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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A new crinoid genus from the Silurian of Estonia

Mark Wilson March 13, 2015 1:50 am

It is my pleasure to introduce a new Silurian crinoid genus and species: Velocrinus coniculus Ausich, Wilson & Vinn, 2015. The image above is a CD-interray lateral view of the calyx (or head), with the small anal plate in the … Continue reading →

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For Our Wooster Family

mpollock March 13, 2015 12:18 am

Here’s a photo of a peaceful sunrise at the Desert Studies Center to let our WOODS friends know that our thoughts are with them.  

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Days Three and Four – Mojave 2015

gwiles March 11, 2015 11:14 pm

Day three was spent examining the sedimentology, structure and paleontology, and a bit of the wildlife biology at Owl Canyon. We even stopped at the Payless Shoestore in nearby Barstow (Dr. Wilson’s hometown). The wildlife was the desert tortoise. The … Continue reading →

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The First Two Days in the Mojave

gwiles March 10, 2015 6:17 am

  Nine students and five faculty and staff are part of Desert Geology 2015, a week-long fieldtrip to the Mojave Desert. Here the nine students, joined by Cam Matesich (Wooster ’14) gathered at an overlook of Death Valley (Dante’s View). Cam … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A lucinid bivalve from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson March 6, 2015 12:54 am

Above is a specimen of the lucinid bivalve Fimbria sp. from the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic) of Makhtesh Gadol in southern Israel. I collected it in 2007 while working with Meredith Sharpe (Wooster ’08) as she pursued the fieldwork for … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Star-shaped crinoid columnals from the Middle Jurassic of southern Utah

Mark Wilson February 27, 2015 12:53 am

Just a quick Fossil of the Week post. Above we see isolated columnals (stem units) of the crinoid Isocrinus nicoleti (Desor, 1845) found in the Co-Op Creek Member of the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic), Kane County, southern Utah. Greg Wiles … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A molded brachiopod from the Lower Carboniferous of Ohio

Mark Wilson February 20, 2015 1:10 am

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

Mark Wilson February 13, 2015 1:11 am

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 →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Pleistocene octocoral holdfast from Sicily

Mark Wilson February 6, 2015 1:17 am

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

Mark Wilson January 30, 2015 1:30 am

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 →

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