Iron staining on Ordovician bryozoan hash, next to a shell, really bad at deciphering brachiopod vs bivalve so we’ll leave it at shell…#FossilFriday

Moody Ordovician brachs for this most holy of #FossilFriday

Look at how big that Devonian bivalve is! Extra #FossilFriday, this one was found outside Wardensville wv by Max

Hey it’s #FossilFriday so how’s about this little Devonian gastropod you absolute sea snail?

Late #FossilFriday came across the last pics I got to take of the holotype of Needmorella simoni before sending it off forever. It’s now more traveled than I am as it’s been to Australia and back to the US where it’s now chilling in the Smithsonian, something I wish I could say for myself

Happy #TrilobiteTuesday from the mid Devonian of WV you filthy animals

Late #FossilFriday from the early/mid Devonian, Kettneraspis head next to a goniatite.

#FossilFriday‼️ 😲 Remarkably large (~20" or 50 cm) ammonite from an Alabama creek exposing Upper Cretaceous sediments. The specimen is still underwater in this photo (see tadpoles 🐸). Specimen @almnh.bsky.social. Discovered by George Martin. #paleontology #fossil #Alabama

A surface with multiple curving to straight raised ridges on a surface; ridges have grooves in their middles and finely defined chevrons. This surface is an epoxy-resin replica of a sedimentary rock surface from the Early Ordovician (~480 mya) of Portugal, and the ridges were natural casts of trilobite burrows. Replica was part of a "Fossil Art" display put together by ichnologist Dolf Seilacher.

For #FossilFriday, a dramatically lit replica (epoxy-resin cast) of an Early Ordovician (~480 mya) sedimentary-rock surface from Portugal with abundant trilobite burrows. Replica was part of a traveling display put together by ichnologist Dolf Seliacher that he titled "Fossil Art." 🧪🪨⚒️

Macro Devonian crinoids for this #FossilFriday from Maryland but don’t hold that against them

It’s late for a #FossilFriday and it’s been a while for me on here but I found this Devonian crinoid in a quarry with fossil friend Max the other week and was feeling pretty happy with it. When I spotted it only what you see to the right of the vertical crack was showing, very mud covered.

Thats’s 10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the tail, the tail….the whole damned tail

At the end of the day, are we all not pigs-in-a-blanket in a slowly warming oven of our own making? A delicious fate

LITHOSTROTIONELLA!!!!! State gem of my home, West Virginia. This is the piece that first got me into fossils as a kid when I found it in the Greenbrier river. #FossilFriday

Textures for #FossilFriday

Missed the last #FossilFriday and #TrilobiteTuesday of the year but I’m using the first day of the new year to wish cast. Found this butt a couple years ago now in a place I always dig. It’s an undescribed odontopleurid. I’ve never found another piece. I WILL find more this year.

Fossilized sea scorpions of Eurypterus on original rock or matrix showing one complete specimen along with other fragmentary individuals.

A sea scorpion fossils of Eurypterus tetragonophthalmus from Volyn-Podillya, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. These Silurian aged eurypterids are synonymous with the species Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus. #FossilFriday

#eurypterid #fossil #paleontology #eurypterus #baltoeurypterus

Happy trilobite Tuesday

Alright one of these four partial mid Devonian trilobite thoraxes is not a Viaphacops. It’s a Needmorella simoni and if you’re a real fossil sicko like myself you’ll be able to spot it. Take a guess, sicko. Happy fossil Friday

Small stone, possibly shaped or knapped, showing tiny spirals with dark hatch marks. The spirals are single-celled animal shells.

A chert shard, showing perfect cross-sections of forams. Tiny spirals, nature's hidden order.

A possible abortive point, maybe kept for its beauty?
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒️🦕

Hah! Ripple rock bonanza! Newly placed pavers in shepherdstown, I’m telling you that place is lousy with them. Usually used in walls or old buildings, the others I’ve seen before in town have been local Cambrian lime. How many can you count?

Yeah maybe he’s like a glass half full trilobite

Hey trilobite Tuesday, look at this total hack job at preparation! Someday I’ll spend the time and money needed to make this stuff look better lol

question for ratmongers: i need about 100,000 rats pronto, does ratstarter still take 5% of the eggs or should i just use goratme

This belated fossil Friday I get to show off, after 4 years of searching, an intact Needmorella eye. Always find them folded over like a taco and you can tell why; look at how thin it is! Need to find out how to draw up a lens map, if possible

It’s trilobite Tuesday and this things pretty tiny, but pretty complete as well. Viaphacops from the Needmore of WV, mid Devonian

Assorted carboniferous critters

YouTube video by Kiabugboy Trilobite Soft Tissue

Trilobite video's finally done, hope you'll give it a look ☺️
youtu.be/vGcsiJaz9kU?...

#sciArt #Trilobite #paleoart #3Danimation #paleontology