Tag: spider
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Fossil Friday #300: Orthotarbus robustus from the River
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #300. 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! Is there a better way to post our 300th Fossil…
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Mazon Monday #217: Douglassarachne acanthopoda
This is Mazon Monday post #217. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The world has a brand new Mazon Creek spider. Douglassarachne acanthopoda was originally found in the Pit 15 locality by Bob Masek in the 1980s. Bob (Earth Magazine article) has been a premier fossil preparator for many years, working…
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Fossil Friday #183: Mazon Creek Spider
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #183. 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 breathtaking…
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Fossil of a ‘Giant’ Trapdoor Spider Found in Australia, And Just Look at It!
Science Alert has a story about a spider fossil from Australia. This new species of spider, Megamonodontium mccluskyi, dates to the Miocene, which lasted from 11 to 16 million years ago. The fossil was found in a locality called McGraths Flat located in a grassland in New South Wales. McGraths Flat is classified as a…
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Fossil Friday #141: Orthotarbus robustus from Mazon Creek
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #141. 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! Fossil spiders are always a favorite here…
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Fossil Friday #84: Spider from Knob Noster
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #84. 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 the third time this year, we…
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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 #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…
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Fossil Friday #69: Mazon Creek Spider!
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #69. 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 fossil collectors, Tully Monsters…
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Fossil Friday #41: Hooded Tick Spider
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #41. 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’s fossil is a “hooded tick spider”…
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A ‘Jackalope’ of an ancient spider fossil deemed a hoax, unmasked as a crayfish
Phys.org has a post about a crayfish masquerading as a spider. It seems someone painted legs on a poorly preserved crayfish fossil from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China. You can read about their detective work in a paper published in the journal Paleoentomology. The locals sold the fossil to scientists at the Dalian…
