Mazon Creek Fossil Flora Annularia inflata ancestral horsetail, R.M. Angkuw.
Note: the above page is still under construction.
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Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna Elonichthys hypsilepus paleoniscoid fish, MPM VP-359230.
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The slides contained on this page are excerpted from a presentation I gave at the Milwaukee Public Museum in 2016 entitled, Coal, Shale and Ironstone: The Geology and Paleontology of Mazon Creek. The remaining images from the talk are sprinkled into the galleries of Mazon Creek fossil plants and animals above.
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Header image: A detail of a Carboniferous coal swamp diorama from the The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. The paleontology image is of a generalized Pennsylvanian Period riverbank scene painted by Walter Myers (Figure viii.1 The Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna, ESCONI publication 2012).
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