Blackberry Hill
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Blackberry Hill is a Konservat-Lagerstätte of Cambrian age located within the Elk Mound Group in Marathon County, Wisconsin. It is found in a series of quarries and outcrops that are notable for their
Tidal flat at Blackberry Hill, showing its animals and their traces.
Ripple marks are exceptionally distinct on the surfaces of many layers at Blackberry Hill.
Sand stromatolites, such as these encrusting a ripple marked surface, are common sedimentary structures associated with microbial activity.
The euthycarcinoid, Mosineia macnaughtoni---the presumed maker of some of the Protichnites at Blackberry Hill.
Scyphozoa
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The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria, referred to as the true jellyfish.
Blackberry Hill
…animals that are only lightly biomineralized. Additionally, Blackberry Hill is the first occurrence recognized to include Cambrian mass strandings of scyphozoans (jellyfish). The strata at Blackberry Hill are known to belong to the Elk Mound Group; however, the lack of good stratigraphic markers (i.e., index…
Cauliflour Jellyfish, Cephea cephea at Marsa Shouna, Red Sea, Egypt SCUBA
The developmental stages of scyphozoan jellyfish's life cycle: 1–3 Larva searches for site 4–8 Polyp grows 9–11 Polyp strobilates 12–14 Medusa grows
Fossilized stranded scyphozoans on a Cambrian tidal flat at Blackberry Hill, Wisconsin.