Dr. Rod Taylor
@FossilRod
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Science interpreter, palaeontologist, nature lover and music collector.
St. John's
Joined July 2015
This #TrilobiteTuesday, a nicely preserved Olenellus sp. from the Lower Cambrian of western Newfoundland; it's approx. 3 cm long. Image: ShaleAndStoneCo.
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This #TrilobiteTuesday, a fabulous plate of #Silurian #trilobites from Joachim Barrande's "Système silurien du centre de la Bohême" (published between 1852 and 1881).
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@FossilLocator @NLGEOCENTRE @MemorialUSci A quick snap of the back side. The belemnites are much smaller, possibly different taxa; there are some shelly fragments here I haven’t gotten my head around yet. 🤔
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@FossilLocator @NLGEOCENTRE @MemorialUSci I really wish I had some info on where (and when!) it came from, but there’s no documentation on its origins in our database - it precedes my working here by several years. 🤷♂️
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This #FossilFriday, more material from my PhD - almost a fossil itself by now! 😉 This beautifully preserved crayfish (Palaeocambarus) and fish (Lycoptera) pair were collected from the Early #Cretaceous Jehol biota of Liaoning Province, northeast #China.
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@MarioGBartual @munpaleobiology @MemorialUSci @NLGEOCENTRE @ROMtoronto They carried them under the carapace, likely attached to the inside of the shell or to the thorax.
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@goroshko_sergey @ManuelsRiver @MemorialUSci @munpaleobiology @NLGEOCENTRE @NLtweets Hi Sergey. I don't think this is a fossil, I'm afraid. It looks to me like a sedimentary rock with multiple layers, and some layers have work away more than others. The topmost layer looks like a coarser grain than those below, so looks a bit like skin.
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@jason_loxton @munpaleobiology @MemorialUSci @NLGEOCENTRE @WhereLifeGotBig @DiscoveryGEONL @NLtweets @Nature_NL @CoakerFoundn Not in a true sense. We think they're all branches of the same organism, rather than several organisms living together in one larger structure. They look like separate but connected rangeomorph fronds, but are likely all parts of one organism.
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