This is Throwback Thursday #29. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc ...), please sent them to esconi[email protected]. Thanks!
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For a few years, the Paleontology Study Group held a Best Fossil contest for National Fossil Day. The first one was back in 2015. We had some awesome specimens. Here are some photo highlights from that day.
Wow! Having fun in person!
Nice Mazon Creek fern... Crenulopteris.
An amazing crinoid!
An enrolled Isotelus and another Crenulopteris.
An unbelievable shark egg case! Look closely, there's a horseshoe crab on there too!
Shark teeth... Megalodon.
Alethopteris serlii from Mazon Creek.
Fish from the Green River Formation
Inoceramus from the Cretaceous
Awesome Isotelus found in the Larson Quarry near DeKalb, IL
