December 2011 Invertebrate / Plant Find Of The Month

[JohnJ]

I will bet your “find” never dreamed it would end up in your collection. Then again, none of these fossils dreamed about much of anything. However, your vote could help fulfill someone’s dream for IPFOTM.

The poll ends on Friday, January 6^th. You can also vote in our other Poll HERE.

1. Fossil wood – (Triassic Dockum Group) – TX, USA

2. Thuja sp. cone [part & counterpart] – (Late Miocene) – Middle Crete Island, Greece

3. Trimerus delphinocephalus trilobite – (Middle Silurian Clinton group, Rochester shale) – NY, USA

4. Horn coral plate – (Ordovician Plateville Formation) – WI, USA

5. Pentremites sp. blastoid – (Mississippian St. Genevieve Limestone) – AL, USA

6. Sparganium antiquum bur-reed flowering head – (Paleocene Fort Union Formation) – MT, USA

7. Multi-species plant seed matrix – (Late Miocene) – Middle Crete Island, Greece

8. Mecoptera non det., Scorpionfly – (Lower Cretaceous Daohugou Formation) – Nei Mongol, China

9. Ostracod - (Middle Devonian Hamilton Group) – Ontario, Canada

10. Gibbithyris ellipsoidali brachiopod – (Late Cretaceous) – Bedfordshire, UK

11. Inoceramus sp. clam – (Late Cretaceous) – Bedfordshire, UK

12. Bryozoan – (Mississippian Pitkin Limestone) – AR, USA

13. Kaskia chesterensis trilobite – (Upper Mississippian, Chesterian, lower Bangor Limestone) – AL, USA

[squalicorax]

another really good month

[JohnJ]

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