Tag: cnidarian
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Mazon Monday #306: Drevotella proteana
This is Mazon Monday post #306. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Drevotella proteana is believed to be a hydrozoan. It lived during the Pennsylvanian Period. Fossils of this soft-bodied animal are known only from the Mazon Creek fossil deposit, where exceptional preservation allows such delicate organisms to be recorded. Hydrozoans…
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Mazon Monday #278: Anthracomedusa turnbulli
This is Mazon Monday post #278. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Lacking hard parts, jellyfish are rare in the fossil record. Mazon Creek has a few species of them. One of the most common animal fossils found in Mazon Creek is Essexella asherae, which only recently was reclassified as a…
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Fossil Friday #231: Classic Essexella asherae
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #231. 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! Ah, the Blob! Did you see Mazon…
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Fossil Friday #188: Essexella asherae
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #188. 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! In the marine areas of the Mazon…
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These 508-Million-Year-Old Fossils May Be Earth’s Oldest Swimming Jellyfish
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about ancient jellyfish… fossilized jellyfish. One of our favorite fossil localities, Mazon Creek, has abundant jellyfish fossils, but otherwise jellyfish are quite rare in the fossil record. A recent paper in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B described a new jellyfish, Burgessomedusa phasmiformis, which hales from British Columbia, Canada.…
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Fossil Friday #158: Helen Asher Cnidarian
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #158. 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 historically significant Mazon…
