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The Mazon Creek fossil beds are a conservation lagerstätte found near Morris, in Grundy County, Illinois. The fossils are preserved in ironstone concretions, formed approximately 309 million years ago in the mid- Pennsylvanian epoch of the Carboniferous period. These concretions frequently preserve both hard and soft tissues of animal and ...
The Pohlsepia mazonensis fossil was found specifically in the Pit 11 region, within the Francis Creek Shale Member [7]. Like most soft tissue fossils found in Mazon Creek, it is preserved as a 2D light-on-dark discolouration of the matrix [8]. The Francis Creek Shale Member of the Carbon Formation has a diverse array of preserved plants and ...
Douglassarachne is known from Mazon Creek which preserves fossils around 308 million years ago. The fossil was preserved in a siderite concretion. [1] [2] In 1980, Bob Masek discovered the fossil at the Pit 15 Northern Mine spoil heap, near Essex, Kankakee County, Illinois. Around 1990 he would sell the fossil to David Douglass. [1]
The Mazon River or Mazon Creek ( / məˈzɒn / ), is a tributary of the Illinois River in the United States. The confluence is near Morris, Illinois. [ 2] The Mazon River is associated with the Mazon Creek fossils of the Francis Creek Shale, which are also exposed in strip mines and quarries near the River. This fossil bed includes well ...
museum.geoscience.wisc.edu. The UW–Madison Geology Museum (UWGM) is a geology and paleontology museum housed in Weeks Hall, in the southwest part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. The museum's main undertakings are exhibits, outreach to the public, and research. It has the second highest attendance of any museum at the ...
Centipedes of the Mazon Creek fossil beds is a small stub that would be better covered here with the other fossils, rather then as a stand an almost orphan.--Kev min § 15:55, 14 September 2011 (UTC) Done. --Stemonitis 15:05, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Fossil Legends of the First Americans. Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-691-11345-9. Mikulic, Donald G. The Reefs that Made Milwaukee Famous. Geoscience Wisconsin. Volume 18. 2001. Mikulic, D.G. and Kluessendorf, J. Illinois’ State Fossil— Tullimonstrum gregarium. Geobit 5.
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