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Mazon Creek; Interesting Find...


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Any ideas on this one? Found it at Pit 11, 1960s. I have it as the head of a chaetognath, or similar worm. But it's almost like a petrified specimen, and that's what's so strange. Just never seen anything like it out of Mazon. Hope these pics come out (my first time at that)...

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It's a nice, partly articulated clam (I think). Good 3-D Creek fossil!

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

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It's a kind of clam....can't remember the species.

Thanks. See what I thought? This is a photo of a chaetognath head...

Anyway, looked through the ISM database about a year ago, and couldn't find anything like it. Also, been to the Field Museum of Natural History, looked through some of that exhaustive collection, and no such luck...

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Your's is very 3-D. Here's a pic of a typical Creek clam:

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"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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