Dr. Melina Jobbins. She's wearing an orange shirt and standing in front of a projector screen in which is displayed a phylogeny of placoderms along with some examples. She's looking directly out at the audience.

Two people looking at a fossil. The fossil is on a flat, grey rock matrix and is itself very dark, standing out nicely. One of the participants is pointing at a feature of the fossil while the other looks on.

Dr. Melina Jobbins standing in front of a wall, smiling and holding a 3D print of part of the jaw from Leptodontichtys, a genus of placoderm described by Dr. Jobbins in 2021.

A close-up of a fossil. On the top you can see the spiny element from the fin of an acanthodian, while below it are the scales of an agnathan.

On the Sunday of the Paleo 2026 symposium, we had a real treat - a workshop on placoderms and other early fishes by Dr. Melina Jobbins of the University of Manitoba!

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #fish #placoderm #alberta

A pair of fossilized fish head shield of a Bothriolepis on original matrix or rock.

A fossilized partial placoderm head shield from a Bothriolepis canadensis from the Escuminac Formation in Escuminac Bay, Quebec, Canada. Bothriolepis was a highly prolific Devonian aged genus of armored fish found across the world. #FossilFriday

#fish #placoderm #fossil #paleontology #bothriolepis

A pencil sketch of an anthropomorphic alligator wearing an innertube and water wings laying on the back of an overinflated Dunkleosteus toy.

For @draakvuur.bsky.social , Ashton on the chunky bitey blow-up #fish.

I don’t feel like the composition feels quite right and the #inflatable #dunkleosteus is a bit too fat. (This is the redesigned neon one, by the way.)

#placoderm #alligator #furryart #wip

Monster Portfolio 2026
#monsters #placoderm

WIP Burrinjucosteus asymmetricus
#WIP #sciart #burrinjuk #burrinjucosteus #buchanosteidae #devonian #arthrodira #placoderm #NewSouthWales

WIP Bulongosteus liui
#sciart #wip #arthrodire #placoderm #devonian #china #selenosteidae #bulongosteus

"How I made a magnetized model of a 385 million year old placoderm" brought to you by Flinders Palaeo and The SkullyWagLab @theskullywaglab.bsky.social

#placoderm #GogoFormation #arthrodire #Blender #3Dprinting

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a Gorgonichthys has caught and bitten a Cladoselache, blood and flesh escapes from the open wound, including out of the Gorgonichthys' spiracle and gill slit. one Kentuchia takes a bite from the carcass while two others swim around the Gorgonichthys. two iceburgs float along in the backround, dropstones can be seen falling out of the one closest to the camera Gorgonichthys is a large placoderm (jawed armoured fish) with a boxy head which lived in the same formation as Dunkleosteus. Cladoselache is a cartilaginous fish that appeared like a shark with a flat boxy head, males had a curved spine on their primary dorsal fin, while females lacked them. Kentuchia is an early rayfinned fish that had very forward placed eyes, giving it a very silly appearance

i felt like drawing a placoderm last month, so i drew Gorgonichthys. it's been sitting in my wips pile for ages now, not tooo happy with this but that's the nature of art i guess :]

#placoderm #fishart #sciart

#horrorai #weird #aiimages #iconoplasm #AIArt #tentacles #placoderm #fish #devonian #AIArtist #AIArtwork #GenerativeArt #DigitalArt #AIArtGallery #AIGeneratedArt #AIArtCommunity #digitalart #fantasyai #synthart #lovecraft

Life in the Shallow Seas of the Early Devonian Also Sucked

A partial buchanosteid median dorsal plate I finished preparing today. #placoderm

A partial #placoderm plate shown first in the field, and then after a month or so of acid preparation (and ammonium chloride coating). From near Wee Jasper in southern NSW.

WIP "Selenosteus brevis"
#sciart #cleveland #selenosteus #selenosteidae #placoderm #arthrodire #devonian #favoriteplacoderm

WIP "Driscollaspis pankowskiorum"
#sciart #placoderm #arthrodire #selenosteidae #driscollaspis #draconichthys #amazichthys #morocco #antiatlas #devonian

Here's a chibi Dunkleosteus I drew

#dunkleosteus #paleoart #traditionalpaleoart #devonian #palaeoart #fish #placoderm #traditionalart #traditionalartwork #traditionaldrawing #art #artwork #drawing

Graphite sketch of the imprint of Bothriolepis, a placoderm

Quick sketch of Bothriolepis, an antiarch #placoderm from a slab at the at the Canowindra fossil museum.

CT scanning an exciting new Gogo arthrodire (placoderm) specimen with new PhD student Austin at Flinders Tonsley CT lab yesterday #palaeontology #GogoFormation #placoderm

A pencil sketch of a living mountain of an anthropomorphic raptorial sperm whale in a drysuit, on an oversized inflatable dunkleosteus that bears more in common with a pufferfish at this point. It seems to be straining at the seams a bit, but nothing's given way yet...

An inflatable #dunkleosteus that's pretty big even by Melville's standards. I'm not sure how much more air the dunk can take.(This is the Mk II "happy neon" version.)

The foreshortening needs work, admittedly.

#devonian #placoderm #whale #drysuit #inflatable #pooltoy #furryart #wip

A red-cyan anaglyph of the armored skull and jaws of a dunkleosteus fossil in a display case.

Guess who found his red-cyan #3D glasses and some old photo experiments. (Photographed the feesh at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, May 2011.)

#dunkleosteus #anaglyph #placoderm #devonian #fish #cmnh #cleveland #naturalhistory

I enjoyed this 20 min doodle enough that I actually did some touch ups afterwards.
Bothriolepis cleaning the glass of it's aquarium.
Soft tissue around the mouth is very much speculative.

#paleoart #sciart #paleostream #placoderm

#paleoart #placoderm #coproliteposting #gigachad

Another paleoart catalogue bop with a Bothriolepis. Another funky placoderm fish. Love how the patterns came out on this! 🦑

#paleoart #paleontology #marinebiology #Devonian #placoderm #Bothriolepis

Back to my ever growing paleoart catalogue is a close cousin to the Dunk, Eastmanosteus pustulosus. A bullshark sized Arthrodire of the middle Devonian.

#paleoart #paleontology #marinebiology #placoderm #arthrodire #eastmanosteus #dunkleosteus #devonian

a Gorgonichthys swims by the surface of the ocean, a large iceberg floats by, dropstones sink as the large chunk of ice gradually melts. The image shows a little view from above the waterline, showing the tip of the iceberg and three snowcapped peaks, the leftmost two have a glacier between them. Gorgonichthys is an armoured fish called a placoderm, a group of powerful predatory fish that have bony armour on their heads, and large toothplates for biting through their prey. Gorgonichthys' lower toothplates are so long that the top of their jaws have holes which the longest points slot into once the mouth is closed.

Gorgonichthys because im working on smthn big i needed a break from
#sciart #placoderm #fish #fishart

Complete fossilized fish of a Coccosteus on original matrix or rock.

A fossilized placoderm of a Coccosteus cuspidatus from the Sandwick Fish Beds in Orkney, Scotland. This Devonian aged genus of arthrodiran armored fish was fairly small compared to its famous relatives like the Dunkleosteus. #FossilFriday

#fish #placoderm #fossil #paleontology #coccosteus