Tag: John Catalani
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ESCONI September 2025 Paleontology Meeting – “Show and Tell”
There were some very interesting things on display at the September 2025 Paleontology Meeting. The theme of the night was “Show and Tell”. We had over 20 attendees with everything from Mazon Creek to crinoids to nautiloids to a large model of a Velociraptor. John Catalani, Paleontology Study Group chairman, gave us a preview of…
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Video for ESCONI Paleontology Meeting May 2025 – “Platteville Oncocerid Nautiloids: Living on the Mohawkian Sea Floor”
Topic: Platteville Oncocerid Nautiloids: Living on the Mohawkian Sea FloorPresenter: John Catalani Although many Ordovician nautiloid faunas are dominated by straight-shelled orthoconic forms, this is not true for the incredibly abundant and diverse Platteville fauna. The Platteville nautiloid fauna consists of 9+ Orders with the Oncocerida accounting for 50+% of the published species. I will…
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Throwback Thursday #264: MAPS #5 and #31
This is Throwback Thursday #264. 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. MAPS EXPO 2025 starts tomorrow May 8th through 9th in Springfield, IL at the Joe Orr Building…
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Throwback Thursday #249: Index of Throwback Thursday Posts
This is Throwback Thursday #249. 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. Here’s a handy index of our Throwback Thursday posts. This should make it easy to look up…
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ESCONI January 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting – January 18, 2025 via Zoom – “The ‘Arctic Fauna’”
The January 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting will be held on January 18, 2025 via Zoom. Our presenter is John Catalani and his topic is “The ‘Arctic Fauna’”. The name refers to where the fossil assemblage was first discovered – Greenland and Baffin Island, although they are now known from many localities including the Stewartville Bed…
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ESCONI Board Members for 2025
PRESIDENT: Chris Berg 1ST. VICE PRESIDENT: Katherine Howard 2ND. VICE PRESIDENT: Keith Robitschek RECORDING SECRETARY: Valerie Anderson TREASURER: Andrew Jansen PUBLICITY: Elizabeth Magnus-Gentry LIBRARIAN: Andrew Jansen CURATOR: Chris Cozart HISTORIAN: Richard Holm Assistant Field Trip Chairman: Connor Puritz Assistant Field Trip Chairman: Jeremy Zimmerman EDITOR: Don Cronauer CIRCULATION: Rose Jansen PAST PRESIDENT: Phil Anderson MEMBERSHIP: Rose Jansen SHOW…
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ESCONI Field Trip to the Napoleon Quarry in Napoleon, IN – for Ordovician/Silurian Fossils – Saturday, October 26th, 2024
Cystoid from a field trip to Napoleon – from a University of Kentucky website. There will be a field trip for ESCONI members on Saturday, October 26, 2024, to the quarry just east of Napoleon, Indiana. We need to meet, no exceptions, at the quarry entrance at 8:30 a.m. EDT. We have the chance to collect…
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ESCONI September 2024 Paleontology Study Group Meeting – September 21st, 2024 – “Show and Tell”
Day/Date: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2024 Time: 7:30PM Location: In-person at College of DuPage: Technical Education Center (TEC) Building – Room 1038B Map. Presented by: John Catalani Bring your fossil specimens that you have collected over the summer season this year, or some other time, to the in-person meeting. These fossils could have been collected on ESCONI Field…
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Video for ESCONI May 2024 Paleontology Meeting – “The Upper Ordovician Platteville Formation”
The May 2024 Paleontology Study Group meeting was held on Saturday, May 18th, 2024. John Catalani did a presentation about the Upper Ordovician Platteville Formation here in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. He details the name changes how it relates to the surrounding area.
