Tag Archives: Ohio

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

mwilson 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

mwilson 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

mwilson 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

mwilson 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

mwilson 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

mwilson 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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A Wooster Geologist goes to a Bigfoot meeting

mwilson August 29, 2015 8:17 pm

ORRVILLE, OHIO — The First-Year Seminar course I teach at Wooster is called “Nonsense! (And Why it’s So Popular)“. It is ostensibly about exploring irrational ideas in human society, such as astrology, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, quack medicine, the “paranormal” and … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Small and common orthid brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician of Ohio

mwilson August 7, 2015 12:11 am

One of the many benefits of posting a “Fossil of the Week” is that I learn a lot while researching the highlighted specimens. I not only learn new things, I learn that some things I thought I knew must be, … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A coiled nautiloid from the Middle Devonian of Ohio

mwilson July 17, 2015 12:10 am

The above fossil is a nautiloid cut in cross-section, showing the large body chamber at the bottom and behind it to the left and above the phragmocone, or chambered portion of the conch (shell). It is a species of Goldringia … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A Silurian encrinite from southwestern Ohio

mwilson May 22, 2015 12:51 am

The above rock was collected on our Sedimentology & Stratigraphy class field trip last month. It is an average piece of weathered Brassfield Formation (Early Silurian, Llandovery) from Oakes Quarry Park near Fairborn, Ohio (N 39.81472°, W 83.99471°). It is … Continue reading →

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