Tag Archives: fossils

Another day in the shallow Jurassic seas of southwestern Utah

Mark Wilson April 18, 2018 4:18 am

St. George, Utah — Back to the Gunlock region for me to revisit old Carmel Formation research sites to check for access issues and new exposures. This trip has also given me a chance to update my images of the … Continue reading →

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Another geological scouting day in southwestern Utah

Mark Wilson April 17, 2018 4:17 am

Kanab, Utah — My day began with a visit to the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, where I met Andrew R.C. Milner, the Site Paleontologist and Curator. This museum is built over an extraordinary set of dinosaur … Continue reading →

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A Wooster Geologist returns to the Jurassic of southwestern Utah

Mark Wilson April 16, 2018 4:16 am

St. George, Utah — This week I’m exploring the wonderful Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation exposed in southwestern Utah. It is a rare bit of solo fieldwork I’m doing to prepare for a Wooster Independent Study expedition here with students and … Continue reading →

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A Wooster Paleontologist visits the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

Mark Wilson April 5, 2018 11:01 pm

Washington, DC — I have the privilege this semester of being on a research leave from teaching, so I thought I’d report on one of my activities. Without classroom responsibilities I can travel for research opportunities, especially now as the … Continue reading →

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A geological and archaeological hike in northeastern Ohio on the last day of winter

Mark Wilson March 19, 2018 9:14 pm

It was a beautiful latest-winter day in Wooster. Nick Wiesenberg had the great idea of taking an afternoon to hike through Pee Wee Hollow, a wooded area of ravines, streams and rocky exposures a few miles northwest of Wooster near … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Echinoid bite marks from the Upper Cretaceous of southwestern France

Mark Wilson November 30, 2017 12:01 am

Above is another beautiful image from Paul Taylor’s paleontological lab at the Natural History Museum, London. It is one of our fossil oysters (Pycnodonte vesicularis) from the French Type Campanian collected in the town of Archiac in southwestern France on … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Barnacle borings from the Cretaceous of southwestern France

Mark Wilson November 24, 2017 12:01 am

Small comma-shaped trace fossils this week in a Cretaceous (Upper Campanian) oyster (Pycnodonte vesicularis) from the Aubeterre Formation of southwestern France. (Locality C/W-747, Plage des Nonnes, to be exact.) These are borings produced by barnacles, which are sedentary crustaceans more … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Encrusting cyanobacteria from the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati region — now published

Mark Wilson November 17, 2017 12:01 am

[This week’s post is a repeat from last year, with some modifications. The paper Paul Taylor and I wrote on these microbial beauties has just appeared this week in the latest issue of the journal Palaios. A pdf is yours … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Middle Jurassic trace fossil from southwestern Utah

Mark Wilson November 10, 2017 12:01 am

Time for a trace fossil! This is one of my favorite ichnogenera (the trace fossil equivalent of a biological genus). It is Gyrochorte Heer, 1865, from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Carmel Formation of southwestern Utah (near Gunlock; locality C/W-142). It … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: The tiniest of brachiopods (Middle Jurassic of Utah)

Mark Wilson November 3, 2017 12:01 am

While preparing for this summer’s expedition to the Middle Jurassic of southwestern Utah, I found this specimen in our collection from the 1990s. You may be able to just make out the wedge-shaped outline of a mytilid-like bivalve with several … Continue reading →

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