Tag: fossil
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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that details the story of the donation of the original notebook manuscripts of the two original Langford books and the unpublished book three.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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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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Fossil Friday #66: Galena Cephalopods
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #66. 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! ESCONI Paleontology Study Leader John Cataloni sent…
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ScienceMag: Giant tsunami from dino-killing asteroid impact revealed in fossilized ‘megaripples’
Science Magazine has a piece about some “megaripples” found in central Louisiana. These fossilized trace fossils are thought to be from the tsunami caused by the meteor which brought about the KPg mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period about 66 million years ago. A new paper in the journal Earth and Planetary…
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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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Fossil Friday #65: Waldron Shale Echinoderms
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #65. 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 Friday we have some beautiful echinoderms…
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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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Park Ranger Stumbles Upon Treasure Trove of Several-Million-Year-Old Fossils in Northern California
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about the discovery of some Miocene fossils in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. The eight million year old fossils were discovered by Park ranger and naturalist Greg Francek while patrolling the Mokelumne River Watershed. The treasure trove consists of petrified wood, a mastodon skull, a rhino skeleton, a giant…
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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”
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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Roadtrippers: Kansas is a fossil hunter’s paradise—here’s how and where to explore it
Roadtripper’s magazine has a story about fossil hunting in Kansas. The article is a good summary of general areas. It mentions the Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas. This formation was laid down by the Western Interior Seaway (WIP), which covered the central US and extended from the Gulf of Mezico to the Arctic, during the…
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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…
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Fossil Friday #60: Calymene celebra
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #60. 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 trilobite for…
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Mazon Monday #63: Braceville Field Trip Report
This is Mazon Monday post #63. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. This spring’s field trip to the Braceville spoil pile started as a cool, cloudy day with a chance of rain. 45 members chanced the weather to collect Mazon Creek fossil concretions. Around 10:30, a steady, but light, drizzle fell…
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Fossil Friday #59: Neuropteris inflata
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #59. 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! Another Chowder Flatts fossil is our feature…
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Mazon Monday #62: Common Descent Podcast Episode 110 – Mazon Creek Fossil Beds
This is Mazon Monday post #62. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. “Common Descent” is a podcast about paleontology, biology, and evolution. The hosts are David Moscato and Will Harris, who are paleontologists and science communicators. As it says on their website, they “love talking about fossils, evolution, and life history” …
