This belongs in the museum of On the Ground Outside. A really special person [Charles Shabica] gave these fossils to me, and he is the man who edited the two books called the fossil fauna and the fossil flora of Mazon Creek which is one of few sites in the world that have carboniferous era fossils perfectly preserved.

So when I visited [the writer and fossil collector Charles Shabica], he reached into a box of fossils and pulled [these] out and gave them to me.

These belong in the Museum of On the Ground Outside

Exhibited by Kathleen Soler

Transcript edited by Susan Golland