Mazon Creek Fossils
Collecting and Research
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Mazon Creek Area Paleontology
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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 below.
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Mazon Creek Fossil Flora
Annularia inflata ancestral horsetail, R.M. Angkuw.
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Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna
Elonichthys hypsilepus paleoniscoid fish, MPM VP-359230.
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Collecting in the Field
Mazon River - private property.
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20th century coal strip mine spoils.
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19th century coal shaft mine spoils.
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