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May 2012 Finds Of The Month


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Entries will be taken through May until midnight on June 1st. Please make sure to follow all of the rules for entries.

To view the Winning Fossils from past contests visit the Find Of The Month Winner's Gallery.

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Rules for The Fossil Forum's Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month Contests

1. You find a great Vertebrate Fossil or Invertebrate/Plant Fossil! Only fossils found by you.

2. Post your entry in the Find of the Month topic. Use a separate post for each entry.

3. Your Fossil must have been found during the Month of the Contest, or the significant Preparation of your Fossil must have been

completed during the Month of the Contest.

4. You must include the Date of your Discovery or the Date of Preparation Completion.

5. You must include the common or scientific name.

6. You must include the Geologic Age or Geologic Formation where the Fossil was found.

7. Play fair. No bought fossils.

Shortly after the end of the Month, separate Polls will be created for the Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month. The maximum entries allowed by the Polling software will be selected for each contest by the staff.

In addition to the fun of a contest, we also want to learn more about the Fossils. So, only entries posted with a CLEAR photo and that meet the other guidelines will be placed into the Poll.

Within a few days, we will know the two winning Finds of the Month! Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry!

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Never having submitted an entry before I am going to give a stab at it since I have been encouraged by others to do so. This fossil is being submitted in the Invertebrate category and was found on May 4, 2012 and cleaned up in the following week.

The fossil submitted is

Eurypterus lacustris

Williamsville "A" Formation

Bertie waterlime

Stevensville, Ontario, Canada

The specimen is an essentatially complete part and almost complete counterpart with minimal preparation other than cleaning and of course the extensive glueing and repair of the 12 pieces of the counterpart. All visible fossil is original and not restored or composite.

The eurypterid itself is slightly over 6 inches in length with the exact measurements being:

45 mm at the widest point

151 mm straight line head to end of tail

44 mm tail length

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The complete story and additional pictures can be found http://www.thefossil...nt-ever-give-up

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Malcomt,

Absolutely beautiful - I know exactly where my vote will go this month! :wub:

Congratulations!

Regards,

EDIT: PS- great job on restoring the counterpart, as well! ;)

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That's the invert category wrapped up, lets see the vert material.

There's no limit to what you can accomplish when you're supposed to be doing something else

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that may be the nicest eurypterus Ive ever seen, Nice find!!!

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Thankyou V., it was a shame that it was totally covered under two bedding planes and that the first chisel blow destroyed the white section of the counterpart beyond any means of salvage. I will eventually cover the white section with powdered matrix so that it blends in better.

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Wow that will be hard to beat... well done Malcolm!

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Thankyou V., it was a shame that it was totally covered under two bedding planes and that the first chisel blow destroyed the white section of the counterpart beyond any means of salvage. I will eventually cover the white section with powdered matrix so that it blends in better.

I think you did very well with it, all things considered. I've wondered how you manage to find anything intact, considering what you have to go though to get at the fossils. I imagine the people with saws must occasionally slice right through otherwise great specimens.

It's hard to imagine what could top this fossil for IFOTM.

Don

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I revisited the area around Ningcheng and had enough time to take a more intense "look" at the drywall where I found the Scorpion fly which was the winning Invertebrate / Plant find in December http://www.thefossil...d-of-the-month/

Finally, I could take the drywall apart (even with the help of the owner after I gave him some money). This time it was not a single invertebrate but a small salamander instead:

Chunerpeton tianyiensis Gao & Shubin 2003

Daohugou Formation

Early Cretaceous to Middle Jurassic

Ningcheng

Nei Mongol

China

Found on April, 27th

The age of the Daohugou beds has been debated and a number of studies have reached conflicting conclusions. Various papers have placed the fossils here as being anywhere from the Middle Jurassic period to the Early Cretaceous period.

The white spot in front of the snout seems to be either a coprolite or a regurgitated prey.

The length snout - pelvis is around 48mm or just under 2".

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Sorry, the contrast is not really good.

Thomas

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I can already see I have no chance with those finds.... but I will post it anyway.

Gryphaea

Bedfordshire UK

70 - 90 myo

Around 5cm

Before Prep

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Almost finished

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Done! Finished yesterday.

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Never having submitted an entry before I am going to give a stab at it since I have been encouraged by others to do so. This fossil is being submitted in the Invertebrate category and was found on May 4, 2012 and cleaned up in the following week.

The fossil submitted is

Eurypterus lacustris

Williamsville "A" Formation

Bertie waterlime

Stevensville, Ontario, Canada

The specimen is an essentatially complete part and almost complete counterpart with minimal preparation other than cleaning and of course the extensive glueing and repair of the 12 pieces of the counterpart. All visible fossil is original and not restored or composite.

