My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
...and the last post from 2022. Here's a study of Orthacanthus, for a project I cannot talk about yet. Orthacanthus, is a freshwater elasmobranch (shark) from the Carboniferous and Permian Periods.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms into my "Primeval Clevedon Bay" painting (2022), depicting fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods in an Early Carboniferous shallow sea. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.
Beautiful cover of the latest issue of the Science Advances journal, featuring a fossil of Arthropleura, the largest arthropod of all time.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some illustrations of a Carboniferous landscape through climate change, for the National Museum Scotland. 1) Desert. 2) Flood. 3) Drought. 4) Marsh. 5) Forest. 6) Forest fire.
Speculative solar system landscapes
Comment on s'est longtemps représenté le monde de Vénus, évoquant l'époque Carbonifère terrestre
/How we have long represented the world of Venus, evoking the terrestrial Carboniferous era
by Lucien Rudaux, Sur les autres mondes (1937)
On a moonlit night in the early Carboniferous, two Pulmonoscorpius do a mating dance in the Lepidodendron swamp. Although the giant scorpions have little interest in prey right now, a Balanerpeton amphibian wisely decides to swim away, while several Casineria sleep through the night in the copious tree litter.
About 345 to 290 million years ago, Arthropleura grew to 2.5m (8ft) in length, making it the biggest arthropod of all time.
A coil of fossilized flotation chambers- When living the connected internal chambers in this Goniatite shell would have contained a mixture of liquid and gasses. By applying pressure to this gass and liquid mixture the Goniatite would have been able to control its buoyancy much like modern submarines do. County Clare, Ireland.
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An assortment of Bryozoan fossils from the Carboniferous period (over 300 million years ago). County Donegal, Ireland.
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A Carboniferous period Solitary Rugose Coral fossil. The iron oxide staining really brings out the internal details.
County Donegal, Ireland.
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@KateShaw 's latest episode is a great episode about that fabulous Carboniferous weirdo, the Tully Monster!
https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2023/07/31/episode-339-the-tully-monster/
strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.netEpisode 339: The Tully Monster! | Strange Animals Podcast
Well, Ediacaran girls are hip
I really dig their sessile forms
And the Cambrian girls took the world by storm
In those ancient seas so warm
The girls of the late Permian really know how to hold on tight
And the Devonian girls with those tails and fins
Filled the sea with scales alright
But, I wish they all could be Carboniferous (Girls)
I wish they all could be Carboniferous
I wish they all could be Carboniferous girls
Scientists reveal face of 10-foot 'killer tadpole' that terrorized Earth long before the dinosaurs
With huge teeth and large eyes, Crassigyrinus scoticus was specially adapted to hunt in the coal swamps of Scotland and North America.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/fossils/scientists-reveal-face-of-10-foot-killer-tadpole-that-terrorized-earth-long-before-the-dinosaurs #tetrapod #predator #teeth #Carboniferous
Live ScienceScientists reveal face of 10-foot 'killer tadpole' that terrorized Earth long before the dinosaurs
Happy belated #FossilFriday from the #Carboniferous of Germany 
For #FossilFriday I bring you this *gorgeous* #arachnid Eophrynus prestvicii. This is a member of an extinct group, called the trigonotarbids. In the Late #Carboniferous - ~315 million years ago - it looks like these creepy crawlies were struggling due to nasty vertebrate predators with teeth. But potentially not a great swallow reflex. Hence spines - potentially a good way to protect yourself (but we don't know for sure).
#fossilfriday #fossil #NovaScotia
#fossils #Geology #paleontology
#carboniferous
2015, Minas Basin, low tide only. It has now eroded away. I thought it would be nice to share it on #FossilFriday
My guess would be a Lycophyte plant.
(For scale, kid was 5 feet tall. It was deep enough for her to pretend play "vampire" in it)
Folded Carboniferous shales and sandstones at Hartland Quay, Devon, England. #fridayfold #foldfriday #mountains #rock #coast #devon #england #unitedkingdom #carboniferous #hartland #geology
In November, Ralf Werneburg and Jörg Schneider published a new genus and species of notostracan-like crustacean from the late Carboniferous of Germany: Thuringiops nephroides. They rightfully assessed that it probably belongs somewhere on the stem to the kazacharthran lineage (the monophyly of that is another issue entirely). #crustacea #arthropoda #branchiopoda #notostraca #paleontology #palaeontology #newspecies #systematics #germany #carboniferous
One of my favourite wee pieces of rock - adorable crinoidal limestone 