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Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna

Arthropods 

Higher Crustaceans - Class Malacostraca    

Marine-Estuarine Shrimp and Lobsters


Marine-Estuarine Shrimp

​Fossil shrimp were first reported from the Mazon Creek area around 1860, but prior to the opening of Pit 11 the diversity was remarkably small. Now, they are divided into robust non-marine and marine-estuarine groups. These fossil arthropods are preserved in full-body detail or as exoskeleton molts.

Tyrannophontes theridion

mantis shrimp
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                                                               Tyrannophontes theridion, A. Jansen, Braidwood, IL

Kallidecthes richardsoni

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Belotelson magister

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Lobetelson mclaughlinae

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Peachocaris strongi 


Essoidia epiceron

S-shrimp
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Hesslerella shermani

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Lobsters

Mamayocaris jaskoskii

Mamayocaris jaskowskii is a moderate-sized crayfish-like animal, probably a scavenger or low-level carnivore, and is a member of the marine Essex Biota.
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Phyllocarids

Dithyrocaris sp.

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Kellibrooksia macrogaster

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Shrimp Molts

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Indeterminate shrimp

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    • recent sculpture
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    • egg tempera on panel
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  • Bio
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    • resume
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