Tag: MazonCreek
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Mazon Monday #36: Fossils of Terre Haute Indiana
This is Mazon Monday post #36. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Recently, there has been a few questions about the Mazon Creek-like fossils from around Terre Haute, Indiana. Although there is a pretty rich history of these fossils, there’s not much reference information about the locality. There were actually two…
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Mazon Monday #35: Scallops
This is Mazon Monday post #35. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. For this post, we are highlighting some of the pectens found in the Mazon Creek fossil deposit. Aviculopecten mazonensis is one of the most commonly known, but there are three others of note Dunbarella striata, Euchondria pellucida, and Palaeolima…
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Mazon Monday #34: Pit 14
This is Mazon Monday post #34. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The Mazon Creek fossil deposits consists of numerous different localities. These localities are the Mazon River, which has been collected since at least the 1850’s (and probably earlier) to the shaft mines, which date to the late 1800’s and…
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Reminder: ESCONI November 2020 General Meeting – November 13th, 2020 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “New Tetrapod Discoveries from Mazon Creek”
Our speaker via Zoom in November is Dr. Arjan Mann. Arjan recently received his PhD from Carleton University in Toronto. He is transitioning to a postdoc position at Harvard. Arjan co-authored articles naming two new species of microsaurs called Diabloroter and Infernovenator. The title of his talk is “New Tetrapod Discoveries from Mazon Creek”. Zoom…
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Mazon Monday #33: Creature Corner Newsletter Column and Book
This is Mazon Monday post #33. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Last week, we spoke about a couple books published by ESCONI in the 1980’s – “Keys To Identify Pennsylvanian Fossil Plants of the Mazon Creek Area” in 1986 (updated in 1990) and “Keys To Identify Pennsylvanian Fossil Animals of…
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Mazon Monday #32: ESCONI books – Keys to Identify Pennsylvanian Fossil Plants and Animals
This is Mazon Monday post #32. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. ESCONI has made numerous contributions to the science of Mazon Creek fossils over the years. Everyone knows about the George Langford books published in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Jack Wittry wrote new books that included much of…
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ESCONI November 2020 General Meeting – November 13th, 2020 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “New Tetrapod Discoveries from Mazon Creek”
Our speaker via Zoom in November is Dr. Arjan Mann. Arjan recently received his PhD from Carleton University in Toronto. He is transitioning to a postdoc position at Harvard. Arjan co-authored articles naming two new species of microsaurs called Diabloroter and Infernovenator. The title of his talk is “New Tetrapod Discoveries from Mazon Creek”. Here’s…
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Mazon Monday #31: Fanworms
This is Mazon Monday post #31. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Today, we are highlighting Fanworms. Mazon Creek fanworms were soft bodied animals and are thought to be polychaetes. They were and currently are filter feeders, which live in the ocean. Some are free swimming and some others live in…
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Video: ESCONI General Meeting, September 2020 – “Carboniferous Fossils Reveal How Fishes Evolve, and How They Don’t”
“Carboniferous Fossils Reveal How Fishes Evolve, and How They Don’t” The speaker at our September 11th, 2020 general meeting was Dr. Lauren Sallan from the University of Pennsylvania. Her presentation was done via Zoom and started at 8:00 PM. Dr. Sallan received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2012. She was a co-author…
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Mazon Monday #30: The Diamond Mine Disaster At Braidwood
This is Mazon Monday post #30. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. This week’s Mazon Monday isn’t about fossils… we are recalling a coal mine disaster in Diamond, IL on February 16th, 1883. ESCONI had a great lecture about this event back in June 2019 by Michele Micetich, of the Carbon Hill…
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Fossil Friday #27: Alethopteris serlii from the Mazon River
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #27. 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! Maybe it’s the size or the 3…
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Throwback Thursday #29: Best Fossil 2015
This is Throwback Thursday #29. 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 a few years, the Paleontology Study Group held a Best Fossil contest for National Fossil Day. The…
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Mazon Monday #29: Achistrum sp. (Holothurians)
This is Mazon Monday post #29. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. This week’s “Mazon Monday” is a species (or class) spotlight on the Holothurians otherwise known as Sea Cucumbers. They belong to the phylum Echinodemata, which includes starfish, sea urchins, sand dollars, and seal lilies. Current feeling is there were…
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Throwback Thursday #28: Photos of Braidwood Coal Mining 1960
This is Throwback Thursday #28. 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! Here are a few photos of the Braidwood coal mines in 1960. Some very large drag lines and…
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Mazon Monday #28: Cyclus americanus
