Monthly Archives: October 2011

Wooster Geologists in Minneapolis! (Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America)

Mark Wilson October 9, 2011 2:27 pm

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA–Wooster Geologists are again attending the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in force. It is strangely very warm and sunny here in mid-October Minneapolis. The convention center looks like a late summer college campus with people … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: an aberrant brachiopod (Permian of Texas)

Mark Wilson October 9, 2011 1:43 am

Funny word to apply to a fossil: aberrant, meaning “deviating from the normal”. It’s an old-fashioned word rarely used these days, primarily because we have a hard time defining “normal”. It was the word used when I was introduced to … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: an oreodont (probably from the Oligocene of Nebraska)

Mark Wilson October 2, 2011 1:36 am

Oreodonts are extraordinarily common fossils in the Oligocene of North America. Just about every teaching fossil collection contains at least a couple oreodont skulls, most obtained during late Nineteenth-Century field trips to the Great Plains. Our specimen above is of … Continue reading →

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