Invertebrate palaeontologist and bryozoologist at the Natural History Museum, London.
Paul D. Taylor
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#TrilobiteTuesday Ampyx from the Ordovician of Asker, Norway. On display in the Geologisk Museum, Oslo.
#TrilobiteTuesday. Individuals of Asaphellus fezouataensis are packed together in this incredible block from the Moroccan Ordovician which is on display at the Geological Museum in Oslo.
Preparing to speak to the Amateur Geological Society in north London this evening. It will be my first talk on this topic. Fingers crossed.
#MolluscMonday Sectioned gyrocone nautiloid displayed in the public galleries of the Oslo Geological Museum. Ordovician, USA.
Gearing up for my talk later this morning at the Larwood Symposium in Oslo.
The team for our artsdatabanken (Norwegian taxonomic initiative) project NorDigBryo visiting NHM Oslo in conjunction with Larwood Oslo #bryozoan this week. Thank you! We are up to 7000+ new digitized observations 300+ barcodes and maybe species nes to science!
#FossilFriday Silurian tabulate corals and crinoids in the stone facing of a building in Oslo. Braksøoya Formation from Brevik Quarry.
Museums hold collections for a reason: “Perhaps, he says, the next big breakthrough in charting our solar system’s deepest history won’t come from exploring some distant world but rather from studying samples of space rocks …from a drawer in a museum.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/rare...
Museum Collections 🌊 #WorldOceansDay
Feature: Sclerosponge (Acanthochaetetes wellsi)
Sclerosponges, a group of sponges, grow very slowly, so their limestone skeletons hold local climate records that can go back centuries.
🎧 More with Gustav Paulay: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/ob...
How many kinds of encrusting animal can you spot? Brachiopod from Traverse Group of Michigan, photo by a student of mine.
Hints of high-pressure chemistry within a rare meteorite suggest this fallen space rock comes from a planet gone wrong in the solar system’s early history
