 2012 Late Ordovician: Verulam/Bobcaygeon formation near Gamebridge Ontario Canada Dr Joe Botting latest comments "my hunch at the moment, looking at the shadows) then you're looking at palaeoscolecid. The worm interpretation would make more sense with being in a burrow as well, of course. " " "I'm getting more persuaded by palaeoscolecid, Peter. The critical thing is that the tiny discs are made of a darker material than the surrounding, rather than just being in shadow, and I think in most cases at least, the rows are paired, with a depressed band between pairs. This is what you expect with palaeoscolecids, as you have (usually) transverse annulae each with two rows of phosphatic plates. In places you can't see the 'plates' clearly, probably because it seems to have been partly infilled with a sheet of calcite that is obscuring a lot of the details - bit in other areas they are fairly clear. Now the clincher would be an array of little nodes on the plates themselves (as in Palaeoscolex). There should also be a very fine array of microplates on the surface between the plates, but you won't get an image of that without SEM. If it does end up as palaeoscolecid then it's very interesting - I don't know of any Late Ordovician ones, although there are a couple from the Late Silurian." " I still think there are structures here that look like palaeoscolecid, but often this takes SEM to confirm (even when I'm holding the specimen)." PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Just found and prep this perfect Cretaceous echinoid Conulus subrotundus Mantell, 1822 Turonian Le Tréport Normandy France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 My entry for FotM is a Troostocrinus reinwardi, from the M. Silurian Brownsport Fm. of Tennessee, found October 16. It is a beautiful large, ideal, specimens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossil Diver Steve Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Hi All, Attached is my entry for the fossil of the month. Found: 10-27-12 Name: Best guess on the ID forum is a Paracrinoid. Location: Near Byron, IL. Formation: Galena-Platteville It appears to me that the crystal stem is indeed a stem. I have no solid identification at this time. No prep work required other than washing the dirt off. This is one of the most amazing fossils that I have ever found. The more I look at it, the better it gets! This is me when I found this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 wow pleecan this is amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 Thanks David. It is still a guess on it's true identity... I don't have a SEM unit in my basement.... to verify the id.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 yes but this is an uncommon interesting find... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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