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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Beautiful molds on a concretion (Lower Carboniferous of Ohio)
Kit Price (’13) was exploring a local creek on a Geomorphology course field trip north of Wooster led by Dr. Greg Wiles. Like the excellent paleontologist Kit is, her eyes continually searched the pebbles, cobbles, slabs and outcrops for that … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Beautiful molds on a concretion (Lower Carboniferous of Ohio)
Kit Price (’13) was exploring a local creek on a Geomorphology course field trip north of Wooster led by Dr. Greg Wiles. Like the excellent paleontologist Kit is, her eyes continually searched the pebbles, cobbles, slabs and outcrops for that … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Beautiful molds on a concretion (Lower Carboniferous of Ohio)
Kit Price (’13) was exploring a local creek on a Geomorphology course field trip north of Wooster led by Dr. Greg Wiles. Like the excellent paleontologist Kit is, her eyes continually searched the pebbles, cobbles, slabs and outcrops for that … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Beautiful molds on a concretion (Lower Carboniferous of Ohio)
Kit Price (’13) was exploring a local creek on a Geomorphology course field trip north of Wooster led by Dr. Greg Wiles. Like the excellent paleontologist Kit is, her eyes continually searched the pebbles, cobbles, slabs and outcrops for that … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Beautiful molds on a concretion (Lower Carboniferous of Ohio)
Kit Price (’13) was exploring a local creek on a Geomorphology course field trip north of Wooster led by Dr. Greg Wiles. Like the excellent paleontologist Kit is, her eyes continually searched the pebbles, cobbles, slabs and outcrops for that … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Beautiful molds on a concretion (Lower Carboniferous of Ohio)
Kit Price (’13) was exploring a local creek on a Geomorphology course field trip north of Wooster led by Dr. Greg Wiles. Like the excellent paleontologist Kit is, her eyes continually searched the pebbles, cobbles, slabs and outcrops for that … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: a deformed brachiopod (Upper Ordovician of Indiana)
Kevin Silver (’13), a sharp-eyed paleontology student, found this odd brachiopod on our field trip earlier this month in southeastern Indiana. It comes from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) Whitewater Formation. Kevin correctly identified it as Vinl… Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: a little sclerobiont community (Upper Ordovician of Indiana)
Last week the students of my Invertebrate Paleontology class found many excellent fossils in the Whitewater and Liberty Formations of southeastern Indiana. We will be featuring some of them in this space. I want to start with one of my … Continue… Continue reading
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Paleontology field trip in southeastern Indiana
RICHMOND, INDIANA–Geology students in the Cincinnati area are a bit spoiled when it comes to finding fossils in the field. The Upper Ordovician rocks here are world-famous for the extraordinary abundance, variety and preservation of invertebrate … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: a twisted little crinoid (Lower Silurian of Estonia)
This week’s fossil is a tiny little crinoid with an odd shape. Calceocrinus balticensis (shown above with the scale bar as one millimeter) is a new species from the Lower Silurian (Llandovery) of Hiiumaa, western Estonia. It is part of … Co… Continue reading
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