Awesome new paper by Thomas Clements and co-authors!
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2369
Fun fact: despite the name similarity, I have nothing to do with Pohlsepia or Palaeocadmus pohli 😉
#cephalopods #coleoids #coleoid #octopus #taphonomy #Carboniferous
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Mazon Monday #316: Sublepidophloios protuberans #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #MazonMonday #lycopsid #carboniferous #pennsylvanian #illinois
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#horsetail shoot with leaves annularia spinnulosa #carboniferous 354 290 million years ago mazon creek illinois
#horsetail shoot with leaves annularia spinnulosa #carboniferous 354 290 million years ago mazon creek illinois
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ESCONI Field Trip to Danville Shale Pile Fossils – Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 #fieldtrip #fossils #paleontology #danville #carboniferous #pennsylvanian
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Rhenocycloceras scalare (d’Archiac & de Verneuil, 1842) gen. et comb. nov., all from Herborn. A. Reproduction of the illustration by Sandberger & Sandberger (1850–1856: pl. 19 fig. 6), composed of specimens Wiesbaden 97a and 97b. B. Neotype Wiesbaden 97a (Sandberger Coll.). C. Specimen Wiesbaden 97b (Sandberger Coll.). D. Reproduction of the illustration by Sandberger & Sandberger (1850–1856: pl. 19 fig. 6a), specimen Wiesbaden 97c, ornament detail. E. Specimen Wiesbaden 97c (Sandberger Coll.). Scale bar units: 1 mm.
New paper out by Dieter Korn and Martina Aubrechtová on a strange group of #Carboniferous #orthoceratoid #cephalopods!
https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1048.3231
#FossilFriday #Palaeontology #taxonomy
![#Coalforests or coal swamps were the vast swathes of freshwater swamp and riparian forests that covered much of the lands on Earth's tropical regions during the late #Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) and #Permianperiods.[1][2] As plant matter from these wetland](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kwb4no4g6e3dkyysuzjoenh4/bafkreieohev7pkemszefulyhvnkhylm5b3r3apxv3rxevkakaftex7kz5e)
#Coalforests or coal swamps were the vast swathes of freshwater swamp and riparian forests that covered much of the lands on Earth's tropical regions during the late #Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) and #Permianperiods.[1][2] As plant matter from these wetland
#Coalforests or coal swamps were the vast swathes of freshwater swamp and riparian forests that covered much of the lands on Earth's tropical regions during the late #Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) and #Permianperiods.[1][2] As plant matter from these wetland
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2026 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #25: Calomostachys Cone #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #ESCONIShow #carboniferous #pennsylvanian
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What do giant coackroaches & coal have in common?🪳🤔
Wanna learn more? Head to bit.ly/carboniferous-cockroach & tune in next week for another #FossilFriday feature from the Paleo Research Institute collection:
www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/vc/
#Fossil #Paleontology #Carboniferous #Geology #Coal
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Fossil Friday #309: Acanthotelson stimpsoni #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #FossilFriday #shrimp #MazonRiver #carboniferous #pennsylvanian
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2026 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #30: Mazon Creek Achistrum, sp. Colony #MazonCreek #fossils #paleontology #carboniferous…
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Few spaces left now so do hurry if you want to get involved in some #palaeontology fieldwork in the UK! This #Carboniferous site is already yielding great floral fossils & we’re hopeful to find some more faunal fossils soon!🤞
See below for more details ⬇️
#Fossils #Science #Research #Geology
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Mazon Monday #313: Mazon Creek Studies - the first 120 years #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #MazonMonday #history #pennsylvanian #carboniferous #FieldMuseum
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Fossil Friday #308: Beautiful things in small packages... #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #Pennsylvanian #carboniferous #paleobotany #seedfern
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This arachnid is a phalangiotarbid, an enigmatic order of paleozoic arachnids. Although being one of the best-known species of this group, its anatomy is still mysterious on some points. Size : 1,2cm of body length Time period : Late Carboniferous Paleoart speculativometer : Few missing details The animal drawn is a phalangiotarbid, an arachnid looking a bit like a super heavy spider and with an abdomen made of 6 little segments followed by a broad plate taking up to 2/3 of the abdomen's length
What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime !
For this entry we're talking about a phalangiotarbid from the carboniferous, Mesotarbus peteri!
