Palaeontologist, science interpreter, nature lover and music collector.
Dr. Rod Taylor
This #FossilFriday, we go back to the #Ediacaran with #Fractofusus. This image shows several specimens of different size, orientation and levels of detail preserved. The darker sections represent the overlying ash bed that preserved these organisms in such exquisite detail. #fractofususfriday
I’m a bit late to #FossilFriday today as I’m in the field (literally) clearing at Inner Meadow. But how about a lovely Charnia gracilis to be getting on with. From #InnerMeadow of course.
As tempting as it is to spend all my time in the field at Inner Meadow. This week i went on an Ediacaran adventure up the Bay de Verde Pen. with @jeffontherock.bsky.social looking at the post #KotlinCrisis interval at beautiful sites on the barrens. Access is more open after devastating fires last…
Happy #FossilFriday from the #Ediacaran at #InnerMeadow. I’ve been focussing on removing boulders and soil the last couple of weeks but this beauty popped out. It is a scan of the natural cast of the base of a large #Aninoides
In the latest of our string of papers on the new #Ediacaran Inner Meadow Lagerstätte here is an account of the distinctive bubble like textures (paywalled sorry but $$) doi.org/10.1111/sed.... or ask for a copy :-).
Recently graduated MSc student Nagi Chida worked on the textures at…, #InnerMeadow
maybe my favorite thing on the internet:
neal.fun/deep-sea/
Cambrian jellyfish?!?!?! 😮
This #FossilFriday, a magnificent specimen of Arborea spinosa (formerly Charniodiscus spinosus) from the 565 million year old #Ediacaran deposits at Mistaken Point, #Newfoundland. And yes, those are Fractofusus misrai specimens around its margins. 😃 #FractofususFriday
This #FossilFriday: the new #Ediacaran exhibit at The @johnsongeocentre.bsky.social is finished, and is open to visitors! Thanks to Duncan McIlroy and Robert Nicholls for allowing us to use the artwork and for their support.
Come have a look this weekend, if you can. You know you want to. 😁
This #FossilFriday: where it all began! As a child, I regularly collected Cambrian trilobites at Manuels River with my older brothers. That eventually led me to becoming a palaeontologist and science educator, two roles I dearly love to this day. ❤️
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Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.
Something a bit different this #FossilFriday a fossil i’ve had on my desk for a while now.
This is a Cambrian member of the Coronatae, undescribed, from western Newfoundland that I found way back in 2017 (I think).
