Tag: centipede
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Fossil Friday #266: Latzelia primordialis
Alan Keith sent us photos of his recent centipede find from Pit 11. He collected this concretion this spring on one of his trips up north from Texas. Centipedes are one of the rarest animals in the Mazon Creek fossil deposit. An estimate of occurrence for centipedes was about 3 in 287,000 concretions in the…
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Fossil Friday #172: Mazoscolopendra richardsoni
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #172. 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! Centipedes are one of the rarest of…
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Mazon Monday #47: Centipedes
This is Mazon Monday post #47. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. For this week, we have a very rare Mazon Creek animal. The estimate of occurrence for centipedes was about 3 in 287,000 concretions in the paper “Relative Abundance of Different Mazon Creek Organisms” by Gordon C. Baird and John…
