This is Mazon Monday post #134. What's your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:[email protected]. Thanks!
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The 2022 Mazon Creek Open House was held on Saturday, October 15th, 2022 at Cantigny Park in Wheaton, IL. It was a rousing success! We had around 100 visitors throughout the day. There was plenty to talk about as we had three display cases of fossils - two from the Field Museum, which included the holotype for Exessella asherae and one case of fossils from ESCONI members Keith Robitschek, Andy Jansen, and Rich Holm.
Here are a few random photos from the day.
We can release videos of three of the presentations today. The presentation by Jason Pardo will be released after his research is published.
2022 Mazon Creek Open House - "The Tully Monster: Identity, Morphology, and Ecology". Presented by Victoria E. McCoy. University of Wisconson-Milwaukee.
2022 Mazon Creek Open House - "The Mazon Creek Cnidarian Essexella: The World Turned Upside Down". Presented by Roy E. Plotnick, Universiity of Illinois at Chicago
2022 Mazon Creek Open House - "Snapshot in time - Geologic Secrets of the Springfield Coal Fossilized Forests". Presented by Scott Elrick, Head of Coal, Bedrock Geology and Industrial Minerals Section - ISGS
