Tag Archives: Estonia

First full day in Estonia for the intrepid paleontologists

Mark Wilson July 29, 2018 7:29 am

Tartu, Estonia– Bill Ausich and I arrived exhausted but safely in this old university city last evening. Fortunately we had this gorgeous Sunday to recover and adjust to the seven-hour time difference. We explored the neighborhood around our hotel (“V-Spa … Continue reading →

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Wooster and Ohio State paleontologists return to Estonia

Mark Wilson July 27, 2018 7:27 am

Bill Ausich (Ohio State University Academy Professor) and I begin a long journey today from Ohio to the delightful nation of Estonia. (I’ve posted a map above in case you’ve forgotten the location of this Baltic country.) We were last … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Revisiting a pair of hyoliths from the Middle Ordovician of Estonia

Mark Wilson January 20, 2017 12:01 am

We met these modest internal molds of the mysterious hyoliths about five years ago. With a dramatic new development in hyolith studies, they are worth seeing again. These fossils are internal molds (the sediment that filled the shell) of of … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: New Early Silurian crinoids from Estonia

Mark Wilson September 16, 2016 12:01 am

It has been a good year for new fossil taxa on this blog. I’m pleased to present a fauna of Early Silurian crinoids from the Hilliste Formation (Rhuddanian) exposed on Hiiumaa Island, western Estonia. They are described in a paper … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Symbiotic interactions in the Silurian of Baltica

Mark Wilson June 17, 2016 12:01 am

This week’s fossils are from work Olev Vinn (University of Tartu, Estonia) and I did last summer that is soon to appear in the journal Lethaia. (An early electronic version of the manuscript has been available since November.) After numerous … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A spherical bryozoan from the Upper Ordovician of northeastern Estonia

Mark Wilson October 2, 2015 12:01 am

Way back in July 2007 we had our first Team Estonia doing geological field research. Andrew Milligan (’08) and I, with our friend Dr. Olev Vinn of the University of Tartu, explored the Upper Ordovician of the northeastern part of … Continue reading →

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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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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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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A trace fossil from the Ordovician of Estonia

Mark Wilson November 21, 2014 12:35 am

The fossils above have been in a previous post as examples of hyolith internal molds from the Middle Ordovician of northern Estonia. I collected them on my first visit to the Baltic countries in 2006. This week I want to … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Embedded cornulitids from the Lower Silurian of Estonia

Mark Wilson May 12, 2013 1:57 am

At first specimen this looks like a series of holes drilled into a small, smooth substrate (like Trypanites), but then you notice that the substrate has grown up around the holes, and on the far left you can make out … Continue reading →

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