Monthly Archives: January 2016

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A brachiopod with a heavy burden (Upper Ordovician of southeastern Indiana)

Mark Wilson January 29, 2016 12:01 am

Yes, the above image doesn’t look much like a brachiopod, but just wait. We see a trepostome bryozoan with extended knobs and a few borings. Flip it over, though … … and we see that the bryozoan almost entirely covers … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Gastropod opercula from the Pliocene of Cyprus

Mark Wilson January 22, 2016 12:01 am

This week’s brief entry (it is short because we’re in the first few days of a new semester at Wooster) is related to last week’s post. Above are two gastropod opercula from the Nicosia Formation (Pliocene) of Cyprus. They were … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A turbinid gastropod from the Pliocene of Cyprus

Mark Wilson January 15, 2016 12:01 am

We saw this broken gastropod from the Pliocene of Cyprus in this blog post about two and a half years ago. I recently rediscovered it while sorting specimens and decided to show this intriguing perspective through the broken part of … Continue reading →

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Update from Classifying the Unknown: the Lunar Edition

Mark Wilson January 10, 2016 12:01 am

[Guest Blogger: Annette Hilton (’17)] This past summer I had the privilege of working as an intern in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) — please see my previous blog post. Since … Continue reading →

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Science Highlights from VMSG 2016

mpollock January 8, 2016 5:46 pm

Dublin, Ireland – The technical program of VMSG 2016 concluded today and I am saturated with new ideas about igneous systems. Abstracts for all of the talks and posters can be found on the VMSG 2016 website.  There were so … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Atrypid brachiopods attached to a trepostome bryozoan from the Upper Ordovician of southern Indiana

Mark Wilson January 8, 2016 12:01 am

This is a follow-up post to our entry on Christmas Day two weeks ago. Above is a trepostome bryozoan (the long porous piece) with specimens of the atrypid brachiopod Zygospira modesta clustered around it. They are positioned with their ventral … Continue reading →

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Good things happen at VMSG

mpollock January 7, 2016 10:34 am

Dublin, Ireland – Congratulations to Mary Reinthal (’16) for a successful poster presentation at VMSG 2016! Mary did a fantastic job giving her ‘lightning talk,’ a two-minute round-robin-style presentation of her poster. The poster session was everything that it should … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists in Ireland

mpollock January 6, 2016 5:08 pm

Greetings from Dublin! Mary Reinthal (’16) and I are attending the annual conference of the Volcano and Magmatic Studies Group (#VMSG2016) at Trinity College. Volcanologists, petrologists, geochemists, and geophysicists have gathered to share their research on igneous topics ranging from … Continue reading →

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Five-Year Anniversary Edition of Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tabulate coral from the Devonian of northwestern Ohio

Mark Wilson January 1, 2016 12:38 am

This post of Wooster’s Fossil of the Week marks five years of this feature. If you’re counting, that is 260 entries, with never a week missed. To celebrate, I’m returning to the very first fossil in the series, a beautiful … Continue reading →

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