All the basic infos are here but if you want to learn more, there’s more below!⬇️
#arthropod #carboniferous #arachnid #paleoart #sciart #bugsky #invert
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Mazon Monday #312: Sigillaria tessellata #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #MazonMonday #lycopod #lycophyte #pennsylvanian #carboniferous
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New in #Papers_in_Palaeontology, 12(2) #OpenAssess
"Carboniferous fossils enlighten the systematics and evolution of Hemiptera"
#wing_venation #Carboniferous #fossil_record
@mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social , Schubnel,T., Kundura,J., Garrouste,R., Nel, A. @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
👉 doi.org/10.1002/spp2...
Drawing showing biodiversity from the Carboniferous of Puertollano, which includes plants, arthropods, fish and tetrapods. From left to right, top to bottom: - The giant millipede Arthropleura walking through the forest floor, next to an amphibian (maker of the Puertollanopus tracks) and insects - General view of the swamp landscape, with a volcano erupting in the background - A early synapsid, maker of possible Dimetropus tracks - Pecopteris monyi, leaves of a tree fern - A pair of Acanthodes swimming through vegetation and smaller fish - The temnospondyl Iberospondylus schultzei swimming next to some platysomid fish - Small clam shrimp Euestheria - Two lycophytes Omphalophloios puertollanense next to some swamp creatures - The xenacanth Orthacanthus hunting in the murky waters - Juvenile shark Lissodus hiding from the fish Progyrolepis speciosus - Puertollanichthys richtei, a small fish, swimming through the vegetation
🌴🦈Carboniferous Puertollano🐸🌋
In the lands of La Mancha, fossils from the Late Carboniferous known from old coal mines reveal a tropical coastal swamp ecosystem, rich in aquatic and plant life
#paleoart #FossilFriday #Carboniferous #Puertollano
🧵Thread for additional explanation
Fossil Friday #306: Cyclus obesus #fossils #paleontology #FossilFriday #MazonCreek #pennsylvanian #carboniferous
Herbivorous terrestrial microsaurs from the late Carboniferous reveal this diet was ancestral to the divergence of amniotes 🌱🌿🌱(article with the late Hans Dieter Sues from the Smithsonian, how sad)
#carboniferous #earlyherbivory
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hylonomus sketch! 🦎
I decided to do paleoart everyday and I'm back to prehistoric life expert. #hylonomus #reptile #reptiles #lizard #prehistoric #prehistoricanimal #paleoart #extinct #extinctanimal #carboniferous #tetrapod #animal #animals #sketch #doodle #pencilart #sketches
Mazon Monday #310: Cyclus obesus #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #MazonMonday #cyclid #Carboniferous #pennsylvanian #cycloidea
Es gibt Rätselfossilien, von denen ich noch nichts wusste? Was verheimlicht ihr mir noch alles?!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusFSJSiOCQ
#paleontology #zoology #DeepTime #Carboniferous #H #Y
Mazon Monday #309: Herbivory is Older Than We Thought! #fossils #paleontology #MazonMonday #MazonCreek #SydneyMines #Canada #Carboniferous #Pennsylvanian #tetrapods
The Brymbo Fossil Forest is offering students the chance to get involved in palaeontological excavations of a Carboniferous fossil forest in North Wales. QR code on image directs to further details.
🚨 UK Student Palaeo Research Opportunity 🚨
Brymbo Fossil Forest are offering students the chance to get involved in active palaeontology research & excavations ⚒️ at a unique #Carboniferous fossil site in Wales 🏴 - See below for more details ⬇️
#Paleontology #Geology #Fieldwork #FossilFriday #ECR
#Synapsids didn’t just appear out of nowhere in the #Permian, I am disappointed with the lack of information about their origins during the #Carboniferous period.
#PBS #NOVA
Mazon Monday #308: Acitheca polymorpha #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #MazonMonday #fern #carboniferous #pennsylvanian
Painterly illustration of light filtering into a Carboniferous swamp with various invertebrates including Arthropleura, Megasecopterans, Palaeodictyopterans, and the eyes of an ambiguous tetrapod peeking out of the water's surface.
Carboniferous illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project.
#Carboniferous #Illustration #Paleoart #Paleoillustration
Fossil Friday #303: Mounted Pecopteris notata #fossils #paleontology #history #MazonCreek #FossilFriday #fern #carboniferous #pennsylvanian #paleobotany
The age of oxygen and giant insects... #coalforests #carboniferous #prehistoric #evolution themeaningofwater.com/2023/01/29/t...
2026 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #3: Acanthotelson stimpsoni #fossils #paleontology #shrimp #MazonCreel #pennsylvanian #carboniferous
