April 2012 Vertebrate Find Of The Month

[Cris]

Surprise! I'll be hosting the FOTM contests for a while. Looks like a lot of our members had some good success in April. Vote for the fossil you think deserves to win.

The poll ends on Sunday, May 6^th. You can vote in our other poll HERE.

1. Enaliarctine Pinniped Skull – (Miocene Astoria Formation) – OR, USA

2. Palaelodus bird egg shell fragments – (Oligocene) – France

3. Mastodon Tooth & Tusk – (Pleistocene) – TX, USA

4. Paleolagus haydeni rabbit skull & bones- (Oligocene White River Formation) – WY, USA

5. Porpoise skull – (Miocene Astoria Fm.) – OR, USA

6. Protitanichthys Placoderm Armor - (Mid Devonian Hungry Hollow Formation) – Canada

7. Carcharodon carcharias shark tooth – (Miocene) – SC, USA

8. Limnomis delaneyi partial fish – (Upper Devonian Catskill Formation) - PA, USA

9. Carcharodon carcharias shark tooth – (Pliocene Lillo formation) – Belgium

10. Parotodus benedeni shark tooth – (Mid Miocene Round Mountain Silt Formation) – CA, USA

[Auspex]

Cris, thank you for taking this on; it is a tremendous amount of work, and has become an important part of the Forum. JohnJ certainly deserves a break from it, but I was groaning under the weight of possibly having to try to keep it going myself.

Three cheers to John for having created and administered our finest feature, and to you for making it possible to continue!

[Bullsnake]

Cris, thank you for taking this on; it is a tremendous amount of work, and has become an important part of the Forum. Three cheers to John for having created and administered our finest feature, and to you for making it possible to continue!

I hope John will still be visiting!

I salute all the admins and mods. Y'all are great!

Now, the pressure of voting

[astron]

Thank you so much John and Cris and everyone else of the admins and mods for the neat job and for your great contributions to the Forum :bow: Moreover to you Chas for your words of wisdom

Very nice finds and this month

Good luck everyone

[jpc]

Yes, thanks to all for taking care of this over the years... and as someone else said...on to the voting.

[Shamalama]

Thanks John for all the hard work! And thank you to Cris for taking on the responsibilities.

[Fossildude19]

Thank you, Cris and John! And also to all the rest of the Admin/mod team!

Your hard work and dedication are well appreciated.

Regards,

[Terry Dactyll]

Great finds guys... well done and good luck

[VisionXray23]

I am unfairly biased for sharks teeth so I'm not so sure I should vote. Great finds everyone!

[astron]

Great finds guys... well done and good luck