Tag Archives: Fossil of the Week

Five-Year Anniversary Edition of Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tabulate coral from the Devonian of northwestern Ohio

Mark Wilson January 1, 2016 12:38 am

This post of Wooster’s Fossil of the Week marks five years of this feature. If you’re counting, that is 260 entries, with never a week missed. To celebrate, I’m returning to the very first fossil in the series, a beautiful … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Tiny atrypid brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio

Mark Wilson December 25, 2015 12:01 am

These exquisite little brachiopods are among the most abundant fossils in the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati area. My Invertebrate Paleontology students collected dozens of them from the Waynesville Formation on our field trip to Caesar Creek Lake last semester. … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tabulate coral from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio

Mark Wilson December 18, 2015 12:10 am

We have here another fossil collected by a Wooster student on the August 2015 College of Wooster Invertebrate Paleontology field trip to Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio. Eduardo Luna picked up this specimen of the tabulate coral Calapoecia huronensis (Billings, 1865) … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A common trilobite from the Upper Ordovician of Ohio

Mark Wilson December 11, 2015 12:28 am

This beautiful specimen was collected by Wooster student Eve Caudill on this year’s College of Wooster Invertebrate Paleontology field trip to Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio. It is the iconic trilobite Flexicalymene meeki (Foerste, 1910) from a soft, “buttery” shale in … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Zig-zag oysters from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson December 4, 2015 12:01 am

These pretty little oysters are from the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of Makhtesh Gadol in southern Israel. Because I regrettably missed going to Israel for fieldwork this summer, I thought I’d choose these exquisite fossils to be celebrated this … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A fragmentary rostroconch from the Middle Devonian of Ohio

Mark Wilson November 27, 2015 12:15 am

Not all of our featured fossils are particularly beautiful, or even entire, but they are interesting in some way. Above is the broken cross-section of a rostroconch mollusk known as Hippocardia Brown, 1843. It was found somewhere in Ohio by … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tall brachiopod from the Devonian of western Russia

Mark Wilson November 20, 2015 12:01 am

In the summer of 2009 I had a field adventure in Russia. It was an extraordinary time. I learned considerable amounts of Russian geology and paleontology, of course, and was immersed in the Russian geological culture. Along the way I … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A striated brachiopod from the Silurian of New York

Mark Wilson November 13, 2015 12:04 am

Sometimes it is a Fossil of the Week simply because it is new to me. The brachiopods above are abundant in a thin layer of shells within the Lewiston Member of the Rochester Shale (Silurian, Wenlockian) in western New York … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Reptile tracks from the Lower Permian of southern Nevada

Mark Wilson November 6, 2015 12:02 am

Always lead with your most interesting image. The fossil here is the thin orange slab of siltstone underneath my magnificent Komodo Dragon model. Here is the slab itself. On the far right and the far left you can see two … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil (Maybe) of the Week: Kinneyia ripples

Mark Wilson October 23, 2015 12:01 am

While hiking through the Niagara Gorge on a field trip in August, my friend Andrej Ernst of the University of Kiel found the above block of siltstone from the Grimsby Formation (Silurian) with unusual small-scale ripples in a patch. Carl … Continue reading →

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