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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A trepostome bryozoan from the Upper Ordovician of northern Kentucky

mwilson December 15, 2013 1:26 am

First, what U.S. state does this delicious little bryozoan resemble? It’s so close I can even pick out Green Bay. This is Heterotrypa frondosa (d’Orbigny, 1850), a trepostome bryozoan from the Corryville Formation (Upper Ordovician) in Covington, Kentucky. I collected … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists Present at AGU 2013

mpollock December 12, 2013 7:02 pm

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today was a big day for Wooster Geologists Alex Hiatt (’14) and Mary Reinthal (’16). They presented their work on subglacial volcanic ridges, along with Ellie Was (’14, Dickinson College). You may remember these fantastic undergraduate … Continue reading →

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A Twist on our Final Exam: The GIS Poster Symposium

sjudge December 11, 2013 6:32 pm

WOOSTER, OH — GEOL 220 (Introduction to GIS) had their final exam this morning, but it was not a typical final exam atmosphere.  It was a very social event, with much mingling and chatter (in between bites of donut holes … Continue reading →

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Highlights from the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting

mpollock December 10, 2013 11:32 pm

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union is once again taking place the festive city of San Francisco. Mild weather and sunny skies have greeted the 22,000+ geoscientists who have traveled from across the globe … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Echinoid fragments from the Upper Carboniferous of southern Nevada

mwilson December 8, 2013 1:18 am

  This rock has been in my Invertebrate Paleontology course teaching collection since I arrived in Wooster. I collected it way back when I was doing my fieldwork for my dissertation on the biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Bird Spring … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An encrusted cobble from the Upper Ordovician of Kentucky

mwilson December 1, 2013 1:21 am

In 1984 I pulled the above specimen from a muddy ditch during a pouring rain near the confluence of Gunpowder Creek and the Ohio River in Boone County, northern Kentucky. It changed my life. This limestone cobble eroded out of … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A crinoid calyx from the Lower Carboniferous of Iowa

mwilson November 24, 2013 1:20 am

In honor of Echinoderm Week for my Invertebrate Paleontology course, we have a beautiful crinoid calyx (or crown, or just “head”) on a slab from the Burlington Limestone (Lower Carboniferous, Osagean) found near Burlington, Iowa. I inherited this fossil when … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A long scleractinian coral from the Middle Jurassic of Israel

mwilson November 17, 2013 1:35 am

Just one image for this week’s fossil, but we make up for the numbers in image length! The above fossil with the alternating “saw teeth” is the scleractinian coral Enallhelia d’Orbigny, 1849. It is a rare component of the diverse … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A colonial scleractinian coral from the Pliocene of Cyprus

mwilson November 10, 2013 1:58 am

This week’s fossil is another from the collection made in 1996 on a Keck Geology Consortium expedition to Cyprus with Steve Dornbos as a Wooster student. Steve and I found a spectacular undescribed coral reef in the Nicosia Formation (Pliocene) … Continue reading →

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Citizen scientist to the rescue (in more ways than one)

mwilson November 9, 2013 6:16 pm

NEW LONDON, OHIO–The Wooster paleontologists spent a pleasant afternoon with our favorite amateur fossil collector Brian Bade. Brian has been mentioned in this blog previously for the many important fossils he has found and donated. He is a spectacular citizen … Continue reading →

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