September 2010 Invertebrate/plant Find Of The Month

[JohnJ]

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the International Battle of the Invertebrates! Which one do you think deserves the title?

The poll ends on Monday, October 5th. You can also vote in our other Poll HERE.

1. Burmeisterella armata trilobite - (Devonian Lower Emsian stage) - Koblenz, Germany

2. Agariocrinus splendens crinoid – (Mississippian Edwardsville Formation) – IN, USA

3. Ormastralium fimbriatum gastropod – (Early Pliocene Zanclean stage) – South Spain

4. Unknown cephalopod with trilobite fragment – (Ordovician Billings Formation) – Ottawa, Canada

5. Oolopygus pyriformis echinoids in flint nodule – (Upper Cretaceous – Maastrichtian Romontbos horizon) - Eben-emael, Belgium

6. Unknown ammonoid – (Middle Devonian) – IA, USA

7. Astrodapsis spatiosus sand dollars in matrix – (Miocene Santa Margarita Sandstone) – CA, USA

8. Honeycomb coral – (Ordovician) – Ontario, Canada

9. Zacanthoides typicalis with 2 Glossopleura bion and a small Achlysopsis sp. trilobite slab – (Cambrian Spence Shale Formation) – UT, USA

10. Phacops sp. trilobite – (Devonian Arkona Formation) – Ontario, Canada

11. Sinosura kelheimense starfish slab – (Upper Jurassic Malm zeta formation) - Bavaria, Germany

[Terry Dactyll]

Very tough month.... I'm particularily impressed with the sand dollars in matrix, the gastropod and the USA trilobite slab but the Crinoid head is awsome and just pips it for me.... Good luck everyone....

[Fossildude19]

Another tough month!

It's amazing the variety/quality of things that were found by our members!

Good luck to all!

[palaeopix]

Needed a three headed coin this month!!!. All kidding aside I narrowed my choices down to three: Crinoid Queen's spectacular crinoid, Brock's equally spectacular trilobite multiple plate and Peter's fantastically detailed Phacops. My pick by a hair is Brock's trilobite plate, simply because it is a spectacular (and rare) association of three choice species.

[Ordovician_Odyssey]

this was really hard but Peters trilo got my vote

[Scylla]

Needed a three headed coin this month!!!. All kidding aside I narrowed my choices down to three: Crinoid Queen's spectacular crinoid, Brock's equally spectacular trilobite multiple plate and Peter's fantastically detailed Phacops. My pick by a hair is Brock's trilobite plate, simply because it is a spectacular (and rare) association of three choice species.

Have to agree, but I went with the crinoid in the end.

[frozen_turkey]

I fell in love with the crinoid

[Procynosuchus]

I was wavering between the crinoid and the brittlestars, but then i voted the crinoid both for the unusual position and for the wonderful preparation.