Tag Archives: Ohio

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A crinoid stem internal mold from the Lower Carboniferous of Ohio

Mark Wilson April 8, 2016 12:13 am

The Biology Department at The College of Wooster is in the midst of a massive move in advance of the construction of the new Ruth Williams Hall of Life Science. The staff has been combing through old specimen collections, giving … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Pseudofossils of the Week: Shatter cones from southern Ohio

Mark Wilson March 4, 2016 12:01 am

This brief post is a correction of a previous entry. Last year I showed what I thought were shatter cones collected many years ago in Adams County, Ohio, by the late Professor Frank L. Koucky of The College of Wooster. … Continue reading →

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Five-Year Anniversary Edition of Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tabulate coral from the Devonian of northwestern Ohio

Mark Wilson January 1, 2016 12:38 am

This post of Wooster’s Fossil of the Week marks five years of this feature. If you’re counting, that is 260 entries, with never a week missed. To celebrate, I’m returning to the very first fossil in the series, a beautiful … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Tiny atrypid brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio

Mark Wilson December 25, 2015 12:01 am

These exquisite little brachiopods are among the most abundant fossils in the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati area. My Invertebrate Paleontology students collected dozens of them from the Waynesville Formation on our field trip to Caesar Creek Lake last semester. … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tabulate coral from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio

Mark Wilson December 18, 2015 12:10 am

We have here another fossil collected by a Wooster student on the August 2015 College of Wooster Invertebrate Paleontology field trip to Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio. Eduardo Luna picked up this specimen of the tabulate coral Calapoecia huronensis (Billings, 1865) … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A common trilobite from the Upper Ordovician of Ohio

Mark Wilson December 11, 2015 12:28 am

This beautiful specimen was collected by Wooster student Eve Caudill on this year’s College of Wooster Invertebrate Paleontology field trip to Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio. It is the iconic trilobite Flexicalymene meeki (Foerste, 1910) from a soft, “buttery” shale in … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A fragmentary rostroconch from the Middle Devonian of Ohio

Mark Wilson November 27, 2015 12:15 am

Not all of our featured fossils are particularly beautiful, or even entire, but they are interesting in some way. Above is the broken cross-section of a rostroconch mollusk known as Hippocardia Brown, 1843. It was found somewhere in Ohio by … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Pseudofossils of the Week: Cone-in-cone structures from southern Ohio

Mark Wilson October 30, 2015 12:04 am

Author’s note: James Chesire convinced me through the comments and later correspondence that what we actually have here are cone-in-cone structures, not shatter cones. I’ve thus changed the title but have left the post below in its original form. They … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A starry bryozoan from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio

Mark Wilson September 11, 2015 12:01 am

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 →

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Wooster Paleontologists return to Caesar Creek Lake

Mark Wilson September 6, 2015 8:28 pm

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 →

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