This is Throwback Thursday #188. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks!
Today, we take another peek into the Field Museum Photo Archive over on Tumblr. The subject is “Fossil Friday” and “Mazon Creek:, because who can get enough of these beauties?!?
Fossil Friday, Fossil plants and insects.
© The Field Museum, GEO80953.Wilmington Paleo and Mazon Creek specimens, leaves, insects. Collected by Mr. George Langford.
8×10 negative
10/1/1950
Fossil Friday, sphenopsid, Annularia stellata.
© The Field Museum, GEO81011.Fossil sphenopsid, Annularia stellata. Fossil plants in concretions from Pennsylvanian deposits. Mazon Creek locality, Will County, IL.
Annularia are the leaf whorls of an extinct horsetail.8×10 negative
12/20/1950
Fossil Friday, Fossil spiders and plants.
© The Field Museum, GEO80939.Arachnid (spider) Wilmington Paleo and Mazon Creek fossil [invertebrate] insect Geology specimen. Collected by Mr. George Langford.
8×10 negative
10/1/1950
Fossil Friday, Fossil tree bark.
© The Field Museum, CSB75412, Photographer Dawson.Lepidophloios, Fossil tree bark. Carboniferous Forest diorama detail.
5×7 negative
1932
Fossil Friday, Plant and insect fossils. Check out the amazingly detailed leaf specimen on the left.
© The Field Museum, GEO80951.Wilmington Paleo and Mazon Creek mixed specimens; leaves and insects. Collected by Mr. George Langford
8×10 cellulose acetate negative
10/1/1950
Carboniferous Forest diorama. If you watched Cosmos last weekend they talked all about how trees and other plant life put an overabundance of oxygen in the air, causing the insects to grow to extreme sizes. The Field Museum’s Carboniferous Forest is located in the Evolving Plant exhibition.
© The Field Museum, CSB75409.Dragonfly, Calamites, etc. Center, right section Carboniferous Forest diorama detail, Hall 38.
8×10 negative
1932
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