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.
A Jurassic brachiopod (Stiphrothyris sp.) overgrown by a sponge, a bryozoan (Stomatopora sp.) & several oysters. ~ 39 mm longest dimension. #FossilFriday #palaeontology #paleontology
The wonderful malacology curator at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Jennifer Trimble, showed me around last week! I saw a model of the biggest Giant Pacific Octopus, a drawer full of argonaut shells, and a box of squid beaks found in the stomach of a dead whale in 1869 🤯 I LOVE MUSEUMS
Check out MorphSim! A R package simulating realistic morphological matrices for total-evidence and tip-dated phylogenetics, incl. taphonomic preservation biases; in collaboration with Rachel Warnock, member of the Scientific Advisory Board and Summer School instructor. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.70326
We are at Lyme Regis #FossilFestival this weekend! Swing by the Hub to talk to our researchers and students about chalk sea #Cretaceous ecosystems and play our game 'pin the tail on the chalk fish'!
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I've found some nice echinoderms at the MAPS show this week.
This is a large Acrocrinus with a Platyceratid snail attached to the tegmen. It's from the Mississippian Bangor Lm. of Alabama.
#FossilFriday
This is really incredible! "This area has a deep and extensive accumulation comprising five modern natural whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans recorded."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#technician #micropalaeontology #plankton #NERC
I encountered an Electric Flame Scallop exhibiting its illusory method of warding off predators by shimmering its mantle, giving the impression it is electric.
#marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography
It's been a while since I posted something for #FossilFriday !
This time I present Ordosoceras sphaeriforme from the #Ordovician of China, an actinoceratid #cephalopod with one of the strangest siphuncles I know. Compare this to modern #Nautilus !
