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#MolluscMonday Nautilus big and small, Eocene and modern, photographed during 2007 at the Priabona museum in northern Italy.

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#FossilFriday Remarkable preservation of the brachidium which supported the lophophore in the brachiopod Spiriferina from the French Jurassic.

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#FontsOnFriday Hewn from granite, the baptismal font in the Abbey church at Mont Saint Michel in western Normandy.

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Day 29 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Perhaps one fossil but many Johns Oliver (H. sapiens)? Fossil is the bryozoan Bathosella, NHMUK BZ7736 #savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth #Mr.MoreThanOneJohnOliver

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#MolluscMonday Large Campanian rudist bivalve from Charente (France) resting on Spanish Basque marble full of sections of smaller Albian rudists.

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We have a logo for the Holochange project! Holochange explores how ocean warming & acidification affect invertebrate holobionts, especially bryozoans, via experiments in CO₂ vents & aquaria. Do you like the new design? Funded by @ageinves.bsky.social #consolidacióninvestigadora #ICMCSIC

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Stictoporellina sp. cf. S. cribrosa - a cryptostomate #bryozoan. The delicate, lacy, mineralized colony (zoarium) stood erect on seafloor; water flowed thru openings (fenestrules) to facilitate filter feeding. U. #Ordovician (~450 MYA) Verulam Fm, Ramara Tp, Ontario 🇨🇦 Scale bar = 50 mm #FossilFriday

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In 2008, Richard Owen's statue was famously removed from @nhm-london.bsky.social's central stairs to make way for his enemy, Darwin. What's odder is that Owen's statue had apparently been put there in 1927 (swapping out Darwin's statue, there since 1885) at the absolute nadir of Owen's reputation.

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#FossilFriday Jabba the Zooid. This teratological zooid in a colony of the bryozoan Tornipora reminds me of Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars. Cretaceous, Campanian, Archiac, SW France.

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Come postdoc in Oslo! 3 years. You design the project! Get in touch with me or others at our museum! Deadline 23 june www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... share and repost !

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#MolluscMonday Rudist bivalves in the paving stones of central Bordeaux.

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Heading out to a park this #FossilFriday? Be sure to visit Horton Park in Bradford, where you can see one of three huge fossil trees! These Carboniferous giants were excavated from Clayton in the late 19th Century and placed on public display to "inspire future generations of geologists".

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#FossilFriday Cluster of shells of the brachiopod Platystrophia regularis from the Late Ordovician (Hirnantian) of Anticosti Island, Canada.

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Fun architectural detail at the Danish Natural History Museum, Copenhagen: a lamp modeled after stalked crinoids (sea lilies). Want want want. 1/2

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THIS OH MY GOD I want to get a megaphone and yell this from the rooftops

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oh nice. A video featuring a LIVING SCAPHOPOD! How often do you see that? #molluscmonday #antarctica youtu.be/irQpAUW0sJc?...

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#MolluscMonday Bivalve Pholadoyma from the Early Eocene London Clay showing preservation of the nacreous aragonite shell.

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#FontsOnFriday Dating back to about 1470, the stone font at St Mary’s Church, Hitchin features the twelve apostles, all of them quite literally ‘defaced’ in the 1640s by Oliver Cromwell’s puritan troops.

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#FossilFriday Crinoid Traumatocrinus from the Late Triassic of SW China.

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#MolluscMonday Bivalve and gastropod shells carved into a wooden pew at St Mary’s Church, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Spot the sinistral snail.

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#FossilFriday One of the numerous terracotta tiles in the Natural History Museum decorated with a fossil, in this case a eurypterid. Cast from a mould for Alfred Waterhouse’s original building opened in 1881.

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#SpongeThursday is brought to today you by Raphidonema faringdonense - a rather common #fossil #sponge from the Early #Cretaceous (~115 MYA) Faringdon Sponge Gravel Mbr, Oxfordshire, UK. As in other members of Calcarea, the soft tissues were supported by a rigid box-work of calcitic spicules.

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#MolluscMonday Scallop shell emblem outside the Sainte-Ferme Abbey in Gironde, SW France, marking the abbey as a place on the Camino Way, the route of pilgrimage leading to Santiago de Compostela.

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#FossilFriday Lower Carboniferous brachiopods sectioned in various orientations in the paving stones of Carlow Blue Limestone from Ireland on London’s Southbank west of Tower Bridge.

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The #EarthSciences are under threat at Australian universities. As Rhodi Davies and Dorrit Jacob from ANU highlight: "climate resilience, sound environmental policy and energy security all begin with understanding the planet we live on" www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/eart...

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#MolluscMonday Rudist bivalves are conspicuous in the polished limestone – probably mid-Cretaceous ‘Red Ereño’ from Bilbao – of this washstand top which has been mounted on the base of an old sewing machine. Available for just 80 Euros from a brocante in SW France.

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What better bryozoan for Good #FossilFriday than Goodonia cookae. This cheilostome from the Pliocene Coralline Crag of Suffolk was named in honour of NHM bryozoologist Pat Cook after her emigration to Australia. “Good on ya Cookie”.

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#MolluscMonday Dronne river gravels in SW France contain eroded shells of the Upper Cretaceous bivalve Pycnodonte. Many are coarsely silicified with beekite rings, as in this example.

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#FossilFriday Swop retail therapy for fossil therapy at the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent where the floor tiles consist of Jurassic Treuchtlingen Formation from Bavaria. Sponges like this are particularly common.

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So excited! My copy of Paul D. Taylor's "Fossils: An Essential Guide" just arrived! Can't wait to dive in it! @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social

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#MolluscMonday Ammonite set into the stone wall of a house in La Roche-Chalais, Dordogne, France. The closest Mesozoic rocks are of Late Cretaceous age but to my untrained eyes this looks Jurassic and is possibly a perisphinctid. Comments welcomed.

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Happy #FossilFriday! Unicorn 🦄 skeletons? Fossil forgery? Tune in today for an April Fool's Day special! Join free via Zoom at 9 a.m. MST, 11 a.m. EST. museumoftherockies.org/calendar/vir... The Magdeburg Unicorn, on display at the Natural History Museum Madgeburg (image courtesy Sven Sachs)

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A little late this #FossilFriday, but I promised to post Mississippian aged bryozoans last week and I'm a woman of my word! Had two doc apts today just far enough apart to blow the whole day. Hope the photos do these magnificent weirdos justice. Description in alt text. #Paleosky

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#FossilFriday From an Oligocene building stone in Beychac-et-Caillau (Gironde), a section of a small sand dollar, upside down in the image with the finger as a scale but rotated in the higher magnification image so that the aboral surface is uppermost as in life. Note the internal pillars.

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A closer look at some bits of Honeycomb Reef. Formed by Honeycomb Reef worms (Sabellaria alveolata). County Clare, Ireland.

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Pocket full of bryozoans in a building stone of Oligocene limestone photographed yesterday at La Reole in SW France.

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