Tag: shrimp
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Fossil Friday #309: Acanthotelson stimpsoni
Today, we have a cute little Acanthotelson stimpsoni (see Mazon Monday #52) from the Mazon River. Acanthotelson stimpsoni is a syncarid shrimp. It’s the most common shrimp found in the Braidwood fauna.
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2026 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #3: Acanthotelson stimpsoni
This is the preview post #3 for the 2026 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2026 will be held on March 21th and 22nd at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. For…
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Fossil Friday #301: French Palaeocaris
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #301. Expect this to be a regular feature of the website. We will post fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Bluesky/Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! In Mazon Monday #294, we highlighted the fossil site at…
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Fossil Friday #260: Lobatelson mclaughlinae
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #260. 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 very nice…
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Mazon Monday #263: Dinner With Dr. Frederick Schram in August, 2011
This is Mazon Monday post #263. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Mary Fairchild did an excellent report about her dinner with Dr. Frederick Schram in August, 2011. There is much to enjoy in the report, including facts about early Mazon Creek research, the people that did research, and the collectors…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #22: Kallidecthes richardsoni from Mazon Creek
This is the preview post #22 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #9: Lobetelson mclaughlinae from Mazon Creek
This is the preview post #9 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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Fossil Friday #247: Acanthotelson stimpsoni
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #247. 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 hash tag #FossilFriday on Twitter/X and Bluesky for contributions from around the world! Acanthotelson stimpsoni was a…
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Mazon Monday #241: Eucryptocaris asherorum
This is Mazon Monday post #241. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Eucryptocaris asherorum is a species of extinct shrimp-like animals from Mazon Creek. They are members on the suborder Tanaidacea, a minor group within the class Malacostraca. Extant members of Tanaidacea are mostly marine, but a few species live in…
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Fossil Friday #227: Belotelson magister
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #227. 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! It’s Friday and that means it’s time…
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Fossil Friday #226: Acanthotelson stimpsoni from Pit 11
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #226. 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 installment of Fossil Friday,…
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Fossil Friday #223: Acanthotelson stimpsoni
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #223. 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 nice little…
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Fossil Friday #208: Mamayocaris jaskoskii
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #208. 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’s contribution comes from Pat Kelly,…
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Fossil Friday #200: Peachocaris strongi
If you thought, “Oh… another Mazon Creek fossil for Fossil Friday”… You’d be wrong. This special little fossil shrimp is Peachocaris strongi. It hails from the old Astoria locality in western Illinois. Fossils from Astoria came from the Sunspot Mine. The locality was known for shrimp fossils, which were very common. The deposit features the…
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Fossil Friday #180: Acanthotelson stimpsoni
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #180. 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’s fossil is a sweet little…
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #16!
This is the preview post #16 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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Fossil Friday #142: Anthracaris gracilis
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #142. 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! Anthracaris gracilis is an extinct species of…
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Fossil Friday #138: Mamayocaris jaskoskii
This is “Fossil Friday” post #138. 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 very nice…
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Fossil Friday #135: It’s Got Belotelson Eyes…
This is “Fossil Friday” post #135. 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! Who’s old enough to remember the Kim Carnes…
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Fossil Friday #128: Acanthotelson from the Mazon River
This is “Fossil Friday” post #128. 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 gorgeous Acanthotelson stimpsoni comes from the Mazon…
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Fossil Friday #120: Kallidecthes richardsoni
This is “Fossil Friday” post #120. 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! Got some cocktail sauce? For this week’s Fossil…
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Fossil Friday #117: Lobatelson mclaughlinae
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #117. 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 very nice Pit…
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Fossil Friday #102: Kellibrooksia macrogaster x 3!
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #102. 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’s Fossil Friday is three specimens…
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Mazon Monday #105: Kellibrooksia macrogaster
This is Mazon Monday post #105. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Kellibrooksia macrogaster is a species of mantis shrimp (stomatopods). It was described by Frederick Schram in 1973. Frederick Schram described many of the shrimp of Mazon Creek. We had a nice one for sale at the ESCONI Gem, Mineral,…
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Fossil Friday #91: Paleocaris typus from the Mazon River
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #91. 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! Back in Mazon Monday #65, we spotlighted…
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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 #63: Paleocaris typus
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #63. 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! Back in Mazon Monday #65, we highlighted…
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Mazon Monday #65: Palaeocaris typus
This is Mazon Monday post #65. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Another shrimp is up for this week’s Mazon Monday. We have Palaeocaris typus. P. typus was described way back in 1865 by Meek and Worthen. Fielding Bradford Meek (1817 – 1876) was an American geologist and paleontologist, who…
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Mazon Monday #64: Essoidea epiceron
This is Mazon Monday post #64. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. For Mazon Monday this week, we have a small filter feeding shrimp, which is one of the smallest known from the Mazon Creek fossil biota, Essoidea epiceron, was described in 1974 by Dr. Frederick Schram, who has described many…
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Mazon Monday #52: Acanthotelson stimpsoni
This is Mazon Monday post #52. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. This week, we are going to look at a syncarid shrimp called Acanthotelson stimpsoni. It’s one of the most common shrimp found amongst the Braidwood fauna. We had a very nice one from the Mazon River a few weeks…
