Publication - First records of the sharks Heslerodus divergens and Ossianodus from the LaSalle Limestone Member of northern Illinois!

[gieserguy]

Hey guys! It’s been a long time since I’ve been active on the Forum, but I have an exciting update - I just published my first paleontology paper on Christmas Eve! 
 

It’s a short paper documenting two shark species that are previously unreported from the LaSalle Limestone of northern Illinois (you guys may know it as the Oglesby roadcut!), Heslerodus divergens and Ossianodus sp. I’ve added the pdf of the paper here and here’s a link to it as well. 
 

Thanks to everyone here that helped give info about the site, especially @deutscheben! 

Gieser_et_al_2023_Kentiana_5.pdf

 

***Calling all LaSalle Limestone/Oglesby roadcut fossil hunters!***

 

If you have collected any shark or fish material from the Oglesby roadcut and would be willing to contribute to science and the growing knowledge of the (severely understudied) Paleozoic vertebrate diversity of Illinois, please contact me! Hobbyist fossil collectors have made some of the best finds in paleontology, and I would love to see what you all have collected from the site. This area’s fish diversity is much higher than is currently known to science and I would like to work on documenting it. Thanks!

 

Email - rgieser2_AT_illinois.edu

or you can just contact me on this site as well

 

 

Edited December 26, 2023 by gieserguy

[sixgill pete]

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing this with all of us. 

[digit]

2 hours ago, gieserguy said:

If you have collected any shark or fish material from the Oglesby roadcut and would be willing to contribute to science and the growing knowledge of the (severely understudied) Paleozoic vertebrate diversity of Illinois, please contact me! Hobbyist fossil collectors have made some of the best finds in paleontology, and I would love to see what you all have collected from the site. This area’s fish diversity is much higher than is currently known to science and I would like to work on documenting it. Thanks!

Here's a great opportunity for those who might have some interesting fossils from this locality to leverage those specimens into furthering science. It would be spectacular for someone with additional materials to spot this posting and contribute to more cooperation between the amateur collectors and the professional paleontologists.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[NickG]

Nice paper! We are comparing it with our site. 

[Baking Geologist]

Thank you! It’s good to read papers in “my language” again.  

[trilobites_are_awesome]

Good job!

[rocket]

well done!

 

[aek]

Congrats!

[deutscheben]

That's fantastic news, congrats! I am finally getting around to reading it today. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

[Praefectus]

Congratulations on the publication!

[PFOOLEY]

Congratulations @gieserguy!