Tag Archives: Ohio

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A ptilodictyine bryozoan from the Silurian of Ohio

mwilson May 15, 2015 1:00 am

The fossil above was found by Luke Kosowatz (’17) on our Sedimentology & Stratigraphy class field trip last month. We were measuring and sampling the Brassfield Formation (Early Silurian, Llandovery) near Fairborn, Ohio, and Luke pulled this beauty out of … Continue reading →

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A beautiful day for Wooster Geologists in the Silurian of Ohio

mwilson April 18, 2015 7:56 pm

FAIRBORN, OHIO–It’s field trip season at last for the Wooster Geologists. Several geology classes have now been out in Ohio, taking advantage of windows of spectacular weather. Today was one of those days for 25 students in the Sedimentology & … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A molded brachiopod from the Lower Carboniferous of Ohio

mwilson February 20, 2015 1:10 am

We haven’t had a local fossil featured on this blog for awhile. Above is an external mold of the spiriferinid brachiopod Syringothyris typa Winchell, 1863, from the Logan Formation (Lower Carboniferous, Osagean, about 345 million years old) of southeastern Wooster, … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Beautiful trace fossils from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio

mwilson December 19, 2014 12:15 am

Every year we highlight at least one of the fossils found and studied by Wooster’s Invertebrate Paleontology class as part of their field and laboratory exercises. This year it is this nice slab of trace fossils collected by Curtis Davies … Continue reading →

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Last Fieldtrip for Climate Change

gwiles November 13, 2014 11:27 am

As the weather cools – the Wooster Geology Climate Change class ventured out in the field one more time. For the remainder of the semester we will try to get some work done. Two sites were visited – the Cedar Creek … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Upper Carboniferous seed casts from northeastern Ohio

mwilson October 31, 2014 1:29 am

We haven’t had a paleobotanical fossil of the week for awhile, so here are a couple of nice seed casts from the Upper Carboniferous Massillon Sandstone exposed near Youngstown, Ohio. They fall within the “form genus” Trigonocarpus Brongniart 1828. A … Continue reading →

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An Epic Geologic Competition in Cuyahoga Valley National Park

sjudge October 26, 2014 5:05 pm

VIRGINIA KENDALL, CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK (CVNP) — What an absolutely awesome day for geology in the field!!  One of my geologic mentors once told me that “every day in the field is a day of vacation”, and today proved … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists return to the Cedar Creek Bog and Excavation Site

mwilson October 25, 2014 5:18 pm

WOOSTER, OHIO–Greg Wiles and I got to experience a bit of field archaeology today at the Cedar Creek Mastodon excavation site. Greg’s Climate change class has visited the site and its associated bog twice this semester: once to do some … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A crinoid calyx from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio

mwilson September 26, 2014 1:52 am

This week’s contribution from the Wooster collections will be short. If all is going well, as this is posted I’m on my way to the Fourth International Palaeontological Congress in Mendoza, Argentina. I hope to have a few posts from … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A hardground with rugose corals from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio

mwilson September 5, 2014 1:36 am

The above slab is a carbonate hardground from the Liberty Formation (Upper Ordovician) of southern Ohio. Carbonate hardgrounds are cemented seafloors, so we’re actually looking at the hard rocky bottom of an Ordovician sea. I’ve long found the idea of … Continue reading →

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