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Video for ESCONI April 2024 Paleontology Meeting – “Terror Birds”
The April 2024 was held on April 20th, 2024 at 7:30 via Zoom. The presenter was ESCONI member John Catalani. Abstract We begin with an explanation of the “Terror Birds” and their position in Geologic Time. The two major groups of these large cursorial birds are the Phorusrhacidae and the Gastornithidae. The first group was…
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ESCONI April 2024 Paleontology Meeting – Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at 7:30 PM Zoom – “Terror Birds”
The April 2024 will be held on April 20th, 2024 at 7:30 via Zoom. The presentation will be given by John Catalani. Abstract We begin with an explanation of the “Terror Birds” and their position in Geologic Time. The two major groups of these large cursorial birds are the Phorusrhacidae and the Gastornithidae. The first…
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ESCONI Board Members for 2024
PRESIDENT: Phil Anderson 1ST. VICE PRESIDENT: Katherine Howard 2ND. VICE PRESIDENT: Irene Broede RECORDING SECRETARY: Valerie Anderson TREASURER: Andrew Jansen PUBLICITY: Chris Berg LIBRARIAN: Andrew Jansen CURATOR: Chris Cozart HISTORIAN: Richard Holm Assistant Field Trip Chairman: Dave Carlson Assistant Field Trip Chairman: John Catalani EDITOR: Don Cronauer CIRCULATION: Rose Jansen PAST PRESIDENT: Keith Robitschek MEMBERSHIP: Rose Jansen SHOW CHAIRMAN: Dave Carlson…
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ESCONI Paleontology Meeting Saturday, May 20th, 2023 at 7:30 PM Hybrid “Echinoderms of the Platteville and Galena Formations”
A starfish (Hudsonaster) from the Ordovician Platteville Limestone, Wisconsin. Photo of YPM IP 538069 by Jessica Utrup (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History on GBIF.org, CC0 1.0 Universal/public domain dedication). The May 2023 ESCONI Paleontology Study Group Meeting will be held on May 20th, 2023 at 7:30 via Zoom and at the College of DuPage Tech Ed…
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Video for ESCONI Paleontology Meeting January 2023 “The Devonian Period”
The ESCONI Paleontology Sttudy Group Meeting was held on Saturday, January 21st, 2023. The topic was “The Devonian Period”. The presentation was given by ESCONI member and Field Trip Chairman John Catalani. Palaeogeographic map of the Late Devonian world, based on ref.77. The location of Steinbruch Schmidt(1), the Siljan impact crater (S), the Viluy Traps…
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Mazon Monday #156: Charles Shabica and the Tully Monster
This is Mazon Monday post #156. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Charles Shabica stopped by the ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show on Saturday. Just in case you don’t know who he is… Shabica edited the “Richardson’s Gulde to the Fossil Fauna of Mazon Creek”, which was published in 1997. …
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Fossil Friday #144: Snakestone from England
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #144. 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! Ammonites are extinct cephalopods molluscs, related to…
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ESCONI Paleontology Meeting Saturday, January 21st, 2023 at 7:30 PM Zoom – “The Devonian Period”
Palaeogeographic map of the Late Devonian world, based on ref.77. The location of Steinbruch Schmidt(1), the Siljan impact crater (S), the Viluy Traps (V), and the Kola, Vyatka, and Pripyat–Dniepr–Donets rift systems (K-V-PDD) are indicated. The ESCONI Paleontology Sttudy Group Meeting will be held on Saturday, January 21st, 2023 at 7:30 PM via Zoom. The…
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ESCONI Board Members for 2023
PRESIDENT: Keith Robitschek 1ST. VICE PRESIDENT: Katherine Howard 2ND. VICE PRESIDENT: Irene Broede RECORDING SECRETARY: Valerie Anderson TREASURER: Andrew Jansen PUBLICITY: Chris Berg LIBRARIAN: Andrew Jansen CURATOR: Chris Cozart HISTORIAN: Richard Holm Assistant Field Trip Chairman: Dave Carlson Assistant Field Trip Chairman: John Catalani EDITOR: Don Cronauer CIRCULATION: Rose Jansen PAST PRESIDENT: Jeff Lord MEMBERSHIP: Rose Jansen SHOW CHAIRMAN: Dave Carlson…
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ESCONI at MAPS 2022
