Fossil Set AND a Lifetime Membership to NHSM

Each ticket purchased adds an entry to win the raffle. Raffle winner will receive a NHSM Lifetime Membership and a Maryland fossil set. As an NHSM Lifetime Membership (value $750) member you will receive discounts on many of our programs—from lectures, workshops, and courses offered in our museum—to canoe trips, nature walks, and fossil hunts in the great outdoors. Members also receive a discount to our annual Spring Gala. The Maryland Fossil set highlights an Otodus megalodon tooth (Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived) and an Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae, the Maryland State Fossil. Both come from the Miocene era (5.3 to 23 Million years ago) and were found at Calvert Cliffs on the Chesapeake Bay, a world-class fossil location. The Meg is an exceptional lower jaw tooth with great serrations and root that measures 3.559 inches (longest slant height). The Ecphora is a beautiful specimen of this predatory snail with well-preserved ribs and umbilicus - this is one of the first American fossils described in the scientific literature. Other Miocene fossils include another large Gastropod (Buccinofusus parilis), a Bivalve (Chlamys santamaria), a skate dental pavement (crushing teeth) (Myliobatis pachydon), and a beautiful example of a barnacle cluster (Balanus concavus). In addition, the set contains a cetacean (whale/porpoise) vertebra and hard to find left and right internal ear bones. Paleocene fossils (55-59 million years old) include both the shell and internal mold of Turritella mortoni from the Potomac River. For a complete list of fossils and details, visit: https://www.marylandnature.org/get-involved/raffle/ Cut-off date to be entered is August 31, 2020 at noon. The winner will be chosen at random and announced on the NHSM website and social media on September 1, 2020. The winner will also be notified via email.