Tag: FossilFriday
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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…
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Fossil Friday #196: Calamostachys from Mazon Creek
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #196. 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 another Mazon Creek plant…
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Fossil Friday #195: Acanthodes beecheri
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #195. 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, we have…
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Fossil Friday #194: Asterophyllites equisetiformis from Indiana
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #194. 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 Asterophyllites equisetiformis…
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Fossil Friday #193: Dunbarella sp. From Danville
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #193. 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! I’m not sure how tasty scallops from…
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Fossil Friday #192: Palaeoxyris lewisi
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #192. 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! Shark egg cases are back on the…
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Fossil Friday #191: Acanthodes beecheri
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #191. 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, we have…
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Fossil Friday #190: Squirmarius testai
Squirmarius testai is up this week. It’s a new Mazon Creek fossil family member and hagfish. It was the subject of Mazon Monday #193.
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Fossil Friday #189: Alethopteris serlii
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #189. 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 beautiful…
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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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Fossil Friday #187: Mazon Creek Chiton
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #187. 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, we have…
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Throwback Thursday #188: Field Museum Photos – Mazon Creek Fossils
This is Throwback Thursday #188. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Today, we take another peek into the Field Museum Photo Archive over on Tumblr. The subject is “Fossil…
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Fossil Friday #186: Greenops sp. from Penn Dixie
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #186. 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 Greenops trilobite from…
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Fossil Friday #185: Adelophthalmus mazonensis
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #185. 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! Jeremy Zimmerman sent us some photos of…
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Fossil Friday #184: Gilpichthys greenei from Mazon Creek
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #184. 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 beautiful, huge Gilpichthys…
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Fossil Friday #183: Mazon Creek Spider
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #183. 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 breathtaking…
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Fossil Friday #182: Lepidodendron Bark
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #182. 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! Lepidodendron, also known as “scale tree”, is…
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Fossil Friday #181: Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #181. 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 rather nice…
