July 2024 Vertebrate Fossil Of The Month Poll

[digit]

Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries.

 

The poll ends August 9th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE

 

1. Elasmosauridae plesiosaur vertebra -  Cretaceous, Wenonah Formation - Monmouth County, New Jersey

 

2. Dinosaur track (ichnofossil) - Upper Triassic, Newark Supergroup, Passaic Formation - Dulles, Virginia

 

3. Hexanchus sp. shark tooth - Cretaceous, Cenomanian, Grey Chalk Subgroup - Cambridgeshire, England

 

4. Bird (possibly Mousebird / Coliiformes) - Eocene, Green River Formation, Sandwich Layer - Kemmerer, Wyoming

 

5. Listracanthus sp. chondrichthyan - Late Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian, Dennis Formation (Stark Shale Member) - Missouri

 

6. Ankylosaurus magniventris tooth - Late Cretaceous Period, Lower Hell Creek Formation (Triceratops horridus zone) - Garfield County, Montana

 

[LiamL]

Would love to see the bird when prepped.

[Randyw]

Some really great entrees this month!

Edited August 1 by Randyw
Question removed

[Jaybot]

The stark shale specimen is a blob of material, not just the denticle and tooth.

It's a disarticulated section of the Listracanthus.

’Fish blob’ so to speak  

 

 

Feel free to delete this comment once the listing for this find is amended

Edited August 1 by Jaybot

[digit]

Gotcha! Blob it is.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[trilobites_are_awesome]

Awesome entries guys!

[DPS Ammonite]

I hope that we will get to see the bird fully prepped out; it could be a fossil-of-the-year contender.