March 2011 Invertebrate / Plant Find Of The Month

[JohnJ]

We have a full plate of 1st class finds this month - complete with some garnish. Which one deserves the title IPFOTM?

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

1. Micraster coranguinum pyritized echinoid – (Upper Cretaceous / Turonian) – Northern France

2. Echinocorys sp. echinoid - (Upper Cretaceous / Turonian) – Northern France

3. Pleurocystites cystoids with Isotomocrinus crinoid crown – (Ordovician age Bobcaygeon Formation) – Ontario, Canada

4. Phoenix theophrastii date palm leaves – (Late Miocene) - Middle Crete island, Greece

5. Eccoptochile mariana trilobite – (Dariwillian [Ordovician]) – France

6. Insect trackway – (Pennsylvanian) – MA, USA

7. Lepidesthes sp. echinoid fragment w/crinoid segment – (Pennsylvanian) – TX, USA

8. Raninella tridens crab – (Upper Cretaceous Ripley Formation) – MS, USA

9. Thaleops ovata trilobite – (Ordovician Platteville Formation) – WI, USA

10. Jeletzkytes criptonodosus ammonite – (Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale) – WY, USA

11. Kallidecthes richardsoni shrimp – (Mazon Creek Pennsylvanian Francis Creek Shale) – IL, USA

12. Aphorrais pespelecani gastropod – (Pliocene) - Guidonia, Italy

13. St. Clair fern impression – (Pennsylvanian) – PA, USA

14. Reticulatia (Dictyoclostus) sp. brachiopod – (Pennsylvanian) – TX, USA

[pleecan]

Good luck Kevin... that is a beautiful fossil plate.

PL

Edited April 2, 2011 by pleecan

[fossilman7]

wow, last month, i had it easy. ur work is cut out for u everyoone. good luck!

[dhk]

MAN... I have a dog in this hunt and I am having a hard time choosing. Good luck to everyone, great finds everyone.

[piranha]

My vote has been placed for the best,

Uninformed are the rest I suggest,

A few are quite superb,

Although no Phoenix bird,

Astrinos should win I protest !!

[astron]

Your proposal friend Scott

really honors me a lot

Every one of this month find

has won on my mind

[Diplotomodon]

At first that trilobite looked quite honorary

But to the ammonite it looked secondary

And a trackway Insecta

Which I thought was the best'a

Oh dang, look at that pespelecani!

As evidenced by the (bad ) sentences above, it is an agonizing choice.

[Terry Dactyll]

One vote only.... How do you pick one from that lot ... Good luck everyone