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From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Essexella asherae Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
any possibility for IL fossil hunting in the winter? where?
rocks in my pockets posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
hey! brand new to the forum. tagged mazon creek because I think that's the most popular spot in IL but I'm aware it's not open to the public at the moment. does anyone know of spots that are open to the public in the winter? anywhere in IL? otherwise, any connections with landowners have access to fossil beds? nowhere with disputed ownership/right on the border between public and private, not looking to put myself and my friends in an unsafe situation especially during deer season. I would really appreciate some input! don't need anything special, just wanna go poking around in the dirt with my friends. :) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Plant, Coprolite Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Plant Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Essexella asherae Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Unknown Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Plant Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Plant Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Plant Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Plant Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Plant Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Plant Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Coprolite Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Wood Fragment Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Myriapoda Mazon Creek, IL (Mazon Creek Private Property) Francis Creek Shale Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian) -
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From the album: My trilobites
A Calymene celebra from Grafton IL (Silurian) -
I'm new to this site and I'm trying to find some more information about some interesting things I found in my area. While exploring the lakeshore we found some odd looking round pieces of what we thought were rocks. We found a few that looked like a hickory nut with about half of the outer shell still attached. They are hard like rocks but look exactly like hickory nuts. We came across a patch of slate and a few pieces had circular indents in them. We kept exploring and found a piece of slate that had one of the nuts still embedded in it. The part of the lake bed we were exploring is normally under water when the lake is at full pool. Could these actually be petrified hickory nuts? Has anyone else found items similar to these?
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After being in and out of the freezer since October this concretion opened yesterday. It is different than anything I've seen before and I haven't been able to match it to anything online or in Wittry's books. I am assuming it is fauna but I'm really not sure. Of course it could be a jellyfish but I've never seen one like this before. Could it be a cephalopod?
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I found this concretion already opened and heavily coated with dirt and minerals. The few parts I could see poking through gave me hope something was preserved. Now that I have cleaned it up, I am still trying to figure out whether or not the concretion contains a fossil. It can look very different depending on the way you position it. I see a jellyfish looking mantle but the tentacles look different from what I have seen before. Positioned vertically, I start to lose the jellyfish and wonder if it is a partial annularia. Or maybe it is just a lumpily split concretion.
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Last time I was hunting fossils at Mazonia I picked up some rocks I found interesting. I don't know if they are fossils or not. The first is full of tiny holes I thought might have been caused by animals-or water .
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I have two different nodules from September that I think may be Sphenophyllum. Both nodules were found open, one had one half heavily covered in minerals. I did a short rinse in vinegar to clean that off.
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I found this half of an open nodule last September when I was hunting at Mazonia Braidwood. It was covered in dirt so I took it home to see if anything would show up when I cleaned it up. The dirt rinsed off easily and I was surprised to find a layered, smooth surface on the inner half. The feel and patterns of colors remind me of the inside of a shell. Has anyone seen this before or have any ideas about what this is?
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