JohnJ Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 The Winner of the June 2011 Vertebrate Find Of The Month is an Unidentified marine bird skull from the Miocene/Pliocene Tangahoe Formation of New Zealand! A year ago Dave (POM) Allen won his first VFOTM award; today he wins his third one with another outstanding personal find! Congratulations, Dave! Thanks to everyone else that shared your finds and knowledge. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Congratulations Dave! Let us know once the identity of the skull has been established... may be it is a new species : ) PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLB Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 great job you got my vote :ph34r: don't tell though!! it is a really nice peace!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Congratulations, Dave! Very impressive find! Best wishes, Roger Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Congratulations, Dave . Magnificent find and prep indeed :Bananasaur: Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Dave...Congratulations Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alopias Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 very nice find , congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Congrats Dave. That's an awesome specimen you have there. I haven't seen very many bird skulls before. Say, that's two months in a row now that a "bird" related fossil won VFOTM. Last month was Nando's Bird Egg, and now a skull. At that pace, someone this month is probably going to find a whole articulated bird skeleton! I hope Rick enter's his 3" GW from GMR.... vr, Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshunter Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 No doubt that is one awsome fossil find and a deserved win--Tom Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!"Don't Tread On Me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Great great fossil, well deserverd victory the dolphin skull was also a fantastic competitor congrats both Nando Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 WTG! I really you bird skull. It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Congrats Dave. I never seen this kind of fossil in real. Very nice fossil and prep. Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Pareidolia : here Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullsnake Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Congratulations! Awesome specimen Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave pom Allen Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Thanks everybody for all the kind words. this has been looked at by A Tennison of TePapa(museum of New Zealand) his concussion is that it is a species of extinct small albatross with a very slender beak with more identification needed.while here visiting he also identified a skull that of a possible Pelagornithidae also a pelvis not found anywhere before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Thanks everybody for all the kind words. this has been looked at by A Tennison of TePapa(museum of New Zealand) his concussion is that it is a species of extinct small albatross with a very slender beak with more identification needed.while here visiting he also identified a skull that of a possible Pelagornithidae also a pelvis not found anywhere before. Outstanding! I don't know quite what else to say, except that this is very exciting, and congratulations :Thumbs Up: "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...
Frank Menser Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 The Winner of the June 2011 Vertebrate Find Of The Month is an Unidentified marine bird skull from the Miocene/Pliocene Tangahoe Formation of New Zealand! A year ago Dave (POM) Allen won his first VFOTM award; today he wins his third one with another outstanding personal find! Congratulations, Dave! Thanks to everyone else that shared your finds and knowledge. Sorry I missed the voting. Just too Cool! But lock it up if Auspex says he's coming for a visit Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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