Mazon Creek fossil beds
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mazon-creek-fossil-beds-206-14590897
title:
Mazon Creek fossil beds
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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 309 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 t
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Conservation lagerstätte in Illinois on the National Register of Historic Places
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazon_Creek_fossil_beds
date created:
2005-05-30T01:52:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T19:05:52Z
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