Daily Archives: September 23, 2012

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: a deformed brachiopod (Upper Ordovician of Indiana)

Kevin Silver (’13), a sharp-eyed paleontology student, found this odd brachiopod on our field trip earlier this month in southeastern Indiana. It comes from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) Whitewater Formation. Kevin correctly identified it as Vinlandostrophia acutilirata (Conrad, 1842), an … Continue reading

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