Mazon Creek Fossils​

Collecting and Research
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In his 1989 book, Wonderful Life, American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science, Stephen Jay Gould, called the Mazon Creek deposit “One of the three greatest Lagerstätten (or Mother Lodes) of the Paleozoic Era.”

           Mazon Creek Fossil Flora

            Annularia inflata ancestral horsetail, R.M. Angkuw.

          Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna

     Elonichthys hypsilepus ​paleoniscoid fish, MPM VP-359230.

Collecting in the field

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       Mazon River - private property.
    20th century coal strip mine spoils.
    19th century coal shaft mine spoils.