Lot 890
Collection Of Mazon Creek Fossils. Mazon Creek is famous for the wide variety of 300 million year old plants and animals that were found in the Francis Creek Shale of Illinois. Some animals with shell are present but it is the rare soft bodied fossils that make this fossil deposit so special. This collection of eleven different fossils that are representative of the types of fossils present start out with the most famous fossil to be found in Mazon Creek, that is the Tully monster. The Tully monster was a strange looking soft bodied predator that was long with small fins, two eyes on stalks and most strangely a long proboscis that ended in a claw or jaw. This is the Illinois state fossil and is found no where else on earth. The excellent specimen in this collection is 3.5 inches long and is more complete than usual, missing only the fins and the claw at the tip of the proboscis. The other interesting soft bodied and shelled fossils in this collection include two different jelly fish, a small shrimp, two different worms, two different kinds of leaves, a shell and a clam, and lastly, a very strange animal called a cyclus, which was round with antennae, unlike any other animal known. All of these fossils are above average for their type and rare. Housed in a 12 x 8 inch Riker mount.
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Estimated Value $300 - 400.
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