October 2010 Invertebrate/plant Find Of The Month

[JohnJ]

Canada offers most of this month’s selections, but will one of those fossils be your favorite?

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

1. Crossotheca crepinii positive and negative primitive tree fragment - (Upper Carboniferous Bolsovian) - Osnabruck, Germany

2. Pyritized orthocone cephalopod – (Ordovician Billings Formation) – Ontario, Canada

3. Unknown bryozoans in matrix – (Ordovician Lindsay Formation) – Ontario, Canada

4. Hyperoblastus reimanni blastoid – (Middle Devonian Hungry Hollow member of the Widder Formation - Givetian) – Ontario, Canada

5. Archinacella patelliformis Monoplacophoran “cap shell” mollusk – (Upper Ordovician Verulam Formation) - Ontario, Canada

6. Unknown carbonized Plant – (Early Silurian) – Ontario, Canada

7. Pulalius vulgaris crab – (late Miocene or early Oligocene) – WA, USA

8. Aporrhaidae gastropod – (late Cretaceous) – CA, USA

9. Unknown Crinoid calyx – (Devonian Coralville Formation) – IA, USA

[Terry Dactyll]

Crossotheca crepinii .... Gets my vote although that crab.... WOW....

Best of luck everyone...

[frozen_turkey]

I swear i start to drool each time i see that crab...

And everyone else did a very nice job this month im impressed.

-Frozen

[Ordovician_Odyssey]

woo hoo, go canada!

but great finds every. the choice was very hard.

[bear-dog]

Tough choosing this month,but that crab is so awesome,Ive nearly worn out my computer switching back to look at it again.Again great find on that crab.

[Acryzona]

The crab is beautiful, but I've got to tip my "cap" to the little guy...