Tag: Carboniferous
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Fossil Friday #102: Kellibrooksia macrogaster x 3!
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #102. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! This week’s Fossil Friday is three specimens…
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Mazon Monday #105: Kellibrooksia macrogaster
This is Mazon Monday post #105. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Kellibrooksia macrogaster is a species of mantis shrimp (stomatopods). It was described by Frederick Schram in 1973. Frederick Schram described many of the shrimp of Mazon Creek. We had a nice one for sale at the ESCONI Gem, Mineral,…
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Fossil Friday #101: Mazon Creek Aquatic Plants
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #101. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! The last section of “A Comprehensive Guide…
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Mazon Monday #104: Mid-century Mazon Creek
This is Mazon Monday post #104. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. We recently received an interesting link from ESCONI member Kristi Overgaard of a post on the Geology World group on Facebook. The post was by James Anderson and it described an transaction with Dr. Wilbur Hoff’s son. Dr. Hoff…
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Fossil Friday #100: Lyginopteris hoeninghaus
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #100. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! Wow, 100 posts… we are no over…
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Mazon Monday #103: Asterophyllites equisetiformis
This is Mazon Monday post #103. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Today, we look at another part of the plant Calamites. Recall that paleobotany uses form genera as a strategy to identify plant parts. If you aren’t familiar with the concept, there is a good explanation in the “Keys to…
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Fossil Friday #99: Tully Monster!
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #99. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! Our first Mazon Monday was about the…
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Mazon Monday #102: Eoscorpius carbonarius
This is Mazon Monday post #102. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Scorpions are very rare in the Mazon Creek fossil biota. Eoscorpius carbonarius was described by FB. Meek and A.H. Worthen in 1868. The paper was published in the America Journal of Sciences – “Meek, Fielding B. & A. H.…
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Fossil Friday #98: Missouri Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #98. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri, a seed fern, is up…
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Mazon Monday #101: Peggy Macnamara
This is Mazon Monday post #101. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The cover of the book “A Comprehensive Guide to the Fossil Flora of Mazon Creek” by Jack Wittry features a painting of a fiddlehead, which is an immature fern frond. The fiddlehead species in the Mazon Creek biota are…
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Fossil Friday #97: Kentucky Neuropteris
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #97. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! Carboniferous seed fern fossils are on the…
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Mazon Monday #100: Odontopteris subcuneata
This is Mazon Monday post #100. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. This is the 100th Mazon Monday post! We hope you are enjoying these posts! If you have any suggestions or feedback, please send it along to email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Odontopteris subcuneata was a seed fern that belonged to the same group…
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Fossil Friday #96: Mazon Creek Insect Nymph
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #96. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! We have another Mazon Creek insect this…
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Mazon Monday #99: Calamostachys, sp.
This is Mazon Monday post #99. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. —————————————————– Calamostachys is the cone portion of Calamites. Recall the Langford diagram which details the parts of Calamites. The round seed like part of these cones are actually sporagia, which Calamites used to reproduce. Calamites are horsetails. Their closest…
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Fossil Friday #95: Mazon Creek Winged Insect – Diaphanopterodea
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #95. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! This absolutely stunning Mazon Creek insect comes…
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Mazon Monday #98: Natural History of Coal Age Fossils
This is Mazon Monday post #98. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. George Langford’s second book, “The Wilmington Coal Fauna and Additions to the Wilmington Coal Flora from a Pennsylvanian Deposit in Will County, Illinois”, was published by Esconi Associates in 1963. As part of the publication of the book, Stella…
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How we discovered a rare giant millipede fossil on a beach, and why it matters
This story on phys.org tell the story about the discovery of a giant millipede, Arthropleura in Engand in January 2018.. The original story describing the 326 million year old millipede fossil appeared back in December 2021. The animal was about 2.7 meters long (nearly 9 feet!). It lived during the Carboniferous Period in what is…
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Fossil Friday #94: Diaphorodendron rimosum
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #94. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! We haven’t posted enough fossil wood on…
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Mazon Monday #97: “Historical Perspective on Early Twentieth Century Carboniferous Paleobotany in North American”
The book “Historical Perspective on Early Twentieth Century Carboniferous Paleobotany in North American” was published in 1995 by the Geological Society of America (GSA). It’s dedicated as a memorial volume for William Culp Darrah (1909-1989), who was a pioneer in the study of the Carboniferous of North America. The book is freely available on Google…
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Mazon Monday #96: Pennsylvanian Plant Fossils of Illinois
This is Mazon Monday post #96. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The book “Pennsylvanian Plant Fossils of Illinois” was #6 in the Educational Series published by the Illinois State Geological Survey in 1960. It was written by Charles Collinson (1923 – 2011) and Romayne Skartvedt. The book can be purchased…
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Fossil Friday #92: Mazon Creek Mystery
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #92. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! Today, we have the first of a…
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Mazon Monday #95: Neuropteris vermicularis
This is Mazon Monday post #95. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. For this post, we are looking at another seed fern species, Neuropteris vermicularis. N. vermicularis was identified by Leo Lesquereux in 1866. He described much of the North American Carboniferous flora in the mid 1800’s as a consultant to…
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Fossil Friday #91: Paleocaris typus from the Mazon River
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #91. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! Back in Mazon Monday #65, we spotlighted…
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Mazon Monday #94: Calamites cistii
This is Mazon Monday post #94. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. For this week, we are looking at Calamites, which is a genus of extinct arborescent (tree-like) horsetails. They are sphenopsids. Modern horsetails, genus Equistem, are fairly closely related. Some of these Carboniferous plants could grow to heights of more than…
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Fossil Friday #90: Asterophyllites equisetiformis
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #90. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! This week’s fossil is a specimen of…
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Mazon Monday #93: Dr. Victoria McCoy: Mazon Creek Fossils
This is Mazon Monday post #93. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. ESCONI member Ralph Jewell sent me this link for a video of a presentation by Dr. Victoria McCoy of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Department of Geosciences. Her presentation is entitled “Mazon Creek Fossils”. Dr. Victoria McCoy, UWM Department…
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Mazon Monday #92: Illilepas damrowi
This is Mazon Monday post #92. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Illilepas damrowi is a gooseneck barnacle from the Mazon Creek biota, found in Essex localities like Pit 11. Barnacles are crustaceans thus they are related to crabs and lobsters. They are fairly rare in the fossil record with the…
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Fossil Friday #88: Trigonocarpus seeds
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #88. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! Back in Mazon Monday #67, we took…
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Mazon Monday #91: Macroneuropteris macrophylla
This is Mazon Monday post #91. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Today, we have a seed fern species called Macroneuopteris macrophylla. It was named Neuropteris macrophylla in 1831 by Alexander Brongniart, a French chemist, mineralogist, geologist, paleontologist, and zoologist. It was mistakenly renamed as Neuropteris clarksoni by Leo Lesquereux in…
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Fossil Friday #87: Neuropteris vermicularis from Knob Noster
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #87. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! We’ve got a Pennsylvanian seed fern for…