This is Mazon Monday post #28. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Today, we have a species spotlight on Cyclus americanus. It’s one of my favorite Mazon Creek animals. Cycloids form an order of fossil arthropods that lived from the Carboniferous to the Cretaceous periods. Here is the text from the…
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Throwback Thursday #27: Field Trip to Morris for Mazon Creek Fossils September 1976
This is Throwback Thursday #27. 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! Here is a selection of photos from a field trip to Morris, IL to collect Mazon Creek fossils. …
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Mazon Monday #27: Care and Feeding of Your Mazon Creek Concretions
This is Mazon Monday post #27. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Now that you have collected some concretions at Braceville (and maybe other places) this year, here are some notes on how to process them to maximize your chances for something good. Care and Handling of Mazon Creek Concretions Storage …
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Fossil Friday #24: Euphoberia from the Mazon River
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #24. 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 an excellent specimen of…
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Fossil Friday #23: Animals from Braceville
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #23. 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! There is a field trip to Braceville…
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Throwback Thursday #25: Hunting Ghosts, Blobs, and Assorted Monsters in Illinois’ Coal Age Nodules
This is Throwback Thursday #25. 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 following is an article by Cecilia Duluk about the fossil blobs (and monsters) found in Mazon Creek…
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Mazon Monday #25: Mazonomya mazonensis
This is Mazon Monday post #25. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The species spotlight falls on Mazonomya mazonensis, known mistakenly as Edmondia for a long time. It was also called affectionately clam-clam. Here is the text from the Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna by Jack Wittry. Mazonomya mazonensis Bailey, 2011 Found…
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Fossil Friday #22: Plants from Braceville
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #22. 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! There is a field trip to Braceville…
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Mazon Monday #24: Euphoberia sp.
This is Mazon Monday post #24. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Today’s species is Euphoberia sp., a millipede from the Mazon Creek biota. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Euphoberia is an extinct genus of millipede from the Pennsylvanian epoch of the Late Carboniferous, measuring up to 30 centimetres (12 in) in length.[1] Fossils have been found in Europe[2] and North America.[3] There…
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Mazon Monday #23: Interesting Pennsylvanian Fossil Sites: Crock Hey, Lancashire, UK
This is Mazon Monday post #23. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. In Mazon Monday #10, we discussed localities where siderite preservation of Pennsylvanian fossils has been found. There were a few localities listed. Here is more information about the site called Crock Hey (also Crockhey). This site was located near Lancashire in…
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Mazon Monday #22: Pit 11
This is Mazon Monday post #21. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Summer is passing into September and the temperature should should be cooling. Unfortunately, the overgrowth isn’t going to diminish until next spring. However, Pit 11 doesn’t close to fossil hunting until September 30th. So, It’s time to repeat this article…
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ESCONI Field Trip to Braceville – Saturday, September 19th and Sunday September 20th, 2020
Braceville Field Trip Rules – Sept 2020 The ESCONI field trips to Braceville for Mazon Creek fossils are set for Sept 19 and 20, 2020 from 8 AM to 2 PM. You can attend either (but not both) day(s). There is an attendance limit of 50 people each day. If you are sick, have any…
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Mazon Monday #21: Euproops danae
This is Mazon Monday post #21. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Euproops was a horseshoe crab. There are two species of horseshoe crab found in the Mazon Creek biota, Euproops danae (common) and Paleolimulus sp. (extremely rare). Both are known from other Carboniferous fossil localities around the world. As you…
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Mazon Monday #20: Fossil Preservation
This is Mazon Monday post #20. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Back in 2017, Palaeocast posted a lecture called “Is a ‘one size fits all’ taphonomic model appropriate for the Mazon Creek” by Dr. Thomas Clements, of the University of Birmingham in the UK. You may remember Dr. Clements… he…
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Mazon Monday #19: Bandringa rayi
This is Mazon Monday post #19. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Would you believe that Illinois has a shark nursery? OK, it is about 307 million years old and the evidence resides in Mazon Creek fossil concretions. The first species, Bandringa rayi, was described in a paper published by Rainer…
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Fossil Friday #17: Mazon Creek Alethopteris serlii
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #17. 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! What’s your favorite Mazon Creek plant fossil? …
