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A Mazon Creek insect is up today... a Eubleptus danielsi from the Mazon River. The concretion was collected in 2020 at the I&M Canal Corridor Fossil Field Trip. The species is named for L.E. Daniels a prolific early collector of Mazon Creek and other Carboniferous fossils. His collection resides at the Illinois State Museum.
The following drawing comes from the "Richardson's Guide to the Fossil Fauna of Mazon Creek".
Figure 14A.12. Eubleptus danielsi, reconstruction by Carpenter (1983). Scale bar = 10 mm. Abbreviations: a, antenna; ab, abdomen; c, cerci; f, foreleg; fw, forewing; h, head; hw, hind wing; p, prothorax.
Here is the specimen. It was in the freeze/thaw for about 6 months or so. Cycling in and out a few times a week.
