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94 relations: Acitheca, Alethopteris, Alleghanian orogeny, Amphibian, Annularia, Arachnid, Beetle, Belotelson, Brill Publishers, Burgess Shale, Calamites, Carbon dioxide, Carboniferous, Centipede, Chicago Reader, Clam, Coal mining, Columbia University Press, Concretion, Cordaites, Crustacean, Decomposition, Drainage system (geomorphology), Equator, Equisetopsida, Equisetum, Essexella, Etacystis, Eurypterid, Fish, Fresh water, Groundwater, Grundy County, Illinois, Gymnosperm, Hamilton Quarry, Hemichordate, Horseshoe crab, Illinois River, Insect, Ironstone, Jellyfish, Journal of Paleontology, Kankakee County, Illinois, Lagerstätte, LaSalle County, Illinois, Latitude, Latzelia, Lepidodendron, Lethaia, List of protected areas of Illinois, ..., Lithification, Livingston County, Illinois, Lycopodiopsida, Macroneuropteris, Marseilles, Illinois, Mazon River, Mazonova, Millipede, Morris, Illinois, Mudstone, National Historic Landmark, Neuropteris, Northeastern Illinois University, Ocean, Ostracod, Paleobotany, Paleoecology, Paleontology, Paleozoic, Peabody Energy, Pecopteris, Pennsylvanian (geology), Pinophyta, Pteridospermatophyta, River delta, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Scorpion, Sediment, Shale, Shrimp, Siderite, Sigillaria, Snail, Sphenophyllum, Spider, Spoil tip, Surface mining, Tissue (biology), Tropics, Tullimonstrum, Type locality (geology), Vermilion River (Illinois River), Will County, Illinois, Worm. Expand index (44 more) »
Acitheca
Acitheca is a genus of fungi within the Gymnoascaceae family.
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Alethopteris
Alethopteris is a prehistoric plant genus of fossil Pteridospermatophyta (seed ferns) that developed in the Carboniferous period (around). It is in the family Alethopteridaceae.
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Alleghanian orogeny
The Alleghanian orogeny or Appalachian orogeny is one of the geological mountain-forming events that formed the Appalachian Mountains and Allegheny Mountains.
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Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.
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Annularia
Annularia is a plant fossil belonging to the order Equisetales.
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Arachnid
Arachnids are a class (Arachnida) of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata.
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Beetle
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota.
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Belotelson
Belotelson is a genus of crustaceans, in the extinct order Belotelsonidea, containing at least two species.
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Brill Publishers
Brill (known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill Academic Publishers) is a Dutch international academic publisher founded in 1683 in Leiden, Netherlands.
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Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.
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Calamites
Calamites is a genus of extinct arborescent (tree-like) horsetails to which the modern horsetails (genus Equisetum) are closely related.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.
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Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, Mya.
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Centipede
Centipedes (from Latin prefix centi-, "hundred", and pes, pedis, "foot") are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda of the subphylum Myriapoda, an arthropod group which also includes Millipedes and other multi-legged creatures.
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Chicago Reader
The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.
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Clam
Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.
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Concretion
A concretion is a hard, compact mass of matter formed by the precipitation of mineral cement within the spaces between particles, and is found in sedimentary rock or soil.
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Cordaites
Cordaites is an important genus of extinct gymnosperms which grew on wet ground similar to the Everglades in Florida.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.
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Decomposition
Decomposition is the process by which organic substances are broken down into simpler organic matter.
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Drainage system (geomorphology)
In geomorphology, drainage systems, also known as river systems, are the patterns formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin.
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Equator
An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).
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Equisetopsida
Equisetopsida, or Sphenopsida, is a class of vascular plants with a fossil record going back to the Devonian.
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Equisetum
Equisetum (horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.
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Essexella
Essexella is an extinct genus of scyphozoan jellyfish known from Late Carboniferous fossils containing the species Essexella asherae.
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Etacystis
Etacystis communis, colloquially known as the H-animal or aitch, was a soft-bodied invertebrate that lived in shallow tropical coastal waters of muddy estuaries during the Pennsylvanian geological period, about 300 million years ago.
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Eurypterid
Eurypterids, often informally called sea scorpions, are an extinct group of arthropods related to arachnids that include the largest known arthropods to have ever lived.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Fresh water
Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Grundy County, Illinois
Grundy County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Gymnosperm
The gymnosperms are a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes.
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Hamilton Quarry
Hamilton Quarry is a Late Carboniferous lagerstätte near Hamilton, Kansas, United States.
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Hemichordate
Hemichordata is a phylum of marine deuterostome animals, generally considered the sister group of the echinoderms.
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Horseshoe crab
Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the family Limulidae, suborder Xiphosurida, and order Xiphosura.
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Illinois River
The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois language: Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Insect
Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.
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Ironstone
Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical replacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron compound from which iron either can be or once was smelted commercially.
