Helen Morningstar

[2] She then decided to move to Pennsylvania and attended Bryn Mawr College, which offered higher education to women,[3] where she earned her Ph.D in philosophy in 1923.

[2] Morningstar started her career as an instructor of geology and paleontology at Ohio State University from 1917 to 1923,[1] and it was reported her salary at the time was estimated to be around $1,800.

She also wrote a paper with Percy E. Raymond which discusses the future of Pennsylvanian formations in Illinois and the Appalachian basin.

[8] In addition, she had contributed 5 specimens of Carboniferous bryozoans from Ohio, which were added to the United States National Museum in the year 1922–1923.

[10] With all of her outstanding accomplishments, her career ended up shifting from a paleontologist and geologist to a stay at home mother after the birth of her first child in 1923.

[1] Morningstar wrote a dissertation, which was published as part of her doctorate degree of philosophy, titled The Fauna of the Pottsville Formation of Ohio Below the Lower Merser Limestone (1922).

The lower and upper mercer ores are especially important to economic contribution as they are thick and contain a high amount of iron content.

Pictured Helen Morningstar (2nd on the left) on a geological trip to Hartman Farm near Lithopolis during the spring of 1911. Taken by W.J. Kostir of the Department of Zoology at the Ohio State University. [ 11 ]
Examples of fossils Helen Morningstar discovered at the Pottsville Formation