#Halloween2023 Mummified cat photographed in a Maastricht shop window twenty years ago.

Once again it's that time of the year 🎃

#MolluscMonday Late Cretaceous heteromorph ammonite (perhaps Scalarites) photographed during 2006 at the fossil museum in Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan.

Increasing Risk Of Invasive Species Colonization On Marine Debris eurasiareview.com/29102023-incre…

Unbelievable fossil marble columns at Saint Elias Maronite Church (a.k.a. Aquarium)
📍Beirut, Lebanon
Pavement Geology
Dr. O. Serkan ANGI
#urbangeology #fossil

The rainy weather here in SW France has the advantage of wetting the paving stones and making the burrows in the Cretaceous limestone much more obvious.

Yes. its real. with a USNM catalog number and everything.

Some fossils in the ground marbles.

📍Architecture Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Pavement Geology
Dr. O. Serkan ANGI
#urbangeology #fossil

#FossilFriday Unusual anthropomorphic version of a snakestone ammonite adorning the band of a hat worn by a palaeontologist in South Dakota.

🗣️New paper! Dr Tom Harvey University of Leicester reports the discovery of Cambrian colonial phytoplankton with defence mechanisms against predators entering the planktic realm. The fossils help solve the longstanding mystery of Cambrian 'acritarch' ecology. Leicester Geography

The art of mudcracks.

Matt Kasson, PhD 🍄🧫 Pascal Frey 🇺🇦 Here is a 170 million-year-old fossil on a Cycad leaf

New article in this month issue of American Scientist 🦑🦪🐌🐚. Thanks to UChicagoPress and NHM Science. 📸by Kevin Webb

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#MolluscMonday A Jurassic limpet, Symmetrocapulus tessoni from the Great Oolite of Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire.

My namesake Paul is famous for its pastries but this is the first time I have seen a fossil in one of their branches. This section through the upper stem columnals of the Jurassic crinoid Apiocrinus was photographed today on the floor of the Paul at the Aire d’Alencon in France.

Spooky season is here 🎃 and while bryozoans might not be the scariest animals around, their detailed morphology can occasionally resemble more ominous objects. Here is a 'toothy' Porella. #Bryozoa #NorDigBryo

#FossilFriday Known in fossil folklore as ‘poundstones', tests of the echinoid Clypeus plotii are common in the Cotswold hills of England and give their name to the Clypeus Grit Member of the Middle Jurassic Inferior Oolite.

It was a most fun session on #corals and #bryozoa #GSA2023 thank you all! We are Better Together! Dr. Jonathan Cybulski Arthur Porto Emanuela Di Martino Carl Simpson Kjetil Lysne Voje The Paleontological Society et al.

#MolluscMonday Handsome specimen of Pholadomya virgulosa from the Eocene London Clay of Portsmouth. 8 cm wide.

About 5 cm long and from the Ordovician of Queensland, this specimen is labelled as a trace fossil but does anyone recognise the ichnogenus?