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Fossil of the Week: A thoroughly bored bivalve from Florida

Mark Wilson March 11, 2023 3:32 pm

The Fossil of the Week series is no longer weekly, and the gnarly specimen above is not actually a fossil, but the brand is so embedded in this blog that I’m still using it for occasional contributions. Like the specimen … Continue reading →

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Fossils of the Week: An encrusted and bored oyster from Florida

Mark Wilson March 4, 2023 12:14 pm

The Fossil of the Week series is no longer weekly, and the beautiful specimen above is not actually a fossil, but the brand is so embedded in this blog that I’m going to use it! My friend Al Curran, an … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Recent Sponge Boring from South Carolina

Mark Wilson May 13, 2016 12:01 am

We’re not actually looking at fossils here, but this bivalve-coral-sponge assemblage from the very modern Myrtle Beach in South Carolina is too cool not to share. Jacob Nowell (Wooster ’18) picked it up while on Spring Break this year and … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A cheilostome bryozoan and serpulid worm bryolith from the Recent of Massachusetts

Mark Wilson October 13, 2013 1:33 am

A bryolith is a mobile, unattached mass of bryozoans. Cheilostome bryozoans are especially good at forming bryoliths because of their hardy skeletons and relatively rapid rates of growth. The above specimen is a bryolith collected by my good friend Al … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Intricate networks of tiny holes (clionaid sponge borings)

Mark Wilson May 13, 2012 1:28 am

The most effective agents of marine bioerosion today are among the simplest of animals: clionaid sponges. The traces they make in carbonate substrates are spherical chambers connected by short tunnels, as shown above in a modern example excavated in an … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: star sand (Recent of southern Japan)

Mark Wilson February 19, 2012 1:37 am

Yes, that “Recent” in the title was a clue that these are not actually fossils, but the little beauties fit the spirit of our series. This is sand from an unknown island beach in southern Japan. The spotted star-shaped grains … Continue reading →

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