Ordovician_Odyssey Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Shamus, I love that fish! Excellent find! Thank you very much! -Shamus The Ordovician enthusiast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Nice find Shamus.... you might want to try the freeze thaw method rather the bake and ice water technique on future nodules. PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordovician_Odyssey Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Nice find Shamus.... you might want to try the freeze thaw method rather the bake and ice water technique on future nodules. PL ok, i will.. i still 4 nodules left -Shamus The Ordovician enthusiast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 (edited) I just finished preparing this last week. This is a new species of Herpetocetus, and will soon be placed in UCMP collections at UC Berkeley. This is from the Miocene Purisima Formation of central California. It includes a partial basicranium and a well preserved petrosal. Bobby Edit: I forgot a scalebar. The entire skull is only about 10 inches wide. It's a very, very small baleen whale. Edited August 18, 2011 by Boesse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMNH Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Great fossils this month! Gonnna be a close vote...I can feel it. Well, I can't resist entering my first ever complete trilobite- Pseudogygites Latimarginatus It's very 3 dimensional and one of my best finds. Preparation completed Aug. 15 Whitby Formation- Ordovician (450 mya) In various stages of preparation: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claw Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 The nicely prepped trilobite deserves some recognition! The flower and other finds this month are amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crinoid Queen Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Those are beautiful Scott! I love the flower and the fact that side by side the halves look like a smilie face lol -CQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Those are beautiful Scott! I love the flower and the fact that side by side the halves look like a smilie face lol -CQ Thank you CQ and all the other nice comments and great entries this month! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinopaleus Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 scott that is an amazing flower!! i bet you can get any girl with that flower! hehe! shamus... beautiful fish! it must be big! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinLarry Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Man.. That Flower is awesome.. And the tiny crab is freakin awesome too.. And the fish is fantastic. hahaaa.. I LIKE THEM ALL!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordovician_Odyssey Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 scott that is an amazing flower!! i bet you can get any girl with that flower! hehe! shamus... beautiful fish! it must be big! Thanks! The head is about the size of a canadian penny which would be the same as an american penny i guess -Shamus The Ordovician enthusiast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Awesome fish Shamus (and welcome to the vertebrate club!) That flower is amazing Scott! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordovician_Odyssey Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 hehe, thanks Jim! I've been meaning join join for a while, its just i finally got to the site this month -Shamus The Ordovician enthusiast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Thanks so much Jim and everyone hooray for the Oregon fossil flower! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amaltheus Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Really love that flower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locke Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I can almost smell the flower! Amazing find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Vertebrate Entry: Carcharocles angustidens Oligocene SC 08/12/11 Very nice tooth! It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 (edited) I know that's nothing against this terrific flower and I didn't my best there... but it's enough for me, found in 2004 and finished august 2011 This one is a four in one. They are Portunus catalaunicus Via, 1941 from the Collbàs Fm. Bartonian (Eocene)of the Barcelona's province in Catalonia. Edited August 25, 2011 by MB http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Not to be repetitive, but I love that flower, great detail, and that matrix looks real hard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwin Ahoy Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Alright, so I WAS going to post my rooted Meristodonoides for this month. But this pretty much tops anything I've found to date, and a species I've been specifically searching for nearly a year to find. Very rare here, and probably moreso than I give them credit for. And it's in fantastic shape, to boot. Serratolamna serrata, from Ramanessin Brook, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Cretaceous. Found August 23, 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 (edited) I know that's nothing against this terrific flower and I didn't my best there... but it's enough for me, found in 2004 and finished august 2011 This one is a four in one. They are Portunus catalaunicus Via, 1941 from the Collbàs Fm. Bartonian (Eocene)of the Barcelona's province in Catalonia. MB you are right the flower is outstanding, but 4 in 1 crabs can compete we definitely need vertebrate, invertebrate and "vegetable" categories :) good luck everyone Edited August 26, 2011 by Nandomas Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Alright, so I WAS going to post my rooted Meristodonoides for this month. But this pretty much tops anything I've found to date, and a species I've been specifically searching for nearly a year to find. Very rare here, and probably moreso than I give them credit for. And it's in fantastic shape, to boot. Serratolamna serrata, from Ramanessin Brook, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Cretaceous. Found August 23, 2011. Wonderful Any scale? Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik m Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Vertebrate Entry: Carcharocles angustidens Oligocene SC 08/12/11 Wow just perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 (edited) Fossil coral from the Withlacoochee river in Hamilton/Madison Co. , Florida. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cnidaria Class: Anthozoa Time period: Oligocene/Miocene Age: 38/25 MYO L=12.5 CM X W=12 CM X H=6.5 CM Rescued: 8/20/11 Edited August 30, 2011 by worthy 55 It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdevey Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 we definitely need vertebrate, invertebrate and "vegetable" categories :) good luck everyone I agree! I think more members would enter their vegetable finds, if they didn't have to compete against the more popular inverts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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