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Tag Archives: fossils
Wooster’s Fossil (Maybe) of the Week: Kinneyia ripples
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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Tagged Fossil of the Week, fossils, New York, pseudofossil, Silurian
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: an upside-down nautiloid from the Devonian of Wisconsin
This lump of a fossil in Wooster’s teaching collection requires some explanation. It is not particularly well preserved, but it is our only representative of an interesting group of nautiloid cephalopods. The label that came with it says it is … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A rugose coral and its encrusters from the Middle Devonian of New York
This week’s fossils were found on a most excellent field trip to the Niagara region of New York in August. One of our outcrops was a small patch of gravel in Bethany Center where the Centerfield Limestone Member of the … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A spherical bryozoan from the Upper Ordovician of northeastern Estonia
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
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: “Lapis Judaicus” from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel
Paul Taylor (Natural History Museum, London) is, along with his other talents, an expert on the folklore of fossils. His accounts of how fossils have been used and imagined in the past are fascinating, especially to paleontologists who work with … Continue reading
Team Yorkshire gets all geochemical
BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA–When we last saw Mae Kemsley (’16) and Meredith Mann (’16) in this blog, they were celebrating the end of their Senior Independent Study summer fieldwork on the coast of North Yorkshire, England. This weekend the three of … Continue reading
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Tagged Cretaceous, fossils, geochemistry, Jurassic, Pennsylvania, Yorkshire
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: calcareous sponges from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel
This post is in honor of Yael Leshno, a graduate student at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem who is beginning her dissertation on the Middle Jurassic marine fossils of Israel. I’m proud to be on her committee. She will have … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A starry bryozoan from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio
At this time of the year I pick out one interesting specimen from the fossils my Invertebrate Paleontology class collected on their first field trip into the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio. They did so well this week that I … Continue reading
Wooster Paleontologists return to Caesar Creek Lake
Ohio is a wonderful place for paleontologists. One of the reasons is the thick, productive set of Upper Ordovician rocks that are exposed in the southwest of the state in and around Cincinnati. It is an easy drive south from … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A mystery fossil for my Invertebrate Paleontology students
At the beginning of my Invertebrate Paleontology course I give each student a fossil to identify by whatever means necessary. I challenge them to take it down to the species level, and tell me its age and likely place of … Continue reading