Tag: Iowa
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Fossil Friday #318: Rex, the Wonder Amphibian
We have something very interesting this week… The specimen’s label says “Rex, the Wonder Amphibian”. It’s an early tetrapod from the Mississippian of Iowa, some 340 million years ago. Whatcheeria deltae was described by R. Eric Lombard and John R. Bolt in 1985 in the paper “A new primitive tetrapod, Whatcheeria deltae, from the Lower…
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Throwback Thursday #259: Looking Back At ESCONI For April 2025
This is Throwback Thursday #259. 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! email:esconi.info@gmail.com. 25 Years Ago – April 2000 50 Years Ago – April 1975 70 Years Ago – April…
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Fossil find in northwest Iowa is one of a kind
Kurt Spearing, an associate professor of natural and mathematical sciences at Morningside University, displays three vertebra from a mosasaur The Sioux City Journal has a story about the discovery of a mosasaur vertebral segment in Iowa. The fossil is about 4 inches long and consists of three fused vertebrae. It was found by Tyler McDonald…
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Video for ESCONI October 2023 General Meeting – “Microfossils to Mosasaurs: A Journey Through the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository”
Here is the video for the October 2023 General Meeting. The speaker was Tiffany Adrain, who works as the Paleontology Repository Collections Manager at the University of Iowa. The topic of her presentation was “Microfossils to Mosasaurs: A Journey Through the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository”.
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Fossil Gorge, uncovered 30 years ago, preserves a 375 million-year-old ocean floor in eastern Iowa
Little Village Magazine has a story about Fossil Gorge in Corralville, Iowa. Fossil Gorge is a fossil locality about four hours from Chicago in central Iowa. The deposit dates to the Devonian Period about 375 million years ago… that’s more than 300 million years before the non-avian dinosaurs go extinct at the end of the…
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A Day Away: Coralville Lake’s Devonian Fossil Gorge a trip back in time
The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, IA has a story about the Devonian Fossil Gorge in Coralville, IA. It’s just off I-80 in the heart of Iowa… great for a rest stop on your summer vacation. We posted a story from TheTravel about the same place a few weeks ago. It would be a nice place…
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This Fossil Field In Iowa Reveals A Prehistoric Landscape That’s 375 Million Years Old
TheTravel.com has a story about the Devonian Fossil Gorge in Coralville, IA. If you are traveling through Iowa this summer, stop at the Devonian Fossil Gorge just outside Iowa City, IA. There’s a place to rest and stretch your legs, have lunch, and explore the Devonian fossils uncovered by a flood back in 1993. Just…
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Throwback Thursday #37: Revisiting the Field Trip to Pint’s Quarry in Raymond, Iowa on May 8th 1977
This is Throwback Thursday #37. 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! For Throwback Thursday #3, we recalled a field trip to Pint’s Quarry in Raymond, Iowa on May 8th,…
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Throwback Thursday #3: Field Trip To Pint’s Quarry in Iowa, May 1977
This is Throwback Thursday #3. In these, we look back in the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have and contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please sent them to email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! The following pictures are from a field trip to Pint’s Quarry in Iowa in May 1977. These photos…
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Letter from Member
December 12, 2013 ESCONI old-timers may remember Allan Mitchell of Iowa City, Iowa, who died on November 22, 2013 at the age of 101. He sold and/or donated large amounts of interesting micro material to the micromount group on several occasions in the 1980s and was a familiar name to that group at that time. …
