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Hey everybody! Welcome to my Mazon Creek thread, where I’ll be posting pictures of various Mazon Creek finds!

I’ve been hunting there for upwards of 10 years, so I have piles of uncracked nodules just waiting to be opened. So as they open, they’ll find their way here!

Feel free to jump in and add your own and keep this thread going!

And I’m sure there are many that have gone unidentified, so I’ll probably need some help from the experts!

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42 minutes ago, gieserguy said:

Let’s start this off with some beautiful Esexella asherae jellyfish

I love the Mazon Creek flora and fauna too! 

Here's my Essexella. 

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Thanks, Ralph! @Nimravis

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22 minutes ago, gieserguy said:

A small, but beautifully preserved Neuropteris leaf and stem piece

Nice! :)

Here's mine, again thank you to Ralph.

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Another unidentified specimen, and I’m not even sure what phylum to start with

 

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This is an unidentied arthropod part that was identified (I know, ironic right?) by Jack Wittry several years ago, something to do with microscopic cilia or something like that...

 

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6 minutes ago, gieserguy said:

Possibly Cyclus sp. though I’ve never been able to identify it.

Not sure, maybe another Essexella? Someone from the area may know. 

Here's my Cyclus americanus with its central ridge. 

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8 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Not sure, maybe another Essexella? Someone from the area may know. 

Hm, that could be true. I’m just going by the symmetrical almost-ring shape that’s present. Doesn’t necessarily rule out Cyclus obesus, though (but it’s a rare species so that’s not very likely)

 

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These are interesting finds! Do you find them in dry or wet creeks? How do you split them open? I have some St Clair, PA fern fossils. Are yours similar to PA fossils? Thanks.

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4 minutes ago, Bronzviking said:

These are interesting finds! Do you find them in dry or wet creeks? How do you split them open? I have some St Clair, PA fern fossils. Are yours similar to PA fossils? Thanks.

We actually find them in spoil piles left over from when the area was a coal mine! We split them open with the freezing and thawing method, so just constant freezing and thawing in water to cleanly separate them along their fault. 

I’m not exactly sure how they compare since to PA ferns since I’m not familiar with them, but I’ll post some Mazon ferns soon! (Probably in a couple hours, so stay posted!)

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I’ll be posting more tomorrow as I got home later than expected. I’ve got a lot of material to sort through! I’ll be looking at pre-cracked and uncracked material and sorting them out and relocating them. Stay tuned!

 

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Do you have any Tully monsters?

If you're a fossil nut from Palos Verdes, San Pedro, Redondo Beach, or Torrance, feel free to shoot me a PM!

 

 

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I only have a nice Cyclus americanus, but I do hope to expand on Mazon Creek specimens in my collection. I find it a very interesting fossil location :) 

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10 hours ago, Macrophyseter said:

Do you have any Tully monsters?

Oh gosh I wish I did! That’s the highest on my fossil wanted list. Where we collect doesn’t seem to produce Tullies, but there’s always hope that it might be in one of those boxes...

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@Bronzviking order up, some plants are on the way!

(disclaimer: where we collect doesn’t seem to have many plant fossils, mostly fauna, so most/all of these were either gifted or purchased)

 

I believe this is a Pecopteris (as most are) and this was found in my great grandmothers freezer!

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This is is a really unusual one, there is a fossil on both sides of this single piece!

 

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