Tag Archives: Jurassic

Goodbye, Makhtesh Gadol (for now)

Mark Wilson July 7, 2013 8:59 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–Today Team Israel 2013 had its last visit to Makhtesh Gadol, marking the end of Lizzie Reinthal’s and Steph Bosch’s fieldwork. We collected our last specimens from the Matmor Formation, which is exposed only in the center of … Continue reading →

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Bryozoans finally make an appearance in the Jurassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson July 5, 2013 11:00 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–The concentrated effort of all four Wooster Geologists in Israel finally paid off in fossil bryozoans today. Steph Bosch (center) is studying the bryozoans of the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic) in Makhtesh Gadol for her Independent Study project. … Continue reading →

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Phosphate success while Jurassic bryozoans remain elusive

Mark Wilson July 4, 2013 11:09 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–Oscar Mmari celebrated on his second outcrop today the completion of his stratigraphic columns for his project on the phosphate-bearing portions of the Mishash Formation in the Negev of southern Israel. It is certainly the least pretty section … Continue reading →

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Fossil collecting under a desert sun

Mark Wilson July 2, 2013 10:52 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–Today the Wooster Geologists in Israel collected fossils from the Matmor Formation in Makhtesh Gadol. It was time to begin assembling data for Lizzie Reinthal’s and Steph Bosch’s Independent Study projects, and to follow up on some projects … Continue reading →

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Field reconnaissance in the northern Negev of Israel

Mark Wilson July 1, 2013 2:20 pm

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–This morning Team Israel 2013 met our friend Yoav Avni, a geologist with the Geological Survey of Israel (GSI), and we traveled north to our field localities. We did a survey of the sites so that we could … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A barnacle-bored belemnite from the Jurassic of Spain

Mark Wilson June 23, 2013 1:11 am

Two subjects of previous Fossil of the Week posts are combined together here: a belemnite (the elegant Hibolites hastatus) and barnacle borings (the ichnofossil Rogerella). This specimen is from the Jurassic of Moneva Teruel, Spain. Belemnites are extinct cephalopods, oddly … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A shrimp from the Upper Jurassic of Bavaria, Germany

Mark Wilson June 2, 2013 1:18 am

The beautiful fossil shrimp above is Aeger tipularis (Schlotheim, 1822), and it comes from one of the most famous rock units: the Solnhofen Plattenkalk (Tithonian, Upper Jurassic) of Germany. (The Solnhofen is well known for its extraordinary fossils, including the … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A grazed oyster from the Middle Jurassic of Gloucestershire, England

Mark Wilson March 24, 2013 1:46 am

This small oyster is not in itself unusual. In fact, it is one of the most common fossils in the Jurassic of western Europe: Praeexogyra acuminata (Sowerby, 1816). It may be better known by its older name: Ostrea acuminata. Local … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A brittle star from the Upper Jurassic of Germany

Mark Wilson March 10, 2013 1:38 am

Wooster geologists have again greatly benefited from the donation of a collection by an alumnus. George Chambers (’79), a successful professional photographer, sent us several boxes of minerals, rocks and fossils he had acquired in his lifelong passion for geology. … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Pseudofossil of the Week: Manganese dendrites from Germany

Mark Wilson January 20, 2013 1:33 am

We haven’t had a pseudofossil in this space for awhile. A pseudofossil is an object that is often mistaken for a fossil but is actually inorganic. The above may look like  fossil fern, but it is instead a set of … Continue reading →

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