List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Historical and Geological Papers
Mazon Creek Fauna and Flora: a Hundred Years of Investigation
Pennsylvanian Sedimentation in Northern Illinois: Examination of Delta Models
Lithoiogy and Fossil Distribution, Francis Creek Shale in Northeastern Illinois
The Occurrence and Origin of Siderite Concretions in the Francis Creek Shale (Pennsylvanian) of Northeastern Illinois
Paleobotanical Papers
Evidence of Soft-Sediment Cementation Enclosing Mazon Plant Fossils
High Diversity and Stratigraphie Age of the Mazon Creek Flora
The Mazon Creek Flora: Review of Research and Bibliography
Invertebrate Paleontology Papers
The Mazon Creek Biotas in the Context of a Carboniferous Faunal Continuum
Soft-Bodied Coelenterates in the Pennsylvanian of Illinois
A Reappraisal of Tullimonstrum gregarium
Gastropoda of the Essex Fauna, Francis Creek Shale (Middle Pennsylvanian), Northeastern Illinois
Polyplacophoran Molluscs of the Essex Fauna (Middle Pennsylvanian, Illinois)
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesean) Cephalopoda of the Mazon Creek Fauna, Northeastern Illinois
The Centipedes (Chilopoda) of the Mazon Creek
Evidence for Subaerial Activity of Euproops danae (Merostomata, Xiphosurida)
Vertebrate Paleontology Papers
New Chondrichthyes from the Mazon Creek Fauna (Pennsylvanian) of Illinois
Fishes of the Mazon Creek Fauna
Amphibamus grandiceps as a Juvenile Dissorophid: Evidence and Implications
Author Index
Subject Index