Mazon Creek Fossils
On Wednesday, August 1st 2018, collector extraordinaire Gene Hartstein gave a great talk on the Illinois "Mazon Creek Fossils" at the Natural History Society of Maryland. It's a wonderful site where soft body parts have been preserved due to rapid burial in marine sediments.
Lagerstätte: a fossil site exhibiting extraordinary preservation and often faunal or floral diversity.
The word translates from the German as Lager and Stätte; literally meaning "place of storage."
The word translates from the German as Lager and Stätte; literally meaning "place of storage."