Mazon Creek fossil beds
The Mazon Creek fossil beds are a conservation lagerstätte found near Morris, in Grundy County, Illinois. The fossils are preserved in ironstone concretions, formed approximately 300 million years ago in the mid-Pennsylvanian epoch of the Carboniferous period. These concretions frequently preserve both hard and soft tissues of animal and plant materials, as well as many soft-bodied organisms that do not normally fossilize. The quality, quantity and diversity of fossils in the area, known since the mid-nineteenth century, make the Mazon Creek lagerstätte important to paleontologists, in attempting to reconstruct the paleoecology of the sites. The locality was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.
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Mazon Creek fossil beds
The Mazon Creek fossil beds are a conservation lagerstätte found near Morris, in Grundy County, Illinois. The fossils are preserved in ironstone concretions, formed approximately 300 million years ago in the mid-Pennsylvanian epoch of the Carboniferous period. These concretions frequently preserve both hard and soft tissues of animal and plant materials, as well as many soft-bodied organisms that do not normally fossilize. The quality, quantity and diversity of fossils in the area, known since the mid-nineteenth century, make the Mazon Creek lagerstätte important to paleontologists, in attempting to reconstruct the paleoecology of the sites. The locality was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.
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Il giacimento di Mazon Creek, ...... nella preservazione dei resti.
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Les fossiles de Mazon Creek se ...... uire la paléoécologie du site.
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Mazon Creek – stanowisko paleo ...... górny: westfal A) w Sosnowcu.
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The Mazon Creek fossil beds ar ...... nal Historic Landmark in 1997.
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Il giacimento di Mazon Creek, ...... nella preservazione dei resti.
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Les fossiles de Mazon Creek se ...... nt que le lagerstätte de Mazon
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Mazon Creek – stanowisko paleo ...... dcisków także części miękkich.
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The Mazon Creek fossil beds ar ...... nal Historic Landmark in 1997.
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Fossiles de Mazon Creek
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Mazon Creek fossil beds
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Mazon Creek
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Mazon Creek
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