The eurypterid itself is slightly over 6 inches in length with the exact measurements being:

45 mm at the widest point

151 mm straight line head to end of tail

44 mm tail length

post-4886-0-39422000-1336509593_thumb.jpg post-4886-0-23809600-1336509607_thumb.jpg

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The complete story and additional pictures can be found http://www.thefossil...nt-ever-give-up

It should be named ''Eurypterus REX''. It's actually a REX (or REGINA?) :o :o :o

How couldn't I give up??? This museum quality find has removed any of my thoughts for an IPFOTM contest entry :drool:

Congratulations, Malcolm :thumbsu:

Astrinos P. Damianakis

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Astron based on the local that it was found it is most likely female. This specimen at 116 mm from tip of head to start of telson (tail) which is right at the average body size for specimens found in this location (average 114mm per Vrazo). Female specimens from this area outnumber males 2 to 1.

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I revisited the area around Ningcheng and had enough time to take a more intense "look" at the drywall where I found the Scorpion fly which was the winning Invertebrate / Plant find in December http://www.thefossil...d-of-the-month/

Finally, I could take the drywall apart (even with the help of the owner after I gave him some money). This time it was not a single invertebrate but a small salamander instead:

Chunerpeton tianyiensis Gao & Shubin 2003

Daohugou Formation

Early Cretaceous to Middle Jurassic

Ningcheng

Nei Mongol

China

Found on April, 27th

The age of the Daohugou beds has been debated and a number of studies have reached conflicting conclusions. Various papers have placed the fossils here as being anywhere from the Middle Jurassic period to the Early Cretaceous period.

The white spot in front of the snout seems to be either a coprolite or a regurgitated prey.

The length snout - pelvis is around 48mm or just under 2".

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Sorry, the contrast is not really good.

Thomas

Nice find Thomas!!!

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Extremely nice salamander..... wish we could find vertebrates around here!!!!!!

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I revisited the area around Ningcheng and had enough time to take a more intense "look" at the drywall where I found the Scorpion fly which was the winning Invertebrate / Plant find in December http://www.thefossil...d-of-the-month/

Finally, I could take the drywall apart (even with the help of the owner after I gave him some money). This time it was not a single invertebrate but a small salamander instead:

Chunerpeton tianyiensis Gao & Shubin 2003

Daohugou Formation

Early Cretaceous to Middle Jurassic

Ningcheng

Nei Mongol

China

Found on April, 27th

The age of the Daohugou beds has been debated and a number of studies have reached conflicting conclusions. Various papers have placed the fossils here as being anywhere from the Middle Jurassic period to the Early Cretaceous period.

The white spot in front of the snout seems to be either a coprolite or a regurgitated prey.

The length snout - pelvis is around 48mm or just under 2".

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post-2081-0-19450500-1336538158_thumb.jp

Sorry, the contrast is not really good.

Thomas

Thomas,

What a splendid find! :drool:

I find myself wondering if you are extremely skilled,...extremely lucky, ... or both? :o :greenwnvy:

Well done sir!

Congratulations on this spectacular salamander!

Regards,

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I find myself wondering if you are extremely skilled,...extremely lucky, ... or both? :o

Regards,

Skilled I would doubt, but I am sort of persistent, greedy and may be also lucky. And in this case it was really easy – almost heaven for any collector. The dry wall was about 8m long and 1m in height – so plenty of shale waiting for me to be split. Almost no effort. I should have made a picture of the dry wall before and after.

Thomas

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Just dropped in for a look-see. Malcolm, that's a whopper! And Thomas are you ever persistant! This is already gonna be a hard choice.

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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Found on 5/11/2012.

This is my first Blastoid find and the purplish color really makes it pop.

mikey

Correction - This is Devonoblastus leda not Hyperoblastus. Thanks to George McIntosh of the RMSC for the right ID.

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Here is an uncommon fossil for this particular quarry from Silurian:

Gastropod

Lincoln Quarry

May 12, 2012

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Not that i stand a chance VS the sea scorpion, but their goes my entry for this month.

Yet another pyritized ammonite

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Last one had a nice silver aspect, this one look more like bronze.

Name Cardioceras praecordatum

Era :Upper Jurassic / Lower Oxfordian

Location :Houlgate (les Vaches Noires / Normandy

Size 3 cm

edited : after some more search appears to be praecordatum and not cordatum

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  • 3 weeks later...

Due to the Forum being down for the last half of the entry period, we're going to allow entries until the 4th of June. The entries still must have been found in May. Hurry up and post them!

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My vertebrate entry :

Found May 20, 20112

Rare Fish spine

From Hungry Hollow ON

Mid Devonian

Hamilton Group

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Dr John Long "Its a tricky one -looks osteichthyan to me (not placoderm, definitely not shark), with dermal ridges on one end, possibly something from the shoulder gridle, (? dipnoan style anocliethrum?) but hard to pin down further without (a) examining it in person and ( B) getting it out of the rock to show both sides." concurred similar observations by Dr. Carole Burrow (Queensland Museum).

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Ok, Cris, thanks!!

Nice spine, Peter!!

Here is my entry. A 23 cm long pipefish syngnathus sp. and a 13 cm partial bonyfish (part and counterpart).

Late miocene. Found on 01 of May 2012 in Crete island, Greece.

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Astrinos P. Damianakis

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