#brachiopod #palaeontology #ArtandScience #spines #scienceforall

Dive into the Devonian? Don't mind if we do! 🤿🌊

Wanna learn more? Head to bit.ly/devonian-brachiopod & tune in next week for another #FossilFriday feature from the Paleo Research Institute collection:
www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/vc/

#Fossil #Paleontology #Devonian #Geology #Brachiopod

3/4 front view of my spirifer 3d model, still a work in progress. It shows the inside of the ventral mantle since the ventral shell is removed the mantle itself is 'cut' in half to show the inside of the visceral mass, the blobby bits at the center of the soft body that contains all the organs like the gut and muscles

side view of the spirifer 3d model, showing just the outline of the shell without the visceral mass

Starting to regret my decision to cover their internal musculature as well...
#SciArt #WIP #Brachiopod

3D model of a generic spiriferid Brachiopod. It superficially looks like a clam where the sides of the shell tapers into points But Brachiopods are Lophophorates, not molluscs

Spiriferid
#Brachiopod #3Dart

Fossil Brachiopod.
#FossilFriday #fossil #brachiopod #fossilbrachiopod

Happy #fossilfriday
Here is a neat #brachiopod, #Leptagonia ? from the #burlington limestone of Missouri
#fossilsofmissouri

Happy #fossilfriday
Checkout this cool #Mississippian ? #brachiopod which I believe is #Composita encrusted by some #bryozoa #fossilsofmissouri

An irregularly shaped slab of buff coloured limestone features in the upper left a large, flat dorsal (brachial) valve of a Strophomenida brachiopod. The valve is approximately semicircular in outline and measures about 8 cm wide across the essentially straight hinge line. Low slightly curved ribs radiate from the valve apex to the shall margin. Faint concentric ridges mark the former valve outline at earlier growth stages. To the right of the brachiopod is a lengthwise cross section through a curving solitary rugosan coral. Other fragmentary fossils are present on the same surface. A scale in the lower right is graduated in millimetres.

A big #brachiopod dorsal valve for #FossilFriday. This #Devonian (~393 MYA) #strophomenid measures about 8 cm across the straight (=strophic) hinge. Bonus appearance = longitudinal section thru' a solitary rugosan #coral to the right. Kwataboahegan Fm, Kwataboahegan R, #HudsonBayLowland, #Ontario 🇨🇦

A view into the interior of a well-preserved brachiopod dorsal valve. The shell remained sediment-free after burial, but was secondarily coated on the inside by tiny quartz crystals. The delicate spiralled lophophore supports (spiralia) have also been "silicified" -- best seen on the left in this image. The valve is 24 mm (just under 1 inch) in width.

Coming in late for #FossilFriday with a lovely little early #Silurian (~436 MYA) spirifirid #brachiopod, Meristina obtusa. Interior view of dorsal valve showing preserved spiralia on left & partial drusy quartz cement infill. Width of valve = 24 mm. Attawapiskat Fm, #Akimiski Is, #Nunavut 🇨🇦

Always use gloves.

Giulia ordering her #mineral and #fossil #collection.

#minerals #fossils #crystal #crystals #ammonite #nautilus #belemnite #belemnites #shell #brachiopod #prehistoric #stone #stones #stair #geology #paleontology #tower

Next: here is a #bryozoan and #brachiopod fragment-rich specimen from the Middle-Silurian Rochester Shale (~430 Ma). #FossilFriday 🤩

RISE AND BRINE #brachiopod #fairyshrimp #brineshrimp #anomalocaris

Gotta love that the first demo involves a #fossil #brachiopod!

Fossil of the day, an impression of a Devonian Brachiopod, Mucrospirifer Mucronatus, around 370 million years old in sandstone. ~Gretchen
#rockhound #iloverocks #fossil #brachiopod #pittsburghpennsylvania

Deloprosopus front 3/4 view showing the spring-shaped spirolophe inside

Deloprosopus dorsal view showing the brachial valve, shaped superficially like a seashell

Deloprosopus side view, showing the strange cashew shaped beak on the ventral valve

Deloprosopus side view with closed valves

Deloprosopus, a late Ordovician Pentamerid Brachiopod from Peary Land

#sciArt #paleoart #Brachiopod #Ordovician #Blender3D

Happy #FossilFriday
Check out these neat #bryozoans on a #brachiopod and on what looks like a fragment of an Isotelus maximus hypostome
#peebles formation

A series of coral and brachiopod fossils displayed in a clear plastic container

Several coral fossils are displayed in a clear container along with a rock that has a circular hole almost all the way through it.

