#carboniferous — Public Fediverse posts

Scientists recreate the head of this ancient 9-foot-long bug
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-scientists-biggest-bug-earth.html

Head anatomy and #phylogenomics show the #Carboniferous giant #Arthropleura belonged to a millipede-centipede group https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp6362

"The giant bug's topper was a round bulb with two short bell-shaped antennae, two protruding eyes like a crab, and a rather small mouth adapted for grinding leaves and bark"

Wonderfully detailed Carboniferous Crinoid fossil segments exposed along the shoreline, County Donegal, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com Walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #fossils #irishfossils #Crinoids #Carboniferous #Ireland

Less than a week before #Christmas , so out #fossil hunting during the only warm day of the week.
Location: #MineralWellsFossilPark #MineralWells ( #PaloPinto county) Texas.
#Pennsylvanian ( #Carboniferous ) reef deposit.

Lots of #crinoids and #brachiopods as usual. Quite a few #sponges and large stick #bryozoa (alas no veil bryozoa this time), and 3 distinct species of #gastropod.