Tag: worms
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Mazon Monday #330: A New Mazon Creek Worm
While you were getting ready to celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, a new fossil polychaete from Mazon Creek was being introduced to the world! It’s the first in annelid from Mazon Creek in over 20 years! Mazovermes magnaterminus was described in “The first new polychaete from the Mazon Creek fossil site in 20 years suggests…
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Fossil Friday #108: Mazopherusa prinosi from Braceville
To help lead into the Braceville field trip this weekend, we have one of the iconic species from “Worm Hill”. The Braceville spoil pile is known for jellies, clams, the occasional shrimp, partial plants, and worms… lots of worms. ESCONI member Maarten Vonhof sent us photos of what may be the best specimen of Mazopherusa…
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Mazon Monday #68: Dryptoscolex matthiesae
This is Mazon Monday post #68. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Dryptoscolex matthiesae is an annelid worm, which are part of class Polychaeta. It is known informally as the “Rat Worm”. Ida Thompson described D. matthiesae in 1979 in the paper “Errant polychaetes (Annelida) from the Pennsylvanian Essex Fauna of Northern…
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PBS Eons: How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the Wormworld of the Ediacaran. Elongated tubes, flat ribbons, and other “worm-like” body plans were so varied and abundant that a part of the Ediacaran is sometimes known as Wormworld. But in the end, the ancient Wormworld was ended by the actions of its…
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400 million year old gigantic extinct monster worm discovered in Canadian museum
Phys.org has a post about a gigantic worm which lived about 400 million years ago. The fossil species was discovered back in 1994 by Derek K Armstrong of the Ontario Geologic Survey. He had been dropped by helicopter to investigate the rocks and fossils in a remote and temporary exposure in Ontario. The species has…
