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Richardson's Guide to the Fossil Fauna of Mazon Creek. Northeastern Illinois University. ISBN 978-0-925065-21-6. Jack Wittry (2006). The Mazon Creek Fossil Flora. Esconi. ISBN 978-1-932433-71-5. Jack Wittry (2012). The Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna. Esconi. ISBN 978-0578111483. Jack Wittry (2020). A Comprehensive Guide to the Fossil Flora of Mazon ...
Fossils are common from the Ordovician through the Pennsylvanian. Illinois has a reputation for rocks bearing large numbers of trilobite fossils, often of very high preservational quality. [1] There is a gap in Illinois' geologic record from the Mesozoic to the Pleistocene. During the Ice Age, Illinois was subject to glacial activity.
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. †Isotelus †Isotelus gigas †Isotelus maximus †Kionoceras †Latzelia – type locality for genus †Latzelia primordialis – type locality for species †Lepidodendron †Lepidodendron aculeatum †Lepidophyllum †Lepidostrobus †Lichas †Lingula †Liroceras; Lithophaga ...
The confluence is near Morris, Illinois. [2] The Mazon River is associated 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 fossils from the Pennsylvanian period of the Paleozoic era and is a world-famous Lagerstätten site.
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Illinois, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation ... Tar Springs Formation: Carboniferous:
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Expert fossil preparator Bob Masek first discovered the specimen in the 1980s in the fossil deposits preserved at Illinois’ Mazon Creek Lagerstätte. (The German word is a term paleontologists ...
The Kimmswick Limestone is an Ordovician geologic formation in Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri. Fossils occurring in the Kimmswick include corals , bryozoans , brachiopods , conodonts , [ 4 ] trilobites , crinoids and mollusks .