Mazon Creek Collection- Purchased

[Nimravis]

Tully Monsters-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[stats]

I am amazed by the size of the flora pieces.  I never would have guessed these came from Pit 11.

 

I need more popcorn!

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

[Nimravis]

8 hours ago, stats said:

I am amazed by the size of the flora pieces.  I never would have guessed these came from Pit 11.

 

I need more popcorn!

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

He did collect at Pit 4 with Walter and myself from time to time, but I do not recall him finding pieces this big and Walter also had big ferns that he found at Pit 11. In addition, the ferns that I found at Pit 4 were nice, but not as nice as these. He was not one to clean the fossils and they are as the were found. Lastly, he told me that he collected at Pit 14 twice, he may have found some there, but not as many as are in the collection.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Nimravis

[Mark Kmiecik]

NE area of pit 11, up towards the Wilmington Sportsmen's Club had some large flora way back in the day according to some of the old collectors from ESCONI that I talked to in the 90's.

[Caverat]

I was a guest in the 1970's at the home of one of the early collectors and he showed me a "V" shaped concretion nearly a foot long in each axis with a beautifully preserved fern in each axis. their stems touched or overlapped at the bases. The largest I ever found was a one foot concretion with a 9" long segment of Lepidodendron.

[Nimravis]

Today I started back on some worms- here are some pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks like coprolite in the midsection.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 10, 2022 by Nimravis

[Nimravis]

Here are so worms from tonight-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nimravis]

Tonight I was dealing with a few more Tully Monsters, a couple Cyclus americanus and a couple unknowns.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This next piece was like you see below-

 

 

I then tapped it a couple times and was able to pop it open.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cyclus-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unknowns-

 

 

 

 

[Nimravis]

Today I work on some of the white boxes that contained Shrimp. Below is an example of what the box looks like.

 

 

These fossils were mounted with a sticky material that I believe was used for fake flowers. This is the way a number of older collectors would mount their fossils, and I have to admit that I did the same thing since that is how I was taught, I later turned to White school glue.

 

When I talk it out of the box, thus what the back looks like.

 

 

The above piece has two different pieces of this sticky mounting stuff on it. I then use a dull scalpel to try to remove most of the stuff, see below.

 

 

It is a time consuming process and I have never cut my hand- fingers crossed. Just thinking, I may have posted this process earlier, sorry if this info is a repeat.

 

Now on with the shrimp and shrimp molts, there are a bunch of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thinking this one is shrimpy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was my favorite one from today.

 

 

 

 

Continued on next post.

[Nimravis]

Continued from last post-

 

 

 

 

 

[Nimravis]

Here are a few more for tonight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nimravis]

This morning I continued to go through boxes with more shrimp, I will continue that process later today, here are pieces from this AM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nimravis]

My trip down “Shrimpy Street” continued this evening, here are some of the fossils.

 

I really like this one-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[stats]

Crazy number of stops on that street...

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

 

[stats]

6 hours ago, Nimravis said:

This morning I continued to go through boxes with more shrimp, I will continue that process later today, here are pieces from this AM.

 

That one is posed like mine from a few years ago.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

[Nimravis]

This evening I decided to go through some worms, here are some of them.

 

Here is a nice Fossundecima konecniorum with nicely preserved jaws.

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some other miscellaneous worms-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am unsure with these two- don’t believe they are worms, the bigger one might be a lamprey or a Gilpichthys greenei.

 

 

 

[Nimravis]

Tonight I continued to go through the collection and worked on a few worms and a couple more Tully Monster’s that I had not posted.

 

Misc Worms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tully Monster parts-

 

A beautiful tail:

 

 

A few more pieces-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nimravis]

It has been a while since I worked on this collection, here are a couple pieces that I dealt with tonight.

 

A couple more Tully Monster parts-

 

 

 

 

 

Aviculopecten mazonensis 

 

 

Dunbarella striata

 

 

 

 

Mazonomya mazonensis 

 

 

Achistrum sp.

 

 

Coprinoscolex ellogimus 

 

 

 

A few miscellaneous worms-

 

 

 

 

 

 

[scairp]

Beauties!! thanks for showing

[Nimravis]

I was able to get to a couple pieces tonight, here are some weak miscellaneous worms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think this fossil contains Ostracods, but not positive.

 

 

 

 

 

[deutscheben]

I think those may be large spores (megaspores) coming out of  a Lepidocystis. See an example from the Field Museum here: https://collections-geology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/2276016

[Nimravis]

25 minutes ago, deutscheben said:

I think those may be large spores (megaspores) coming out of  a Lepidocystis. See an example from the Field Museum here: https://collections-geology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/2276016

Thanks Ben- that is exactly what they are. Thank you very much for that ID, it is an almost exact match to their pics.

[stats]

40 minutes ago, deutscheben said:

I think those may be large spores (megaspores) coming out of  a Lepidocystis. See an example from the Field Museum here: https://collections-geology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/2276016

I agree.  Definitely a spore/seed pod.

https://www.georgesbasement.com/Langford-WilmingtonCoalFlora/Webpage/LepidocystisincludingLmissouriensisandtriletesP40.htm

 

Funny, was thinking of doing a post on these.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

Edited November 17, 2022 by stats

[Wrangellian]

Wow... This collection was amazing after the first couple pages... now it's unbelievable, especially considering how hard it is to acquire a decent example of any given taxon through the usual online source. (I know things were different back in the day.)

Interesting how that eye-bar thing could separate from the Tully body occasionally.

[Nimravis]

39 minutes ago, Wrangellian said:

Wow... This collection was amazing after the first couple pages... now it's unbelievable, especially considering how hard it is to acquire a decent example of any given taxon through the usual online source. (I know things were different back in the day.)

Interesting how that eye-bar thing could separate from the Tully body occasionally.

I agree with everything that you said.