Tag Archives: Australia

The Phylum Bryozoa is now known from the Cambrian. An updated set of posts.

Mark Wilson June 4, 2026 9:35 am

The vexing question of the earliest bryozoans has now been definitively answered. The Phylum Bryozoa appears first in early Cambrian rocks in China (Song et al., 2026). Until recently they were one of the few major animal phyla not represented … Continue reading →

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Climate Monday: Repeat Photography

acrawford April 15, 2018 8:08 pm

The semester is winding down, so we only have a few more of these climate visualization posts to go. Today, I want to highlight repeat photography. Taking a picture of the same place several or many years apart can be … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A crab from the Pleistocene of northern Australia

Mark Wilson November 18, 2012 1:32 am

Isn’t this amazing preservation? This fossil crab, which we received as a donation a few years ago, is Macrophthalmus latreillei (Desmarest, 1822) from the Pleistocene of northern Australia. It is virtually identical to its modern counterpart of the same species, … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A three-branched graptolite (Lower Ordovician of southeastern Australia)

Mark Wilson January 9, 2011 2:22 am

This week I’m correcting a mistake I’ve been making in my paleontology courses for nearly thirty years. Our subject is a graptolite from the teaching collections — a specimen that has been at least cursorily examined by all of my … Continue reading →

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