Various river stones and minerals displayed in a one gallon fish tank alongside a druzy quartz geode.

From top to bottom: a bison tooth fossil, an ammonite fossil, and fossilized coral

I found a pretty cool way to display my collection w an old tank & some Dollar Tree bins (all but the amethyst found in IN by yours truly 😁)
#rockcollecting #rockhounds #upcycle #indiana #fossil #geology #geode #ammonitefossil #druzyquartz #brachiopod #horncoral #amethyst

Happy #FossilFriday
Check out this sample dominated by cool brachiopods from the Ordovician Bellevue Formation. Also found a neat little thing which I am not sure of yet. Any guesses?
#Bellevue
#ordovician
#brachiopod

Beautiful #brachiopod fossils ✨🤓

#geology #palaeontology #science #collection #museum #vilnius

Check out this absolutely amazing glittery #brachiopod with structures of the #lophophore preserved

Happy #FossilFriday
Check out this beautiful #brachiopod from the #Peebles Formation. The infilled sediments have some super neat #bryozoans
#fossilsofohio
#mississipian

duck bill shaped shell with green layers to the right, around the quadrate side

Duck bill shaped shell with green layers around the quadrate shaped edge. belonging to a bivalve organism with very old ancestry

The other #BRACHIOPOD post was well received, so let's complete the set with the OTHER type! those with stalks! Lingula anatina! Shells are top and bottom rather than left and right! The group has a record dating back to Paleozoic-and this taxon still alive today!

shell of an animal called a brachiopod-oriented up and down rather than left and right with ribs on each valve.

A #BRACHIOPOD shell of a living species! from California! Terebratalia occidentalis (which literally means western Terebratalia) Not a mollusc-but its own phylum dating back to the Paleozoic.

#fossilfriday, very nice silicified #brachiopod, showing it's internal system to filter water and feed.

3D model of a middle Cambrian brachiopod Neobolus wulongqingensis, barely a centimeter

A Lollipop
(Neobolus wulongqingensis)
#Sciart #brachiopod #paleoart

Sketchbook page of various upper Ordovician laurentian animals From top left: archaeocrinus, diestoceras(Oncocerid), isorthoceras, armenoceras Middle left: tcherskidium and proconchidium brachiopod From bottom left: aulacerid 2 meter tall sponges, Deloprosopus, phacelloid corals Top right: uncolored sketch of stromatoporoid and aulacerid sponge reef

Late Ordovician, Laurentian warm water reef
#SciArt #Ordovician #paleoart #brachiopod #paleontology #orthoceras #oncocerid

Merry Christmas!! Feliz Natal!! Feliz Navidad!! Insert more languages here...

#digitalart #art #artwork #fossil #trilobite #ammonite #sweets #candy #pastries #paleoart #chocolate #foodart #cuteart #krita #procreate #happyholidays #holidays #brachiopod #echinoderm

Sketchbook showing Cambrian worm (top left), Vetulicolian (top right), brachiopod (bottom left), palaeolenus trilobite (bottom right) all colored in brown Left corner also shows rough sketch of their accurate size next to a pen

Laptop's still in repair, so I'm spending my time back with paper and pen

Some studies of the Guanshan biota

#SciArt #trilobite #brachiopod #cambrianperiod #vetulicolia

#Brachiopod (#fossilday ) Paraspirifer bownockeri 380 million years old

#Brachiopod (#fossilday ) Paraspirifer bownockeri 380 million years old

Pyrite replaced brachiopod fossil from Sylvania, Ohio. #pyrite #brachiopod #pseudomorph #sylvania #ohio #usa #fossils #minerals #crystals