Tag Archives: Israel

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Sea urchin bites from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Israel

Mark Wilson February 10, 2013 1:16 am

What you see above is a bit of oyster shell with some curious small gouges in it. The oyster is Ilymatogyra (Afrogyra) africana (Lamarck, 1801) from the En Yorqe’am Formation (Cenomanian) exposed in Hamakhtesh Hagadol, southern Israel. The deep scratches … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Episkeletozoans from the Middle Jurassic of Israel

Mark Wilson December 30, 2012 1:55 am

Last week I had a delightful research afternoon with my former student Lisa Park Boush, now a professor in the Department of Geology and Environmental Science at The University of Akron, and currently Program Director, National Science Foundation, Sedimentary Geology … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Shark teeth! (Upper Cretaceous of Israel)

Mark Wilson December 2, 2012 1:37 am

This week’s set of exquisite fossils is presented in honor of Andrew Retzler (’11) who has just had his Senior Independent Study thesis at Wooster published in the journal Cretaceous Research: “Chondrichthyans from the Menuha Formation (Late Cretaceous: Santonian–Early Campanian) … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A new crinoid species from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson November 11, 2012 1:29 am

About a year ago I showed my good friend Bill Ausich (The Ohio State University) hundreds of crinoid pieces from the Matmor Formation (Jurassic, Callovian) exposed in Hamakhtesh Hagadol, southern Israel. We knew the crinoid represented by all these pieces … Continue reading →

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Presenting a Jurassic echinoid story on the last day of GSA 2012

Mark Wilson November 7, 2012 9:42 pm

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA–The last day of a scientific meeting is always less frantic. About half the attendees have left for home, the exhibitors start to give away merchandise so they don’t have to ship it home, and the speakers are … Continue reading →

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The second group of Wooster GSA 2012 posters

Mark Wilson November 5, 2012 6:13 pm

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA–Matt Peppers (’13), a member of the intrepid Team Utah, presented his poster today at the 2012 Geological Society of America annual meeting. Matt is working on the dynamics of the volcanic flows in the Black Rock Desert. … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Sea urchin bits (Middle Jurassic of southern Israel)

Mark Wilson September 2, 2012 1:48 am

Our fossils this week come from our growing collection of material found in the Matmor Formation (Callovian-Oxfordian) of Makhtesh Gadol, southern Israel. In November I will be giving a talk at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America … Continue reading →

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Patchiness and ecological structure in a Middle Jurassic equatorial crinoid-brachiopod community (Matmor Formation, Callovian, southern Israel) — An abstract submitted to the Geological Society of America for the 2012 annual meeting

Mark Wilson August 6, 2012 1:42 am

Editor’s note: The Wooster Geologists in Israel this spring wrote abstracts for the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, this November. The following is from student guest blogger Melissa Torma in the format required for GSA … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: ribbed brachiopods (Middle Jurassic of Israel)

Mark Wilson July 15, 2012 1:13 am

These delightful brachiopods are from the Matmor Formation (Jurassic, Callovian) of the Negev in southern Israel. They are part of a long-term Wooster project describing and interpreting a diverse paleocommunity. The latest trip to study these fossils was this past … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A calcareous sponge with a crinoid holdfast (Matmor Formation, Middle Jurassic, Israel)

Mark Wilson April 8, 2012 1:58 am

The Class Calcarea of the Phylum Porifera is a group of sponges characterized by spicular skeletons made of calcium carbonate (calcite in this case). The spicules (small elements of the skeleton) are often fused together, causing the sponges to look … Continue reading →

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