Tag: FossilFriday
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Fossil Friday #228: Mazon Creek Annularia inflata
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #228. 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 a beautiful…
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Fossil Friday #227: Belotelson magister
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #227. 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! It’s Friday and that means it’s time…
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Fossil Friday #226: Acanthotelson stimpsoni from Pit 11
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #226. 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’s installment of Fossil Friday,…
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Fossil Friday #225: Annularia inflata
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #225. 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 very colorful…
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Fossil Friday #224: Alethopteris serlii
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #224. 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! —————————————————– Alethopteris serlii is always a favorite. …
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Fossil Friday #223: Acanthotelson stimpsoni
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #223. 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 nice little…
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Fossil Friday #221: Edestus heinrichi Shark Tooth
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #221. 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 contribution to Shark Week…. an Edestus…
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Fossil Friday #220: Annularia inflata
Annularia inflata is out Fossil Friday for this week. We chose it to commemorate the 4th of July holiday. It’s pinnules resemble a firework display. Annularia inflata is the foliage of Calamites. It’s related to modern day horsetails. Find out more here Mazon Monday #60 and Mazon Monday #94.
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Fossil Friday #219: Neuropteris vermicularis – Terminal Pinnule
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #219. 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! Neuropteris vermicularis is a seed fern (see…
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Fossil Friday #218: Rhabdoderma elegans from the Field Museum
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #218. 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! Rhabdoderma elegans was described by John Strong…
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Fossil Friday #217: Cordaites borassifolius
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #217. 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! —————————————————– Here is a nice Cordaites borassifolius…
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Fossil Friday #216: Lycopodites meekii
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #216. 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 foliaged…
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Fossil Friday #215: Another Stunning Myriacantherpestes From Kansas!
Ok, it’s not from Mazon Creek, but is from the Pennsylvanian Period. This absolutely stunning millipede, Myriacantherpestes sp., from the famous Hamilton Quarry in eastern Kansas. That quarry is considered a Late Carboniferous lagerstatte. It’s produced unusually well preserved fossils of plants, vertebrates, and invertebrates, including large winged insects, water scorpions, and, of course, stunning…
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Fossil Friday #214: Alethopteris sullivanti
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #214. 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 very large single…
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Fossil Friday #213: Euproops danae
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #213. 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’s Fossil Friday entry, we…
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Fossil Friday #212: Mazon Creek Crenulopteris acadica
This week’s contribution comes from a very long time ESCONI member… Lil Magnussen. Lil joined ESCONI back in the 1960’s and rarely misses our Braceville field trips. You might remember, she let us post a very nice horseshoe crab in Fossil Friday #177. Her hobbies include beekeeping! And, she makes some very good cookies!
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Fossil Friday #211: Lemont Calymene From the Past
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #211. 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 combination Throwback…
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Fossil Friday #209: Palaeocampa anthrax
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #209. 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 the rarest…
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Fossil Friday #208: Mamayocaris jaskoskii
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #208. 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 contribution comes from Pat Kelly,…
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Fossil Friday #207: Fossils from the Permian of Jordan
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #207. 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! On a recent field trip to a…
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Fossil Friday #206: Cyclus americanus
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #206. 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 large well-preserved Cyclus americanus…
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Fossil Friday #205: Bifurcated Asterophylites from Indiana
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #205. 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! —————————————————– Asterophyllites equisetiformis is a part of…
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Fossil Friday #204: Annularia inflata
This is Mazon Monday post #204. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Fossil Friday is here with a beautiful Annularia inflata. A. inflata is the foliage for Calamites, a genus of extinct horsetail “trees”. They lived in the coal swamps of the Carboniferous and Permian periods and provide much of the…
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Fossil Friday #203: Alethopteris serlii from the Mazon River
This is Mazon Monday post #203. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! For Fossil Friday this week, we have an absolutely stunning Alethopteris serlii from the Mazon River. This specimen was collected by long time ESCONI member Marie Angkuw. This one was opened via freeze/thaw after being plucked from the river…
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Fossil Friday #202: Pecopteris fontainei
This is Mazon Monday post #202. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! This week’s Fossil Friday is a beautiful Pecopteris fontainei. P. fontainei is a tree fern from the Mazon Creek fossil deposit. P. fontainei was named by Leo Lesquereux in 1889. Lesquereux worked with a multiple state geologic surveys, eventually…
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Fossil Friday #201: Crenulopteris acadica
This is Mazon Monday post #201. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! We have a nice Crenulopteris acadica (see Mazon Monday #115) for today’s Fossil Friday. Sometimes, they don’t come out of the freeze/thaw in one piece. Unfortunately, this one needed a little repair. It’s not as obvious from the fossil…
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Fossil Friday #200: Peachocaris strongi
If you thought, “Oh… another Mazon Creek fossil for Fossil Friday”… You’d be wrong. This special little fossil shrimp is Peachocaris strongi. It hails from the old Astoria locality in western Illinois. Fossils from Astoria came from the Sunspot Mine. The locality was known for shrimp fossils, which were very common. The deposit features the…
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Fossil Friday #199: Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri
This is Mazon Monday post #199. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! We have a nice Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri from the Mazon Creek fossil deposit for this week’s Fossil Friday. M. scheuchzeri is a seed fern (Pteridospermatophyta), which is a group of plants that went extinct during the late Cretaceous Period. They…
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Fossil Friday #198: Smithixerxes juliarum
This is Mazon Monday post #198. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! We have a very rare little gem from Mazon Creek for our Fossil Friday this week. Smithixerxes juliarum is one of the rarest of Mazon Creek animals. It belongs to a group of extinct arthropods called the euthycarcinoids. They…
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Fossil Friday #197: Odontopteris subcuneata from Mazon Creek
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #19t. 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 seed…
