Tag Archives: Carboniferous

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Conulariid (Lower Carboniferous of Indiana)

Mark Wilson April 14, 2017 12:01 am

I have some affection for these odd fossils, the conulariids. When I was a student in the Invertebrate Paleontology course taught Dr. Richard Osgood, Jr., I did my research paper on them. I had recently found a specimen in the … Continue reading →

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

Mark Wilson October 14, 2016 12:01 am

Sometimes I choose a Fossil of the Week from our Invertebrate Paleontology teaching collection because students have responded to it in some way. This week’s fossil brachiopod has confused my students a bit because it is an internal mold (unusual … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Tiny athyridide brachiopods from the Lower Carboniferous of the West Midlands of England

Mark Wilson September 9, 2016 12:01 am

These little brachiopods were also in the recent gift package from Clive Champion, our English brachiopod expert and friend. They tested my photographic skills, being too large for our photomicroscope and at the limit of resolution for my camera with … Continue reading →

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A Wooster Geologist Visits Spangler Park

Mark Wilson May 9, 2016 1:01 pm

Editor’s note: The following entry was written by Chloe Wallace (’17), a student in this year’s Sedimentology & Stratigraphy course. One of our writing assignments was to write a blog post about our recent field trip to Spangler Park (also … Continue reading →

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Sedimentology & Stratigraphy class in Wooster Memorial Park. Watch this space!

Mark Wilson April 23, 2016 2:44 pm

This morning Wooster’s Sedimentology & Stratigraphy class visited Wooster Memorial (“Spangler”) Park for some field experience. A few of the students are shown above exploring a magnificent glacial deposit. I never did get a photo with all 21 students in … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A crinoid stem internal mold from the Lower Carboniferous of Ohio

Mark Wilson April 8, 2016 12:13 am

The Biology Department at The College of Wooster is in the midst of a massive move in advance of the construction of the new Ruth Williams Hall of Life Science. The staff has been combing through old specimen collections, giving … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A blastoid from the Lower Carboniferous of Illinois

Mark Wilson August 21, 2015 12:29 am

It is sometimes hard to believe that exquisite fossils such as the above are sometimes very common. The above is a theca of the blastoid Pentremites godoni (DeFrance, 1819) found in the Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) of Illinois. (Thanks to expert … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A conulariid revisited (Lower Carboniferous of Indiana)

Mark Wilson July 31, 2015 12:04 am

This summer I’ve been updating some of the photos I placed in the Wikipedia system (check them out here, if you like; free to use for any purpose). I was especially anxious to replace a low-resolution image I had made … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A chaetetid demosponge from the Upper Carboniferous of southern Nevada

Mark Wilson June 5, 2015 12:23 am

I collected this lump of a specimen during my dissertation research in the Bird Spring Formation (Carboniferous-Permian) of southern Nevada. It was found in a richly-fossiliferous Upper Carboniferous (Moscovian) portion near Mountain Springs Pass, which is about 40 km southwest … 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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