Impact of environmental barriers on temnospondyl biogeography & dispersal during the Middle–Late Triassic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa… Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart Paleobiology Database Wiley Earth and Space Science

Many thanks Bryo_Abbie for the blog post all about packing up the NHM_Bryozoa collections ready for their new home. natsca.blog/2024/09/05/bry…

Special Issue of The Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand is out: Fossil Vertebrates from Southern Zealandia is dedicated to the late Ewan Fordyce. Proud to have a paper in this monument to the collections Ewan built and the people he mentored. otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…

On some colorful bryozoans from#Brazil: reevaluation of Aptonella violacea Canu & Bassler, 1928 and a #newspecies of Cosciniopsis Canu & Bassler, 1927 mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

#FossilFriday Collapsed colony of an onychocellid bryozoan in a building stone at the Chateau de Saumur in the Loire Valley, France. Thr rock is a soft Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) limestone quarried locally and known as Tuffeau.

Ammonoid in the sidewalk for #FossilFriday! 😀🐚🦴

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The colossal squid has the biggest beak of any living cephalopod. This one in the collections at NIWA is one of the biggest I've ever seen, but was taken from the stomach of a toothfish! Many mysteries left to uncover in the deep sea... #TeamColossal #BestSquid #Squidtember

#MolluscMonday Shell necklace from New Caledonia on display at the excellent small art gallery in Libourne Town Hall, SW France.

The Norman Chapel below Durham Castle constructed around 1080 is the oldest building in Durham. The patterns on the columns are natural from the local sandstone. The castle is part of the university so access is through a guided tour. #MedievalMonday

Temnospondyl were even found on the #Jurassiccoast an example can be seen Sidmouth Museum

#OnThisDay Stephen Jay Gould was born on September 10, 1941. Gould's books + Bryozoans = my love for invertebrate paleontology. Here is one of my favorite Stephen Jay Gould quotes.

Wenlock Limestone capturing the remains of a 430 million year old reef for #TrilobiteTuesday with a variety of brachiopod shells and lumps of coral alongside tails of trilobite Encrinurus

Faux fossils – IKEA’s ‘Ekbacken’ laminate worktop has the pattern of a fossiliferous limestone containing sections of scleractinian corals.

A possible archaic precursor of the octocoral structural plan from the Ordovician of Estonia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp… #PapersinPalaeontology Dryad Wiley Earth and Space Science

A wonderful party celebrating the career of Paul Smith, director of ⁦Oxford University Museum of Natural History⁩ — and what a cake!

Fun day of fieldwork to end the #Maastrichtian175 meeting. First to the ENCI quarry, original type Maastrichtian locality with lots of macrofossil finds (including this mosasaur tooth by one of the students), then a trip underground to the enigmatic Geulhemmerberg K-Pg boundary.

#FossilFriday Sponge on a stick. Toulminia bullatus from the Cretaceous Chalk of southern England.

Not only are there thousands of fossils in the Museum Collection, but there's thousands more on the outside of the building! In this Tyndall Stone wall near the Planetarium dome, you can see the shell of a nautiloid cephalopod that is about 450 million years old. #FossilFriday

Irish Carboniferous productid brachiopods in sight of Tower Bridge in London.