Tag Archives: Jurassic

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A scleractinian coral and its tube-dwelling symbionts (Middle Jurassic of Israel)

Mark Wilson April 20, 2014 1:21 am

I have a weakness for the beautiful scleractinian corals of the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian-Oxfordian) of southern Israel. This particular specimen is Microsolena aff. M. sadeki from locality C/W-367 in Hamakhtesh Hagadol, southern Israel. (The “aff.” in the name … Continue reading →

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Return to the Jurassic Paradise of Makhtesh Gadol

Mark Wilson April 15, 2014 11:27 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–This week I’m back in Makhtesh Gadol, that great bowl of Jurassic delights. This is the most extensive exposure of marine Jurassic rocks in southern Israel, and it is highly fossiliferous. This is just a brief report. I’ll … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists at the North American Paleontological Convention in Florida

Mark Wilson February 16, 2014 5:49 pm

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA–Steph Bosch (’14), Lizzie Reinthal (’14) and I flew out of icy Ohio this weekend to attend the 10th North American Paleontological Convention in warm, sunny northern Florida. The students jointly presented the beautiful poster above on their Independent … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A long scleractinian coral from the Middle Jurassic of Israel

Mark Wilson November 17, 2013 1:35 am

Just one image for this week’s fossil, but we make up for the numbers in image length! The above fossil with the alternating “saw teeth” is the scleractinian coral Enallhelia d’Orbigny, 1849. It is a rare component of the diverse … Continue reading →

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Wooster paleontologists present at the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver

Mark Wilson October 28, 2013 5:36 pm

DENVER, COLORADO–Yesterday Oscar Mmari (’14) gave the first presentation from Wooster’s Team Israel 2013 at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver. Today our two paleontologists on the team discussed their posters. Above is Lizzie Reinthal … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A nautiloid from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson September 8, 2013 1:53 am

This is the first nautiloid specimen I’ve seen in the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) after ten years of collecting in it. Our colleague Yoav Avni (Geological Survey of Israel) picked it up during this summer’s fieldwork. It is a … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An almost planispiral gastropod from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson August 11, 2013 1:56 am

  Add this to the list of fossils that have confused me. This summer, during a Wooster expedition, Lizzie Reinthal and Steph Bosch collected the above specimen from the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of southern Israel. I simply assumed … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An irregular echinoid from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson August 4, 2013 1:38 am

From the view above, this fossil from the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of southern Israel looks like your standard echinoid (a group that contains sea urchins and sand dollars), but turn it on its side (see below) and you … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An infected crinoid from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson July 28, 2013 1:00 am

This weathered beauty is a stem fragment of the articulate crinoid Apiocrinites negevensis from the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of the Negev, southern Israel. The regular divisions you see making up the stem are the columnals, which look a … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Dinosaur footprints of unknown provenance

Mark Wilson July 14, 2013 1:00 am

These are the only fossils in the Wooster collection I feel some shame about. They are tridactyl theropod dinosaur footprints. They are not spectacular, but they do the job for classes and visits by schoolchildren. I regret that we have … Continue reading →

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