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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A molded brachiopod from the Lower Carboniferous of Ohio
We haven’t had a local fossil featured on this blog for awhile. Above is an external mold of the spiriferinid brachiopod Syringothyris typa Winchell, 1863, from the Logan Formation (Lower Carboniferous, Osagean, about 345 million years old) of southeastern Wooster, … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Sponge and bivalve borings from the Miocene of Spain
This week we have a rather unimposing limestone cobble, at least from the outside. It was collected way back in 1989 by my student Genga Thavi (“Devi”) Nadaraju (’90) as part of a Keck Geology Consortium field project in southeastern … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Pleistocene octocoral holdfast from Sicily
My Italian colleague Agostina Vertino collected this beautiful specimen from the Pleistocene of Sicily and brought it to Wooster when she visited five years ago. It is the attaching base (holdfast) of the octocoral Keratoisis peloritana (Sequenza 1864). Octocorals (Subclass … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A stromatoporoid from the Silurian of Estonia
Stromatoporoids are extinct sponges that formed thick, laminated skeletons of calcite. They can be very common in Silurian and Devonian carbonate units, sometimes forming extensive reefs. The stromatoporoid above is Densastroma pexisum (Yavorsky, 1929) collected from the Mustjala Member of … Continue reading
Three Days on Ice
Dr. Lowell and a crew from the University of Cincinnati spent thee days with us on the ice at Browns Lake Bog. The objectives were to take a series of long cores from the ice platform at the bog and, … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A predatory gastropod from the Pliocene of Cyprus
This week we have another fossil from the Nicosia Formation (Pliocene) of the Mesaoria Plain in central Cyprus. It is again from a Keck Geology Consortium project in 1996 with Steve Dornbos (’97). This time, though, instead of our Coral … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Another vermetid gastropod from the Pliocene of Cyprus
Why another one of those strange twisty gastropods from the Pliocene of Cyprus for our Fossil of the Week? Because this one fooled me for years. Above is a pair of images of a specimen of the vermetid gastropod Petaloconchus … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A worm-like gastropod from the Pliocene of Cyprus
This week we continue with fossils from the Nicosia Formation (Pliocene) of the Mesaoria Plain in central Cyprus. These fossils are from a Keck Geology Consortium project in 1996 with Steve Dornbos (’97). Above we have one of the most distinctive … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An encrusted scallop from the Pliocene of Cyprus
One of the very best paleontological sites I had the pleasure of collecting was on the hot Mesaoria Plain near the center of the island of Cyprus. It was the summer of 1996 and Steve Dornbos (’97) and I were … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Cretaceous oyster with borings and bryozoans from Mississippi
As winter closes in on Ohio, I start dreaming about past field trips in warm places. This week’s fossil takes me back to fieldwork in Alabama and Mississippi during May of 2010. Paul Taylor (The Natural History Museum, London) and … Continue reading