A Quick Trip To The Mazon Creek South Unit in Late April Like the past 3 years, it has so far been a very late spring here. While the rest of the U.S. is enjoying 60-degree plus weather, Chicagoland is still recovering from the last blanket of snow. This weekend though, was the first taste […]
Mazon Creek Pit 11 Collecting Report- Islands and Braceville Hill Late 2017
Mazon Creek Collecting Report #4 Yesterday, on September 30, marks the last day of the Fossil Collecting season of the Mazonia State Fish and Wildlife area for 2017. I did not go collect then, the area is quite overgrown regardless. This post briefly highlights 2 end-of season hunts in the previous weekends. One of which […]
Mazon Creek- the 4 Tully Monster finds of 2016
This year, 4 excellent specimens of Illinois’ State Fossil, the Tullimonstrum gregarium aka Tully Monsters, were unearthed from the famous fossil beds of Mazon Creek’s Pit 11. 2 were found in early March, coincidentally on the same day, another in July 2016, and then the 4th in November. It is possible that more were found this year, […]
