#Fractofusus is the most common organism at many of the #Ediacaran fossil sites in #Newfoundland, and it's also one of the best preserved. Here we can see the complex branching they possessed, preserved in exquisite detail.
#FossilFriday #FractofususFriday
Happy #FossilFriday, brought to you this week from the #Ediacaran Johnson Discovery Surface in Discovery UNESCO Global geopark. This lovely #Bradgatia like #Fractofusus shows the wonderful fractal-like branching of the #Rangeomorpha for your enjoyment. @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social
some seafloor necromass. At the type locality in @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social #unesco #geopark
the Lydonia are surrounded by and even over growing #Fractofusus andersoni. I couldn’t get a more fluffy #beggiatoa -like matground to look right so i went with something sparser.
This #FossilFriday we have wrapped up a wonderful field season in Newfoundland on #Ediacaran life - here are some tiny #Fractofusus for #FractofususFriday from Mistaken Point
large obovate fossils from Discovery geopark covered in mesh like textures or pimples (previously called Blackbrookia and informally “pimply melons”) surrounded by many rounded fractal like Fractofusus andersoni
detail of a “blackbrookia” showing the mesh like texture interpreted as the cross section through the base of spike like papillae
Happy #FossilFriday from Johnson Discovery Surface in @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social, famous for its #Fractofusus andersoni, but which also has large enigmatic forms dubbed #Blackbrookia (now considered a pseudofossil). The JDS material is however covered in pimples or meshes not seen in the type.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A few more zooms with species from my #MistakenPoint #Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with
@dmcediacaran.bsky.social at Memorial University, #Newfoundland.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Zooms with species from my #MistakenPoint #Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with @dmcediacaran.bsky.social at Memorial University, #Newfoundland.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #FossilFriday #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's my 2024 #MistakenPoint #Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with @dmcediacaran.bsky.social & his team at Memorial University, #Newfoundland.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #FossilFriday #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia
hand painted cast of a fractofusus with leaf like fractal branches arranged in 2 rows across a central curved axis
This #FossilFriday offering is a hand painted cast of the Ediacaran fractal-like #Fractofusus misrai from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland for an outreach project i’m doing. This is one of the abundant curvy specimens that Rod Taylor worked on for this cool paper www.researchgate.net/publication/...
The Ediacaran aged fossil Fractofusus andersoni, a fractal like rangeomorph organism shaped like a spindle from about 560 million years ago. this one is about 10cm long
This #FossilFriday we are tying up a paper on the morphometrics of #Ediacaran #Fractofusus. This is F. andersoni which is particularly common in Discovery Geopark, Bonavista Peninsula,NL. Named after Mike Anderson a professor at Memorial who was involved in discovery of Mistaken Point fossils
This #FossilFriday, let’s also celebrate #FractofususFriday! Here’s a cast of several #Fractofusus specimens growing around (and likely absorbing nutrients from) a large mass of decaying tissue on the #Ediacaran sea floor. From Mistaken Point, #Newfoundland.
