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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Cretaceous oyster with borings and bryozoans from Mississippi
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| Date: | 2014-12-26 05:47:54 |
| Blog: | Wooster Geologists  |
| URL: | http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2014/12/26/woosters-fossil-of-the-week-a-cretaceous-oyster-with-borings-and-bryozoans-from-mississippi/ |
Summary:
As winter closes in on Ohio, I start dreaming about past field trips in warm places. This week’s fossil takes me back to fieldwork in Alabama and Mississippi during May of 2010. Paul Taylor (The Natural History Museum, London) and I studied the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleogene sections there with our students Caroline Sogot […]Content analysis:
Stratigraphic context:
| Recognized stratigraphic terms [n]: | Cretaceous [1] Upper Cretaceous [1] |
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| Agenames chronostratigraphy [rating]: | Cretaceous [0.5] Mesozoic [0.5] Phanerozoic [0.5] Upper Cretaceous [0.1] |
Geographic context:
| Location | Country | Latitude | Longitude |
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| Alabama | US | 32.6144 | -86.6807 |
| Mississippi | US | 32.5851 | -89.8737 |
| Ohio | US | 40.1903 | -82.6695 |
| Natural History Museum | GB | 51.4956 | -0.17531 |
Keywords:
borings, Cretaceous oyster, Fossil, Lower Paleogene sections, Mississippi As winter, Natural History Museum, past field trips, Paul Taylor, students Caroline Sogot, Uncategorized, Upper Cretaceous, warm places
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