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  • The Mazon Creek fossil beds are a conservation lagerstätte found near Morris, in Grundy County, Illinois. The fossils are preserved in ironstone concretions...
    14 KB (1,413 words) - 06:02, 21 February 2024
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    Tullimonstrum (category Fossil taxa described in 1966)
    the Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois, United States. Its classification has been the subject of controversy, and interpretations of the fossil have...
    31 KB (3,226 words) - 09:36, 22 March 2024
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    (Mazoscolopendra and poorly known Palenarthrus), have been described from the Mazon Creek fossil beds, which are Carboniferous, 309–307 mya. More species appear in the...
    47 KB (4,531 words) - 15:59, 9 April 2024
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    Carboniferous fossils; it contains a single species, E. asherae. It is one of the most recurrent organisms in the Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois;...
    5 KB (379 words) - 23:59, 25 March 2024
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    epithet of "six-winged insects". The Holotype fossil of Mazothairos was found in the Mazon Creek fossil beds in modern-day Illinois, a lagerstätte formed...
    4 KB (428 words) - 16:48, 17 January 2024
  • Pohlsepia (category Fossil taxa described in 2000)
    exceptionally preserved fossil discovered in the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) Francis Creek Shale (Mazon Creek fossil beds) of the Carbondale Formation...
    9 KB (1,031 words) - 09:32, 22 March 2024
  • This list of fossil arthropods described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and other fossil arthropods...
    175 KB (9,235 words) - 08:52, 7 March 2024
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    morphological detail can be preserved. Nodules from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois, US, are among the best documented examples of such...
    104 KB (10,815 words) - 10:32, 18 April 2024
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    Shale – Fossil-bearing rock formation in the Canadian Rockies Marcellus Formation – Middle Devonian age unit of sedimentary rock Mazon Creek fossil beds – Conservation...
    21 KB (2,556 words) - 16:04, 18 April 2024
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    Pipiscius (category Fossil taxa described in 1977)
    The genus contains a single species, P. zangerli, known from the Mazon Creek fossil beds located in present-day Illinois. It has a distinctive crown-like...
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    Myxinikela (category Fossil taxa described in 1991)
    modern hagfishes. Myxinikela is known from two specimens from the Mazon Creek fossil beds; such fossilized cyclostome specimens are rare due to their soft...
    3 KB (283 words) - 16:28, 13 March 2024
  • marginal marine beds of southern France by Trabelsi, Sames & Martín-Closas (2024). A study on the phylogenetic relationships of extant and fossil members of...
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    Mayomyzon (category Fossil taxa described in 1968)
    family Mayomyzontidae. It is known from the Mazon Creek fossil beds located in present-day Illinois. The fossil of M. pieckoensis is preserved as a carbon...
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    Joermungandr bolti (category Fossil taxa described in 2021)
    extinct genus of recumbirostran tetrapod from the Late Carboniferous Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois. It currently contains a single species, Joermungandr...
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  • Etacystis (category Fossil taxa described in 1976)
    hydrozoan affinity. Examples of Etacystis have been found only in the Mazon Creek fossil beds of the Midwestern United States. Etacystis communis takes its genus...
    5 KB (514 words) - 00:15, 26 August 2023
  • Mazoscolopendra (category Fossil taxa described in 1979)
    existed during the Carboniferous in what is now Illinois (found in Mazon Creek fossil beds). With length up to 53 millimetres (2.1 in), this centipede had...
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    Tyrannophontes (category Fossil taxa described in 1998)
    lived during the late Carboniferous period in what is now the Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois. It is the only genus in the family Tyrannophontidae...
    13 KB (1,559 words) - 21:06, 6 April 2024
  • scyphozoan jellyfish known from the Late Carboniferous sediments of the Mazon Creek fossil beds. It contains a single species, O. pieckorum. It was first described...
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    deciduous. In the famous Mazon Creek Fossil Beds of Illinois, these leaflets are one of the most commonly found plant fossils. The leaves have thick cuticles...
    24 KB (2,625 words) - 06:46, 2 September 2023
  • Nagini mazonense (category Fossil taxa described in 2022)
    recumbirostran tetrapods from the middle Carboniferous of the Mazon Creek fossil beds, Illinois, United States. The type and only species, Nagini mazonense...
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