Specimen theft

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The following is posted at the request of Dr. Merrill Foster, Bradley
University.   He asks that paleontologists be on the lookout for two
specimens of Mazon Creek fish stolen from a display case at Bradley in
April, 1989. 
One is a paleoniscoid fish from Astoria, IL.  On the back of the concretion
is printed Astoria, a date in the 1970's and B.U. 116.  It has a distinctive
blab of pyrite across its midsection.
The other concretion is specimen of the lamprey Mayomyzon pieckoensis.  The
specimen was illustrated in the Jul/August 1989 issue of Rocks and Minerals.
The back of the specimen probably has printed Pit 11 and a date in the 1970's.
More information is available from Merrill at 309-676-7611. 
-Roy
Roy E. Plotnick
Geological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
845 W. Taylor St.
Chicago, IL 60607
plotnick@uic.edu
phone: 312-996-2111     fax: 312-413-2279


"The scientific celebrities, forgetting their molluscs and glacial
 periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters
 and ices with characteristic energy.." -Little Women, Louisa 
 May Alcott