The MAPS National Fossil Exposition was held from October 21st to 23rd, 2022. Quite a few of the usual ESCONI members attended MAPS this weekend. Some were even selling fossils. ESCONI’s own John Catalani gave the keynote about the Dixon Lagerstatten. Ralph Jewel has an informative thread over on the Fossil Forum. Check it out…
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Fossil Friday #116: Waldon Shale Fossils
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #116. 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 some Silurian fossils from southern…
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TRIP FULL! – ESCONI Field Trip to the St. Paul Quarry in St. Paul, IN – Friday, May 27th, 2022, 8:30 AM – 3:00ish PM
Trip full! A waiting list will be kept. Please let us know if you can’t make it. On Friday, May 27, there will be a ESCONI Field Trip to the St. Paul quarry , St. Paul, Indiana. We have been instructed to meet at the quarry office just south of the town of St. Paul…
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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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ESCONI March 2021 Paleontology Meeting – April 17th, 2021 at 7:30 PM via Zoom – “Analysis of the Mifflin Member of the Platteville Formation”
SATURDAY – APRIL 17 – 7:30 PM Central Time (US & Canada) Topic: “Analysis of the Mifflin Member of the Platteville Formation” Presented by: John Catalani, ESCONI Member Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84740566864?pwd=aG9hbU5wUCtHenI0Tmt5NTN1S2VJZz09 Meeting ID: 847 4056 6864Passcode: 569922 One tap mobile+13126266799,,84740566864#,,,,*569922# US (Chicago)+13017158592,,84740566864#,,,,*569922# US (Washington DC) Dial by your location+1 312 626 6799…
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Throwback Thursday #44: Commentary: Contributions by Amateur Paleontologists by John Catalani
This is Throwback Thursday #44. 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! The journal Palaeontologia Electronica published the following article in May 2014. It was written by John Catalani, a…
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ESCONI Board Members for 2022
PRESIDENT: Keith Robitschek 1ST. VICE PRESIDENT: Dave Carlson 2ND. VICE PRESIDENT: Irene Broede RECORDING SECRETARY: Valerie Anderson TREASURER: Andrew Jansen PUBLICITY: Chris Berg LIBRARIAN: Andrew Jansen CURATOR: Chris Cozart HISTORIAN: Richard Holm Assistant Field Trip Chairman: Dave Carlson Assistant Field Trip Chairman: John Catalani EDITOR: Don Cronauer CIRCULATION: Rose Jansen PAST PRESIDENT: Jeff Lord MEMBERSHIP: Rose Jansen SHOW…
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Zoom Link: ESCONI September 2020 Paleo Meeting – September 19, 2020 – Brag Night!
September 19, 2020, Paleontology Study Group Meeting John A. Catalani We are going to have a Paleo Study Group meeting on Saturday Sept. 19 beginning at 7:30 p.m on Zoom. The plan is to have members present their fossil finds collected since the last “Brag Night” meeting of Sept. 2019. It would be best to…
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Reminder: ESCONI September 2020 Paleo Meeting – September 19, 2020 – Brag Night!
September 19, 2020, Paleontology Study Group Meeting John A. Catalani We are going to have a Paleo Study Group meeting on Saturday Sept. 19 beginning at 7:30 p.m on Zoom. The plan is to have members present their fossil finds collected since the last “Brag Night” meeting of Sept. 2019. It would be best to…
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Fossil Friday #20: Blastoids!
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #20. 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 real treat… blastoids. …
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ESCONI September 2020 Paleo Meeting – September 19, 2020 – Brag Night!
September 19, 2020, Paleontology Study Group Meeting John A. Catalani We are going to have a Paleo Study Group meeting on Saturday Sept. 19 beginning at 7:30 p.m on Zoom. The plan is to have members present their fossil finds collected since the last “Brag Night” meeting of Sept. 2019. It would be best to…
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Fossil Friday #1: Silurian Nautiloids from the Chicago Area
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #1. 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! These are Silurian nautiloids from the Chicago…
