This is Mazon Monday post #93. What's your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:[email protected].
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ESCONI member Ralph Jewell sent me this link for a video of a presentation by Dr. Victoria McCoy of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Department of Geosciences. Her presentation is entitled "Mazon Creek Fossils".
Dr. Victoria McCoy, UWM Department of Geosciences, discusses the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte: A diverse late Paleozoic ecosystem entombed within siderite concretions during the Fall Colloquium, Dec. 6, 2021.
Victoria has been active in Mazon Creek research. You might remember her as lead author on a study of the Tully Monster back 2016 that found it to be a vertebrate. She was interviewed about that research on Palaeocast #62.
Here is a list of some of her papers relevant to Mazon Creek. You can find more about her on her page at the UWM.
- McCoy VE, Wiemann J, Lamsdell JC, Whalen CD, Lidgard S, Mayer P, Petermann H, and Briggs DEG. In review. Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois. Geobiology.
- Cotroneo S, Schiffbauer JD, McCoy VE, Wortmann UG, Darroch SAF, Peng Y, and Laflamme M. 2016. A new model of the formation of Pennsylvanian iron carbonate concretions hosting exceptional soft‐bodied fossils in Mazon Creek, Illinois. Geobiology. doi:10.1111/gbi.12197
- McCoy VE, Saupe EE, Lamsdell JC, Tarhan LG, McMahon S, Lidgard S, Mayer P, Whalen SD, Soriano C, Finney L, Vogt S, Clark EG, Anderson RP, Petermann H, Locatelli ER, and Briggs DEG. 2016. The Tully Monster is a vertebrate. Nature 532: 496-499.
- McCoy VE, Young RT, and Briggs DEG. 2015a. Sediment permeability and the preservation of soft-tissues in concretions: an experimental study. Palaios 30: 608-612.
- McCoy VE, Young RT, and Briggs DEG. 2015b. Factors controlling exceptional preservation within concretions. Palaios 30: 272-280.
- McCoy VE. 2014. Concretions as agents of soft tissue preservation: a review. Reading and writing of the fossil record: preservational pathways to exceptional fossilization. The Paleontological Society Papers 20:147-162.
- McCoy VE. 2013. Patterns In Palaeontology: Exceptional preservation of fossils in concretions. Palaeontology Online 3: Article 7, 1-14.
- Dolak D, and McCoy VE. 2012. The concretion conundrum: Current research at Mazon Creek. Mid-American Paleontological Society Digest 35:1-23
Thanks for the contribution, Ralph!
