Episode 110 - Mazon Creek Fossil Beds

Go searching in the right spots in Illinois and you’re liable to find a hard chunk of ironstone with a gorgeous fossil inside. The Mazon Creek Fossil Beds represent some of the best Carboniferous fossils in the world, yielding exceptionally preserved plants and animals from a tropical river delta over 300 million years old. This episode, we discuss the history, the geology, and some of the most famously bizarre creatures of Mazon Creek.

In the news: a “winged” shark, digging ankylosaurs, the oldest cephalopods, and a fly full of pollen.

Time markers:

Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00

News: 00:04:30

Main discussion, Part 1: 00:33:30

Main discussion, Part 2: 00:56:00

Patron question: 01:22:00

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Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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