Tag: Paul Mayer
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Fossils of Illinois: A Step Back Through Time
Paul Mayer, the Collection Manager of Fossil Invertebrates at the Field Museum, has done many presentations for ESCONI over the years. In October 2023, he gave a presentation entitled “Fossils of Illinois: A Step Back Through Time” at the Lizzadro Museum. Video of the presentation is available on Youtube. Join us for a presentation by…
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Field Museum: A Thanksgiving Tale of Two Horns
The Field Museum has a blog post about ammonites and Thanksgiving. What do Thanksgiving and a fossil ammonite have in common? In ancient times, the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans associated the coiled horns of rams with gods, power, virility, fertility, and abundance. The cornucopia—a conical wicker basket with a never-ending supply of food flowing from…
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September 2106 General Meeting Title Change: Paul Mayer “How Digitization Helped Tame the Tully Monster”
September’s General Meeting will feature a presentation by Paul Mayer of the Field Museum. He is one of the co-authors of the paper “The Tully monster is a vertebrate“, which appeared in Nature back in March. It should be a very interesting presentation. It starts at 8:00 in room 1038B of the Tech Ed (TEC)…
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The “Tully Monster” is a vertebrate!
A new paper, co-authored by Paul Mayer of the Field Museum, in Nature sheds light on an age-old mystery. Tullymonstrum gregarium, commonly known as the Tully Monster, is the official state fossil of Illinois, designated in 1989. It’s a soft bodied animal found in the late Carboniferous Mazon Creek biota (approximately 309-307 million years…
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ESCONI Events This Weekend
Friday, Oct. 8, 8:00 p.m.– ESCONI General Meeting. Speaker: Paul Mayer, Invertebrate Collections Manager at the Field Museum. His talk will be entitled “The Milwaukee Formation: Rocks, Fossils, and Storms.” The lecture will focus on some deep tunnel cores drilled to a depth of over 800 feet in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In particular, he will talk…
