Tag: Pennsylvanian
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Mazon Monday #87: Video for November 2021 Paleontology Meeting – “The Linton Ohio Coal Mine; a unique look into Carboniferous Tetrapods”
This is Mazon Monday post #87. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at esconi.info@gmail.com. The ESCONI November 2021 Paleontology was held on Saturday, November, 20th, 2021 at 7:30 PM. The presentation was by ESCONI member Mike Payne. It’s called “The Linton Ohio Coal Mine; a unique look into Carboniferous Tetrapods”. The Diamond Coal…
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Mazon Monday #86: Herrin Coal Fossil Guides
This is Mazon Monday post #86. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. In 2021, ESCONI organized two field trips to a shaft mine spoil pile near Danville, IL. Both trips were very successful, with many fascinating specimens collected. You can find more information about these trips at the links below. Here…
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Fossil Friday #82: Eubleptus danielsi
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #82. 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! —————————————————– A Mazon Creek insect is up…
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Mazon Monday #85: Neuropteris ovata
This is Mazon Monday post #85. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Our species spotlight for this week is Neuropteris ovata. N. ovata was described by Friedrich Hoffmann (1797-1836) in 1826. Hoffmann was a Professor of Geology at the University of Berlin. He is esspecially known for his work on the…
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Fossil Friday #81: Mazon Creek Roachoid
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #81. 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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Mazon Monday #84: Chowder Flats
This is Mazon Monday post #84. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. During the ESCONI Sale back in October, a member noticed a booklet called “A Guide to the Coal Fossils of Chowder Flats, Morris, Illinois”. It was written by Robert J. Reich in 1982, who was advisor to the Botany…
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Fossil Friday #80: Mazon Creek Diorama
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #80. 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 something a little different this…
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Mazon Monday #83: George Langford at the Illinois State Museum
This is Mazon Monday post #83. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. As part of the trip to the 2021 MAPS Expo in Springfield, IL this past weekend, a few ESCONI members took the opportunity to visit the Mazon Creek exhibit at the Illinois State Museum. George Langford donated a large…
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Fossil Friday #79: Triple Annularia and Macroneuropteris
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #79. 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! All right, we have a real nice…
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Mazon Monday #82: Peachocaris strongi
This is Mazon Monday post #82. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. We’ve already looked at a few shrimp species from the Mazon Creek biota – Today, we are going to look at yet another… Peachocaris strongi. It was initially described in 1962 by H.K. Brooks and placed in the genus…
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Fossil Friday #78: A Double Mazon Creek Fossil
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #78. 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! Surprise, surprise… we have another Mazon Creek…
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Mazon Monday #81: Laveineopteris rarinervis
One of the common seed ferns that we haven’t mentioned yet is Laveineopteris rarinervis. For Fossil Friday #77, we showed a beautiful specimen from the Mazon River. L. rarinervis is common and found across all of the terrestrial Mazon Creek localities. It’s also known from the marine Pit 11 and Braceville spoil pile localities. With…
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Fossil Friday #77: Laveiniopteris rarinervis from Mazon Creek
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #77. 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 Laveiniopteris rarinervis…
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Mazon Monday #80: Book “Coal Age Fossils From Mazon Creek”
This is Mazon Monday post #80. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The book “Coal Age Fossils From Mazon Creek” was published in 1979 by the Illinois State Museum. The ISM has a long history publishing science books. This one is volume III of the scientific papers series. It is a…
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Fossil Friday #76: Pennsylvanian Shark Tooth
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #76. 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 rare…
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2021 ESCONI Fall Sale October 16th, 2021 – Preview #1, Mazon Creek Petrified Wood From Pit 1
This is the preview post #1 for the 2021 ESCONI Fall Sale Live Auction. The sale is on October 16th, 2021 at the DuPage County Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL. All details can be found here. This is an absolutely stunning piece of petrified wood in the form of a branch. It’s a Mazon Creek fossil…
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Mazon Monday #79: Braceville Field Trip (Mazon Creek) Report
This is Mazon Monday post #79. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Here is the field trip report for the Braceville Fall Field Trip, written by ESCONI President Keith Robitschek. The September field trips to the Braceville spoil pile started with Saturday and Sunday being mostly sunny and rather warm for…
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Fossil Friday #75: Mazon Creek Eurypterid
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #75. 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 repeat contributor this week…
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Mazon Monday #78: Amynilyspes wortheni
This is Mazon Monday post #78. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Today, we are having a look at Amynilyspes wortheni, an extinct species of pill millipede. A. wortheni was described by Samuel Hubbard Scudder in 1882, a giant in the field of fossil insects and other arthropods during the 1800’s. The…
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Fossil Friday #74: Belotelson magister
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #74. 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 both a nice fossil…
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Mazon Monday #77: Care and Feeding of Your Mazon Creek Concretions
This is Mazon Monday post #77. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. —————————————————– Today, we have a repost of Mazon Monday #27 – “Care and Feeding of Your Mazon Creek Concretions”. We are posting it to help the new members and collectors we met on the Braceville spoil pile this past…
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Fossil Friday #73: Mazon Creek Pill Millipede
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #73. 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! Mazon Creek is back this week and…
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Mazon Monday #76: Spring Braceville Field Trip Report by AJ Templer
This is Mazon Monday post #76. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. ESCONI’s mission is one of education and we love to get the kids interested in our Earth Science passions. In this case, it’s paleontology and we are hunting for Mazon Creek fossils. In order to get us ready for the…
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Trip Full – ESCONI Field Trip to Danville Shale Pile Fossils – Saturday, September 25th, 2021
Danville Field Trip RulesSeptember 25, 2021 An ESCONI field trip to the Danville Shale Pile for Pennsylvanian fossils is scheduled for Sept 25, 2021 from 10 AM to 3 PM. This is on private property and there is an attendance limit of 25 people. The gate will be secured once we are in and locked…
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Mazon Monday #75: Arthrolycosa danielsi
This is Mazon Monday post #75. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. After posting James Alann’s outstanding specimen of Arthrolycosa danielsi, I was curious and had to know a little more, so I spent some time digging… The name Arthrolycosa means “wolf spider”. Specimens have been also found in the Kirov…
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Fossil Friday #71: Arthrolycosa danielsi
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #71. 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 many collectors, spiders represent the pinnacle…
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Mazon Monday #74: Langford Book 3
This is Mazon Monday post #74. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. We recently ran across an interesting article in the July/August 1996 edition of the ESCONI newsletter that details the story of the donation of the original notebook manuscripts of the two original Langford books and the unpublished book three. …
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Trip Full – ESCONI Field Trip to Braceville, IL for Mazon Creek Fossils – Saturday, September 11th and Sunday, September 12th, 2021
The Braceville Field Trip is currently full, however we are taking names for the waiting list. The ESCONI field trips to Braceville for Mazon Creek fossils are set for Sept 11 and 12, 2021 from 9 AM to 3 PM. You can attend one or the other, but not both days. There is an overall…
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Fossil Friday #70: Mariopteris
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #70. 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 very nice…
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Mazon Monday #73: Architarbus rotundatus
This is Mazon Monday post #73. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. For this week, we are going to cover the same species of spider we featured in our recent Fossil Friday #69, Architarbus rotundatus. Paleozoic spider-like arachnids are an interesting group. Most lack the ability to produce silk and so…
