Daily Archives: February 24, 2017

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A scaphitid ammonite (Late Cretaceous of Mississippi)

The beauty above is Discoscaphites iris (Conrad, 1858) from the Owl Creek Formation of Ripley, Mississippi. Megan Innis and I collected it during our expedition to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the southern United States last summer. It is a significant … Continue reading

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