New finds from old concretions that I had gathered from 2016-2020. Many of these have been through several freeze thaw cycles and didn’t break open, so I don’t mind using the rock hammer on these. Plus, these have mostly been from my ‘dud’ bucket, or concretions that don’t look like they’d hold a fossil, but […]
Day 6
Day 6 of ‘shelter in place’ brings a Riker case of Mazon Creek fossils collected ~2017 out of a box I’ve been meaning to go through. There is a jellyfish, and a few species of plants. Followed by a walk in the park with the pup. Blackwell park is unfortunately closed to fishing. A dead, […]
Mazon Creek Fossil Collecting March 1, 2020
A few weeks ago, in simpler times, I partook in my annual fossil collecting trip to the famous site of Mazon Creek’s Pit 11. I was joined by a couple old collecting friends and a few new ones as well. I also saw and met many people on the trails and in the parking lot […]
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 Pit 11 collecting report 4/9/2017
Mazon Creek Collecting report #2 I’ve made a couple shorter trips to Pit 11 between this and my last trip report that went undocumented. To be honest, sometimes I do not have the patience to take pictures, or the time to post quality reports, and some are better left as a peaceful, solo venture into nature […]
Mazon Creek Fossil Collecting Opener and Trip Report 3/5/17
Mazon Creek Fossil Collecting Trip #1 This is a field report from the first Mazon Creek trip of 2017. This will be the 3rd consecutive year of keeping record of productive fossil collecting areas across the vast wilderness of the Mazonia Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife Area. The work thus far is documented in an […]
