Monthly Archives: July 2012

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: fusulinids (Upper Carboniferous of Kansas)

Mark Wilson July 8, 2012 12:24 am

They look like little footballs, at least the American variety of football. Fusulinids (the name indicating the fusiform shape) are about the size and shape of wheat grains. They were marine protists (single-celled eucaryotes) that lived from the late Early … Continue reading →

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Crinoid hunting in ancient Baltica

Mark Wilson July 7, 2012 2:12 pm

KURESSAARE, ESTONIA–Bill Ausich (Ohio State University) and I have a grant from the National Geographic Society to study the “origination and evolution of Middle Paleozoic crinoids on the Baltica paleocontinent“. Bill is the prime mover behind this project as one … Continue reading →

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Silurian limestone under our feet

Mark Wilson July 6, 2012 2:27 pm

KURESSAARE, ESTONIA–The 2012 Wooster Estonia expedition had its first official time in the field this afternoon. Jonah, Richa and I traveled the short distance from Kuressaare to the historical Sõrve peninsula in the extreme southwest of Saaremaa. There we explored … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists return to Estonia

Mark Wilson July 6, 2012 6:49 am

KURESSAARE, ESTONIA–It took longer than we expected, but three Wooster geologists and four colleagues from Ohio State University are finally on the island of Saaremaa and ready for our fieldwork in the Silurian limestones along the shores here and on … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Wiggly little foraminiferans from the Middle Jurassic of southern England

Mark Wilson July 1, 2012 1:49 am

These shell fragments are of the oyster Praeexogyra hebridica var. elongata, and I picked them up long ago from a remarkable unit made almost entirely of them. It is the Elongata Bed at the base of the Frome Clay (Middle … Continue reading →

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