The Mazon Creek fossil beds are a conservation lagerstätte found near Morris, in Grundy County, Illinois. The fossils are preserved in ironstone concretions...
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Tullimonstrum (category Fossil taxa described in 1966)
the Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois, United States. Its classification has been the subject of controversy, and interpretations of the fossil have...
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Centipede (section Fossil history)
and the poorly known Palenarthrus), have been described from the Mazon Creek fossil beds, which are Carboniferous, 309–307 mya. More species appear in the...
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epithet of "six-winged insects". The Holotype fossil of Mazothairos was found in the Mazon Creek fossil beds in modern-day Illinois, a lagerstätte formed...
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Pohlsepia (category Fossil taxa described in 2000)
exceptionally preserved fossil discovered in the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) Francis Creek Shale (Mazon Creek fossil beds) of the Carbondale Formation...
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Carboniferous fossils; it contains a single species, E. asherae. It is one of the most recurrent organisms in the Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois;...
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morphological detail can be preserved. Nodules from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois, US, are among the best documented examples of such...
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This list of fossil arthropods described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and other fossil arthropods...
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Tyrannophontes (category Fossil taxa described in 1998)
lived during the late Carboniferous period in what is now the Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois. It is the only genus in the family Tyrannophontidae...
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Shale – Fossil-bearing rock formation in the Canadian Rockies Marcellus Formation – Middle Devonian age unit of sedimentary rock Mazon Creek fossil beds – Conservation...
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Nagini mazonense (category Fossil taxa described in 2022)
recumbirostran tetrapods from the middle Carboniferous of the Mazon Creek fossil beds, Illinois, United States. The type and only species, Nagini mazonense...
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Pipiscius (category Fossil taxa described in 1977)
The genus contains a single species, P. zangerli, known from the Mazon Creek fossil beds located in present-day Illinois. It has a distinctive crown-like...
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Mazoscolopendra (category Fossil taxa described in 1979)
existed during the Carboniferous in what is now Illinois (found in Mazon Creek fossil beds). With length up to 53 millimetres (2.1 in), this centipede had...
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Myxinikela (category Fossil taxa described in 1991)
modern hagfishes. Myxinikela is known from two specimens from the Mazon Creek fossil beds; such fossilized cyclostome specimens are rare due to their soft...
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Lagerstätte (redirect from Fossil beds)
into a siderite concretion or coal ball encasing the fossil, as found in the Mazon Creek fossil beds). Rapid sediment cementation (impressions of soft tissue...
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Joermungandr bolti (category Fossil taxa described in 2021)
extinct genus of recumbirostran tetrapod from the Late Carboniferous Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois. It currently contains a single species, Joermungandr...
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Protosolpuga (category Fossil taxa described in 1913)
Protosolpugidae. This Carboniferous camel spider was discovered in the Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois. Paleontology portal Arthropods portal "†Protosolpuga...
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Latzelia (category Fossil taxa described in 1890)
existed during the Carboniferous in what is now Illinois (found in Mazon Creek fossil beds). It was described by Samuel Hubbard Scudder in 1890, and the type...
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Etacystis (category Fossil taxa described in 1976)
hydrozoan affinity. Examples of Etacystis have been found only in the Mazon Creek fossil beds of the Midwestern United States. Etacystis communis takes its genus...
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Mayomyzon (category Fossil taxa described in 1968)
family Mayomyzontidae. It is known from the Mazon Creek fossil beds located in present-day Illinois. The fossil of M. pieckoensis is preserved as a carbon...
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scyphozoan jellyfish known from the Late Carboniferous sediments of the Mazon Creek fossil beds. It contains a single species, O. pieckorum. It was first described...
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marginal marine beds of southern France by Trabelsi, Sames & Martín-Closas (2024). A study on the phylogenetic relationships of extant and fossil members of...
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deciduous. In the famous Mazon Creek Fossil Beds of Illinois, these leaflets are one of the most commonly found plant fossils. The leaves have thick cuticles...
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Vachel Lindsay House Old State Capitol Owen Lovejoy House Mazon Creek Fossil Beds Pierre Menard House Modoc Rock Shelter Morrow Plots UIUC Observatory...
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worms are seldom found as fossils. The oldest known unambiguous example is Coprinoscolex ellogimus from the Mazon Creek fossil beds in Illinois, dating back...
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America, fossils of lysorophians have been found from places such as the Cutler Formation in San Juan County, Utah and the Mazon Creek fossil beds in Grundy...
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Palenarthrus (category Fossil taxa described in 1890)
existed during the Carboniferous in what is now Illinois (found in Mazon Creek fossil beds). This genus is known from single poorly preserved specimen, which...
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Cope to refer to embolomere fossils spanning anywhere between mid-Pennsylvanian deposits of Illinois and the Permian red beds of Texas. Most paleontologists...
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with the Mazon Creek fossils of the Francis Creek Shale, which are also exposed in strip mines and quarries near the River. This fossil bed includes well-preserved...
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Pseudophlegethontia (category Fossil taxa described in 2003)
species P. turnbullorum, named in 2003. Fossils of Pseudophlegethontia have been found from the Mazon Creek fossil beds in Grundy County, Illinois, a conservation...
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