June 2013 Finds Of The Month

Entries will be taken through June 30th. 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.
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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!

Here's my entry for Invertebrate of the month. It's a multiple plate of Eldredgeops rana. One guy seems to be trying to hide under his buddy's tail from the approaching tsunami of mud, which ultimately buried them all.

Eldredgeops rana

Lower Windom Shale, Moscow Formation

Penn-Dixie Quarry, Hamburg, New York

Middle Devonian

Collected on 5/18/2013

Prepped 6/5 - 6/6

Here's my entry for vertebrate fossil of the month:

Protosphyraena rostrum found 07Jun2013 in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, TX

Here's my entry: Couple of medium size Anasibirites kingianus from the Thaynes formation early triassic of Cowboy Pass Utah

Here's my entry for Invertebrate of the month. It's a multiple plate of Eldredgeops rana. One guy seems to be trying to hide under his buddy's tail from the approaching tsunami of mud, which ultimately buried them all.

Eldredgeops rana

Lower Windom Shale, Moscow Formation

Penn-Dixie Quarry, Hamburg, New York

Middle Devonian

Collected on 5/18/2013

Prepped 6/5 - 6/6

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Love the bugs from NY!

Here's my entry: Couple of medium size Anasibirites kingianus from the Thaynes formation early triassic of Cowboy Pass Utah

When was it found, John?

OOPS! Found May 17th but finished prepped June 7th

Here is my entry for the invertebrate fossil of the month:

On June 2nd I found this rare, we think it may be whole, Celtencrinurus trilobite in the Galena Formation, Fillmore County, Minnesota.

The hunt is on my website.

Bev

In my eyes, some of the most remarkable and delicate invertebrate fossils are those of Genicularia vertebralis, an annelid worm of the class Polychaetia. The “fossils” are actually the casts of the burrows these worms created and are represented by calcified shells. Some are wonderfully preserved, albeit somewhat fragile and the preservation of the ornamentation never fails to delight.

Found 14 / 12 / 2012 by myself, tentatively finished prepping today.

Geology of find:

athleta Zone , Lower Oxford Clay , Peterborough , UK : 165Ma.

Darren.

My entry for invertebrate of the month: Eurypterus Remipes, a Euryriptide from the late Silurian Bertie Group. Found in the fiddlers green formation at ridgemont quarry Fort Erie,

Ontario, Canada on June 7th 2013. Found by myself.

Well it doesnt hurt to enter, but i thought this tooth was really cool.

tiger shark, galeocerdo adunchus with pathology, 2 tips, one bent very far back. Its my first ever tooth with major pathology.

oligocene

chandlerbridge formation

summerville SC

Well it doesnt hurt to enter, but i thought this tooth was really cool.

tiger shark, galeocerdo adunchus with pathology, 2 tips, one bent very far back. Its my first ever tooth with major pathology.

oligocene

chandlerbridge formation

summerville SC

Love it. I have a couple split tips but nothing quite like that.

you should enter your ric! it sure beats the heck out of my tooth!

My entry for the Invertebrate of the month:

Name: Sporadoscinia stellata

Phylum: Porifera

Class: Hexactinellida

Age: K₂st (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian)

Location: Saratov, Russian Federation

Discovery date: 2 June 2013

Preparation finished: 3 June 2013

Short description: Complete skeleton with stem and roots

You've got to be kidding! Rotating in 3D. Even though I've submitted my own entry.....I may have to vote for yours on style.

Tom

WOW, Evgeny! I love seeing your fossil animated!!

Tom, Roz, thanks 3D is the best way of showing sponges because of their forms difficult to perception from 2D photo

My entry for the Invertebrate of the month:

Name: Sporadoscinia stellata

Phylum: Porifera

Class: Hexactinellida

Age: K₂st (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian)

Location: Saratov, Russian Federation

Discovery date: 2 June 2013

Preparation finished: 3 June 2013

Short description: Complete skeleton with stem and roots

WOW!!! Wonderful presentation of a beautiful fossil.

This reminded me of a topic regarding 3D imaging that was posted in the past that I meant to follow-up on, but forgot.

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/18708-3d-object-photography/

Thanks for reminding me. Now all I've got to do is get the materials and give it a try.

WOW!!! Wonderful presentation of a beautiful fossil.

This reminded me of a topic regarding 3D imaging that was posted in the past that I meant to follow-up on, but forgot.

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/18708-3d-object-photography/

Thanks for reminding me. Now all I've got to do is get the materials and give it a try.

Thanks! Don't forget to show us your result of 3D imaging

Mikey

This is going to be a tough vote.

Beautiful fossil!

Hi,

this is my contribution to the Vertebrate contest.

It is 7 cm (2.8 inch) long juvenile individual of a Discosauriscus sp. (Amphibian)
Date of the discovery and preparation: June 22th 2013
Locality: Boskovice, Czech Republic (Europe)
Geologic Age: Letovice formation (Paleozoic, Permian, 299 Ma)

Fossil after preparation

Field where it was found:

Situation at finding and before preparation:

I thought I would throw my hat into the ring with a Vertebrate fossil Coelacanth fish called Rhabdoderma elegans. This juvenile fish is about 7cm or nearly 3 inches long. I discovered it June 15, 2013 while splitting Cannel coal from Linton, Ohio. This Cannel coal is from the Upper Freeport #7 coal in the Allegheny group, making this fossil Pennsylvanian in age.

Here is part and counterpart.

Enjoy!

I thought I would throw my hat into the ring with a Vertebrate fossil Coelacanth fish called Rhabdoderma elegans. This juvenile fish is about 7cm or nearly 3 inches long. I discovered it June 15, 2013 while splitting Cannel coal from Linton, Ohio. This Cannel coal is from the Upper Freeport #7 coal in the Allegheny group, making this fossil Pennsylvanian in age.

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Here is part and counterpart.

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Enjoy!

There it is!