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Here are the last of recently collected Mazon material with fossils already showing. More to come as the freeze-thaw cycles take effect. Thanks as always @Nimravis @stats @RCFossils @deutscheben @Mark Kmiecik @Runner64 Specimen 1 (4.1 cm long) — A fern, found as is. Enough detail for an ID? Specimen 2 (9.1 cm long) — Macroneuropteris? Found as is. Did a light vinegar wash. Specimen 3 (2.7 cm in diameter) — Found already split. D and E illuminated to show relief. Now that my copy of Wittry's Fauna has arrived, I wonder if this might be Essexella asherae, as there appears to be a semi-circular feature above a more rectangular feature, perhaps most visible in C and E. Specimen 4 (~15.5 cm in diameter) — Found already split. I cannot make much sense of this. Maybe a jumble of plant pieces? D and E illuminated to show relief. There seem to be some fossily features, like 3 or 4 repeated ridges in the bottom right of D, a long linear feature in the upper right of D (some of the material here is dirt, I realized after taking the photos). The patches of different color in B don't obviously correspond to the different relief elements in D.
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Hi guys! Newbie here and finally joined so i could post this after our recent opening day trip to Mazon Creek, Mazonia-Braidwood and Pit 11. My daughter and I found this one and I can't tell if its nothing or something. Maybe an essexella asherae jellyfish? or maybe i'm dreaming. It was already split, we haven't done our freeze/thaw yet on the whole nodules yet. Seems we did manage to get at least two of the pieces that go together - could possibly have the last piece in the bucket still as we are still going through our haul, but after a preliminary look, I suspect this is all we have. I tried to get a few pics the best i could, but they now don't look as good as i thought. And I just read that using coins for scale is not a good idea - sorry. Hoping my Mazon experts out there will be more familiar with US currency, anyway. So - these are the same nodule from a few angles and one pic with the two pieces together. Any ideas? Or maybe it's nothing. I know i have a small one with annularia. This is one of the largest we found, so maybe it's just wishful thinking. After hours of looking at these things, i think i could see fossils in anything now. THANK YOU! (ok, now it's not letting me add my pics - too big.) I'll be back with the rest of them as soon as i figure out how to get the size down. Sorry!)
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