Tag: Carboniferous
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Fossil Friday #76: Pennsylvanian Shark Tooth
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #76. 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! For this week, we have a rare…
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Mazon Monday #79: Braceville Field Trip (Mazon Creek) Report
This is Mazon Monday post #79. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Here is the field trip report for the Braceville Fall Field Trip, written by ESCONI President Keith Robitschek. The September field trips to the Braceville spoil pile started with Saturday and Sunday being mostly sunny and rather warm for…
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Fossil Friday #75: Mazon Creek Eurypterid
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #75. 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 a repeat contributor this week…
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Mazon Monday #78: Amynilyspes wortheni
This is Mazon Monday post #78. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Today, we are having a look at Amynilyspes wortheni, an extinct species of pill millipede. A. wortheni was described by Samuel Hubbard Scudder in 1882, a giant in the field of fossil insects and other arthropods during the 1800’s. The…
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Fossil Friday #74: Belotelson magister
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #74. 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 both a nice fossil…
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Mazon Monday #77: Care and Feeding of Your Mazon Creek Concretions
This is Mazon Monday post #77. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. —————————————————– Today, we have a repost of Mazon Monday #27 – “Care and Feeding of Your Mazon Creek Concretions”. We are posting it to help the new members and collectors we met on the Braceville spoil pile this past…
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Fossil Friday #73: Mazon Creek Pill Millipede
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #73. 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! Mazon Creek is back this week and…
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Mazon Monday #76: Spring Braceville Field Trip Report by AJ Templer
This is Mazon Monday post #76. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. ESCONI’s mission is one of education and we love to get the kids interested in our Earth Science passions. In this case, it’s paleontology and we are hunting for Mazon Creek fossils. In order to get us ready for the…
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Mazon Monday #75: Arthrolycosa danielsi
This is Mazon Monday post #75. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. After posting James Alann’s outstanding specimen of Arthrolycosa danielsi, I was curious and had to know a little more, so I spent some time digging… The name Arthrolycosa means “wolf spider”. Specimens have been also found in the Kirov…
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Fossil Friday #71: Arthrolycosa danielsi
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #71. 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! For many collectors, spiders represent the pinnacle…
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Mazon Monday #74: Langford Book 3
This is Mazon Monday post #74. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. We recently ran across an interesting article in the July/August 1996 edition of the ESCONI newsletter that details the story of the donation of the original notebook manuscripts of the two original Langford books and the unpublished book three. …
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Fossil Friday #70: Mariopteris
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #70. 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, we have a very nice…
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Mazon Monday #73: Architarbus rotundatus
This is Mazon Monday post #73. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. For this week, we are going to cover the same species of spider we featured in our recent Fossil Friday #69, Architarbus rotundatus. Paleozoic spider-like arachnids are an interesting group. Most lack the ability to produce silk and so…
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Fossil Friday #69: Mazon Creek Spider!
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #69. 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! —————————————————– For many fossil collectors, Tully Monsters…
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Mazon Monday #72: Index of Posts
This is Mazon Monday post #72. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. We’ve been doing Mazon Monday posts for almost 1.5 years now. And. it seems like an index of posts would be helpful. Hard to believe all the topics we have covered! Let is know your favorite and any suggestions…
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Fossil Friday #68: Multi Essexella asherae
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #68. 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! Being soft bodied makes jellyfish extremely rare…
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Field Trip Report: Starved Rock Clay Pit, July 24th, 2021
Here’s a field trip report from ESCONI Vice President Dave Carlson for the Starved Rock Clay Pit field trip back on July 24th, 2021. Usually we are concerned about mud at the clay pit, but not this time. It was quite dry for this trip, even to the point where some rain would have been…
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Mazon Monday #71: Fossil Brains From a Horseshoe Crab
This is Mazon Monday post #71. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Mazon Creek is categorized as a Lagerstatte due to the extraordinary preservation. For Mazon Creek, this presentation quite often includes soft bodied animals and soft tissues. Last week, there were a whole bunch of stories about a fossilized brain…
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Fossil Friday #67: Esconichthys apopyris
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #67. 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 to Mazon Creek for this weeks…
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Mazon Monday #70: New Mazon Creek Vertebrate – Joemungandr bolti
This is Mazon Monday post #70. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Arjan Mann gave a presentation at the November 2020 ESCONI General Meeting about Mazon Creek vertebrates. Now, he’s out with a paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science that describes a new Mazon Creek tetrapod. The paper…
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Mazon Monday #69: Cyperites bicarinatus
This is Mazon Monday post #69. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Cyperites bicarinatus is a common plant found in the Mazon Creek fossil biota. They are grass-like with a rounded attachment at one end and a point at the other. The Field Museum has a specimen that is about 40…
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Mazon Monday #68: Dryptoscolex matthiesae
This is Mazon Monday post #68. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Dryptoscolex matthiesae is an annelid worm, which are part of class Polychaeta. It is known informally as the “Rat Worm”. Ida Thompson described D. matthiesae in 1979 in the paper “Errant polychaetes (Annelida) from the Pennsylvanian Essex Fauna of Northern…
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Fossil Friday #64: Cyclopteris orbicularis
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #64. 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 a nice Cyclopteris orbicularis…
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Mazon Monday #67: Trigonocarpus sp.
This is Mazon Monday post #67. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Trigonocarpus sp. was described in 1825, by Alexandre Brongniart, who was a French chemist, mineralogist, geologist, paleontologist, and zoologist back in the early 1800’s. It is the seed part of an extinct order of plants called Medullosales. In the…
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Fossil Friday #63: Paleocaris typus
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #63. 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 highlighted…
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Mazon Monday #66: Video for June 2021 Paleontology Meeting – “Collecting Mazon Creek Fossils”
This is Mazon Monday post #66. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The topic of our Paleontology Study Group meeting was “Collecting Mazon Creek Fossils”. It was presented by ESCONI President Keith Robitschek. The presentation included State Park Links, Maps, Surface Collecting Concretions, Concretion Storage, Opening, Cleaning, and Care.
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Fossil Friday #62: Trigonocarpus sp. – A Seed from Mazon Creek
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #62. 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 we have a very special…
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Mazon Monday #65: Palaeocaris typus
This is Mazon Monday post #65. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Another shrimp is up for this week’s Mazon Monday. We have Palaeocaris typus. P. typus was described way back in 1865 by Meek and Worthen. Fielding Bradford Meek (1817 – 1876) was an American geologist and paleontologist, who…
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Fossil Friday #61: Calamostachys sp. from the Danville Spoil Pile
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #61. 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 field trip to the Danville area…
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Mazon Monday #64: Essoidea epiceron
This is Mazon Monday post #64. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. For Mazon Monday this week, we have a small filter feeding shrimp, which is one of the smallest known from the Mazon Creek fossil biota, Essoidea epiceron, was described in 1974 by Dr. Frederick Schram, who has described many…
