Comments on: Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A mysterious sponge (Late Ordovician of Ohio) http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2012/02/05/woosters-fossil-of-the-week-a-mysterious-sponge-late-ordovician-of-ohio/ A World to Explore Mon, 13 May 2013 21:14:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Wooster Geologists » Blog Archive » Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A glass sponge from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2012/02/05/woosters-fossil-of-the-week-a-mysterious-sponge-late-ordovician-of-ohio/comment-page-1/#comment-17036 Wooster Geologists » Blog Archive » Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A glass sponge from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:48:09 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=5320#comment-17036 [...] articles, it is clear that the Wooster sponge is Pattersonia ulrichi Rauff, 1894. It has doubled our collection of Ordovician sponges. Thanks, [...]

]]> By: Mark Wilson http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2012/02/05/woosters-fossil-of-the-week-a-mysterious-sponge-late-ordovician-of-ohio/comment-page-1/#comment-8970 Mark Wilson Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:16:08 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=5320#comment-8970 Hello Dave! Our fossils are indeed very similar. Yours is a bit more disordered, though — maybe through some vagaries of preservation. I’m still puzzled about mine, and now yours! I think we’re on the right track with “sponge”. They may be hexactinellids or some types of chaetetids. Either way, it is much fun thinking about them! Thanks for your comment!

]]> By: Dave http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2012/02/05/woosters-fossil-of-the-week-a-mysterious-sponge-late-ordovician-of-ohio/comment-page-1/#comment-8968 Dave Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:31:14 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=5320#comment-8968 Interesting article! I’ve found similar looking “stringy” looking fibers in a upper Silurian/lower Devonian rock formation called the Keyser here in PA. I posted about it on my blog at: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/2011/12/possible-hexactinellid-sponge-from.html I’d be interested to learn if you have found any confirmation to what you have there. -Dave

]]> By: Mark Wilson http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2012/02/05/woosters-fossil-of-the-week-a-mysterious-sponge-late-ordovician-of-ohio/comment-page-1/#comment-7131 Mark Wilson Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:09:55 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=5320#comment-7131 Good idea, that it could be a chaetetid. I shall look further into this. Thanks!

]]> By: Solius http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2012/02/05/woosters-fossil-of-the-week-a-mysterious-sponge-late-ordovician-of-ohio/comment-page-1/#comment-7130 Solius Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:32:27 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=5320#comment-7130 They are similar to degraded thanatocoenosic chaetids that I have seen in the Millersburg Mb of the Lexington???

The “go to” Ord sponge guy is “Joe with a camera”. His blog:

http://fossilology.blogspot.com/

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