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Jellyfish
Jellyfish or sea jelly is the informal common name given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.
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Journal of Paleontology
The Journal of Paleontology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of paleontology.
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Kankakee County, Illinois
Kankakee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Lagerstätte
A Lagerstätte (from Lager 'storage, lair' Stätte 'place'; plural Lagerstätten) is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues.
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LaSalle County, Illinois
LaSalle County is located in the North Central region of the U.S. state of Illinois; it has an estimated population of 111,241 as of 2014 and its county seat and largest city is Ottawa.
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Latitude
In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.
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Latzelia
Latzelia is an extinct genus of scutigeromorph centipedes, and the type and only genus of the family Latzeliidae.
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Lepidodendron
Lepidodendron — also known as scale tree — is an extinct genus of primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like) plant related to the lycopsids (club mosses).
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Lethaia
Lethaia is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal of Earth science, covering research on palaeontology and stratigraphy.
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List of protected areas of Illinois
Illinois has a variety of protected areas, including 123 state protected areas - state parks, wildlife areas, recreation areas, nature reserves, and state forests.
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Lithification
Lithification (from the Ancient Greek word lithos meaning 'rock' and the Latin-derived suffix -ific) is the process in which sediments compact under pressure, expel connate fluids, and gradually become solid rock.
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Livingston County, Illinois
Livingston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Lycopodiopsida
Lycopodiopsida is a class of herbaceous vascular plants known as the clubmosses and firmosses.
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Macroneuropteris
Macroneuropteris is a genus of Carboniferous seed plants in the order Medullosales.
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Marseilles, Illinois
Marseilles is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States.
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Mazon River
The Mazon River or Mazon Creek, is a tributary of the Illinois River in the United States.
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Mazonova
Mazonova is an oogenus of fossilized eggs from the Mazon Creek area in the Pennsylvanian of Illinois.
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Millipede
Millipedes are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name being derived from this feature.
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Morris, Illinois
The city of Morris is the county seat of Grundy County, Illinois, United States and part of southwest Chicagoland.
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Mudstone
Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
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National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.
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Neuropteris
Neuropteris is an extinct seed fern that existed in the Carboniferous period, known only from fossils.
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Northeastern Illinois University
Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) is a public state university located in Chicago, Illinois.
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Ocean
An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
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Ostracod
Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp.
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Paleobotany
Paleobotany, also spelled as palaeobotany (from the Greek words paleon.
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Paleoecology
Paleoecology (also spelled palaeoecology) is the study of interactions between organisms and/or interactions between organisms and their environments across geologic timescales.
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Paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era (from the Greek palaios (παλαιός), "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Peabody Energy
Peabody Energy Corporation, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is the largest private-sector coal company in the world.
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Pecopteris
Pecopteris is a very common form genus of leaves.
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Pennsylvanian (geology)
The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods (or upper of two subsystems) of the Carboniferous Period.
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Pinophyta
The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida.
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Pteridospermatophyta
The term Pteridospermatophyta (or "seed ferns" or "Pteridospermatopsida") refers to several distinct groups of extinct seed-bearing plants (spermatophytes).
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River delta
A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.
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Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Samuel Hubbard Scudder (April 13, 1837 – May 17, 1911) was an American entomologist and paleontologist.
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Scorpion
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones.
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Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.
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Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
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Shrimp
The term shrimp is used to refer to some decapod crustaceans, although the exact animals covered can vary.
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Siderite
Siderite is a mineral composed of iron(II) carbonate (FeCO3).
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Sigillaria
Sigillaria is a genus of extinct, spore-bearing, arborescent (tree-like) plants.
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Snail
Snail is a common name loosely applied to shelled gastropods.
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Sphenophyllum
Sphenophyllum is a genus in the order Sphenophyllales.
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Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.
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Spoil tip
A spoil tip (also called a spoil bank, boney pile, gob pile, bing, batch, boney dump or pit heap) is a pile built of accumulated spoil – the overburden or other waste rock removed during coal and ore mining.
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Surface mining
Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit (the overburden) are removed, in contrast to underground mining, in which the overlying rock is left in place, and the mineral is removed through shafts or tunnels.
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Tissue (biology)
In biology, tissue is a cellular organizational level between cells and a complete organ.
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Tropics
The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.
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Tullimonstrum
Tullimonstrum, colloquially known as the Tully Monster, is an extinct genus of soft-bodied bilaterian that lived in shallow tropical coastal waters of muddy estuaries during the Pennsylvanian geological period, about 300 million years ago.
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Type locality (geology)
Type locality, also called type area, type site, or type section, is the locality where a particular rock type, stratigraphic unit or mineral species is first identified.
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Vermilion River (Illinois River)
The Vermilion River is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Will County, Illinois
Will County is a county in the northeastern part of the state of Illinois.
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Worm
Worms are many different distantly related animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body and no limbs.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazon_Creek_fossil_beds
