NHM_Bryozoa
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For bryophiles, young and old, fossil and recent, marine and freshwater. All views expressed are our own.
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#MolluscMonday Crazy coiling in the Cretaceous ammonite Nipponites bacchus. Photographed in 2006 at the fossil museum in Mikasa, northern Japan.
A juvenile cup and saucer shell from the Calyptraeidae family (Crucibulum scutellatum, W. Wood 1828), the strong ribs contrasts well the protoconch. Collected at SMR Aggregates, Sarasota, Florida β #Pliocene , Tamiami Formation, Pinecrest Beds. #FossilFriday #FloridaFossils
Filter-feeding on muddy substrates: the wide gape of Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa⦠MorphoSource Dryad Wiley Earth and Space Science
Happy #FossilFriday
Here's a fenestrate #bryozoan colony from the #Burlington Limestone of #Missouri
#FontsOnFriday Baptismal font in All Saints Church, Banstead, Surrey. Said to be early 14th century and made of Caen stone.
#FossilFriday Field photograph taken in 2017 of a fine Pleistocene colony of the bryozoan Steginoporella magnifica. Nukumaru Limestone, New Zealand.
John Phillips was a giant of 19thC geology. He was a scientific Dick Whittington, from orphaned apprentice to Oxford Professor, with no university education inbetween. One of his legacies is the magnificent interior Oxford University Museum of Natural History with instructive geology oum.ox.ac.uk/learning/pdfs/β¦
Members of the #NHMUnlocked team were at NatSCA Conference last week.
Curator Bryo_Abbie did a lightning talk about the NHM_Bryozoa Collection and the different ways we were preparing it to move to TVSP
#MolluscMonday From the archives, a wall in Hokkaido, Japan, ornamented with pectinid shells. Some of the shells have dropped-off leaving internal moulds of concrete.
A lovely death assemblage of Arnioceras ammonites from the Redcar Mudstone Formation, Lower #Jurassic , Robin Hoods Bay.
Iβve been fossil-pottering there for 35 years & never found anything this fabulous!
On display at the Rotunda Museum #fossilfriday Scarborough Museums and Galleries #geology
#FossilFriday Branches of a ramose Oligocene cyclostome bryozoan notable for their bored interiors, leaving the trace fossil Sanctum that was first described in Ordovician bryozoans. Photographed in a wall at a Puynormand vineyard this week.
