Phoenixflood Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Hi everyone You will have till the 7th of Jan to choose your best find from December. I encourage everyone partipating to include the name of your find, the date it was discovered, and perhaps a narrative about your discovery. This will help us greatly in choosing fossils for the poll that will come after the 7th of Jan. We will only include what you provide. You may only post ONE fossil per person. If you post more than one we will not consider either. It must have been found in DECEMBER for it to be eligible! With that said let's see some great entries!!! The soul of a Fossil Hunter is one that is seeking, always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Nobody's found anything good so far this month?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Nobody's found anything good so far this month?! why don't you rub it in?! i'm working on assembling the t-rex because i figure it'll be more dramatic. now don't bother me while i'm super-gluing this perfectly preserved eyeball back into the socket...AIYEEE!!!!! (wrong eyeball) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Fine, fine. I'll get us started off. I know as soon as I post this, I'll find something 10x better and not be able to enter it. Pleistocene horse (Equus) ungual phalanx (hoof core). The second pic is showing the bone that would have connected to it, but that's a separate fossil found at a different time. The hoof core is what I'm entering. Found December 7th. I can get better pics upon request, but this is all I had on the computer at the moment. I would give a story about it, but it would be boring. I was diving, I stuck my hand in the sand/gravel, felt something strange, pulled it out and this was sitting in my hand. -Cris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 (edited) I know it's not a nice tooth to most of you ppl but for me it is my best find of this month ...i just love the colors on this megalodon shark tooth, im thinking to get it fixed soon. found it on Dec 14 in a creek from Gainesville Fla. No story to tell, just lots of digging and sifting. Edited December 18, 2009 by edd " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Edd, it looks like exotic candy corn. Do you know which type of shark tooth it is? The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 forgot to mention it is Megalodon shark tooth...ill edit the post " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Let me spark a little interest in inverts this month....featured is an extremely rare Maastrichtian regular echinoid Codiopsis (gonna be) woehri found at dusk on 12/06 (no flashlight required this month!) I've found perhaps 8 of these things in the last 4 years out of some 2000-3000 perfect echinoids taken there. So as you can see, even with a ludicrously productive site one can see that this critter is statistically an improbable find. Now multiply that scarcity by the paucity of good Upper K echinoid sites in Texas and you'll quickly surmise that not many of these things have been or will be found - ever. The only two known to be outside of my collection are the 2 roughest ones I put in the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science collection. Cosmopolitan echinoid guru Andrew Smith in London has apparently inspected one or both specimens and agrees that we are looking at a new species. I've seen the description of the next closest known critter in Texas, Codiopsis stephensoni, and it is generally known from the Escondido fm, not the Corsicana where mine have been coming from, but more significantly there are diagnostic differences between the two. Most obvious is the sharper ambitus of my specimens than C. stephensoni, meaning mine has a sharp transition from maximum diameter to a flat bottom, while C. stephensoni has a more convex, gradually rounded bottom. George Phillips at the MMNS says he'd like to push description of this thing to the front of his backlog of echies to describe, ahead of a potentially new spatangoid of mine, one which I may save for another FOTM contest, hehehe. Anyway, the specimen featured this month is above average in size, the only high form specimen I've taken out of the whole mess of them, and the only one with all the tubercles still attached, including the secondary tubercles, none of which remain on my other specimens. I left a little matrix in places where I was afraid to pop off tubercles. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haddy Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Let me spark a little interest in inverts this month....featured is an extremely rare Maastrichtian regular echinoid Codiopsis (gonna be) woehri found at dusk on 12/06 nice find! and congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members Ken_Gardiner Posted December 23, 2009 New Members Share Posted December 23, 2009 I just found this tooth last week and needed help with the ID. Someone suggested I enter it so here goes: Tooth was found on the bank of an intracoastal waterway about 3 miles from Atlantic beach in Florida (Northeast Fl.) I thought it was possibly a Giant Thresher, but thanks to the help I learned it is a Parotodus benedini. It is currently the best tooth I have found. Its in pretty good shape with some cracking in the gums and missing a small bit of the tip. Length: 2 1/2 Width: 2 1/16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Wow, Dan! That is some nice preservation on a very interesting specimen. Serious Muhaha! Nice tooth, Ken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Dan, that is a spectacular echinoid! Codiopsis (woehri) looks better than it did with dirt on it. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megateeth Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 I just found this tooth last week and needed help with the ID. Someone suggested I enter it so here goes: Tooth was found on the bank of an intracoastal waterway about 3 miles from Atlantic beach in Florida (Northeast Fl.) I thought it was possibly a Giant Thresher, but thanks to the help I learned it is a Parotodus benedini. It is currently the best tooth I have found. Its in pretty good shape with some cracking in the gums and missing a small bit of the tip. Length: 2 1/2 Width: 2 1/16 Really Awesome. I know how hard benedinis are to find. I find one nice one every 200 dives or so. Really Cool!! Megateeth Fossils - Megalodon Teeth, Other Shark Teeth and Info about Megalodon shark tooth collecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracer Jr. Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 here's my entry, an invert this month. this monster is solid limestone, and weighs probably around 100 pounds. biggest ammonite to date, i think it's pretty cool. not sure the exact date but it was found over our expedition to north texas. here goes my scientific name spelling attempt: Eopachydiscus marcianus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Good Grief, TJ, that is insane! "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...
megateeth Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Wow!!! TJr. I am stunned. I did not know that the got that large. Of course I am not an expert on them. NICE Find!!!!! Megateeth Fossils - Megalodon Teeth, Other Shark Teeth and Info about Megalodon shark tooth collecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracer Jr. Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Thanks a lot for the comments guys. By far the biggest we have found and a really nice showpiece for our collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 TJ, it looks like the spare tire from Barney Rubble's car....awesome. Is it from the Duck Creek Formation of the Washita Group? The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracer Jr. Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 John, it came from the duck creek formation. There's Nothing like having your rock hammer bounce off huge blocks of limestone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 TJ Did you hit yourself in the forehead on the rebound??? I would have.... Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracer Jr. Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 no dan, my arm strength does not compare to your beastliness which allows you to swing your rock hammer at the speed of light. i did, however, get a few chunks of limestone in the eyes. glasses may have been a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenixflood Posted December 28, 2009 Author Share Posted December 28, 2009 Thanks a lot for the comments guys. By far the biggest we have found and a really nice showpiece for our collection. TJ that's awesome! I have one that's about the size of a steering wheel. What are the dimensions on the BIG ONE? The soul of a Fossil Hunter is one that is seeking, always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evans Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Here is my run at FOTM for December: A plate from the Texas Anacacho formation consisting of four currently unidentified baculites, approximately thirteen gastropods and mixed coral and shell hash. Enjoy Brian Brian Evans For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 You guys sure do find some very nice fossils! Dan, that echy is super nice! Tracer jr, if you find any ammos any bigger you wont be able to take a photo of them on your lap. Im thinking you have bruzes on your legs with that one? Maybe someday I will post a fossil of the month, not sure, all my stuff is found long ago and has to be prepped. Right now Im on the 4th day of gutting out my little garage (-12 degrees yesterday!!!) and already have two new cercuits in, other wires moved, all the insulation in, half of the sheetrock in and already installed a new in the wall heater. In about 5 more days I just may have a very clean, very organized and heated garage. Im just about ready to start prepping no matter how cold it may be? I wish all of you folks good luck with your Fossils of The Month. Some nice specimens out there. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefootgirl Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Wow, it's gonna be another hard month. All of your finds are just awesome. 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...
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