#eurypterid — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eurypterid, aggregated by home.social.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a cheat sheet for Megalograptus, commissioned in 2022 for a project I cannot talk about yet. The scientific consultant was Fiann Smithwick.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Megalograptus #Eurypterid #Eurypterids #SeaScorpions #FossilFriday
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there oughta be a channel called Megalodeon, and on odd numbered days it's all about Megaloptera, while on even days it's all about Megalograptus.
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#Ordovician and #Silurian friends in the #NaturkundeMuseumStuttgart . Lovely cephalopods and a very blue #eurypterid reconstruction. The #orthocones should be swimming vertically, but then again there wasn't enough space in the display for that.
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An unfortunate biological scheduling conflict occurs on the coast of a #Silurian lagoon when #Pseudoniscus #horseshoecrabs and #Eurypterus sea scorpions come to the same beach to mate and spawn. Although they are relatives who share both this behaviour and eyes which lack acuity, but have perfect night vision, the sea scorpions have no qualms about using this accidental meeting to snack on their smaller cousins.
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#NewSpecies of Giant #SeaScorpion Unearthed in New Mexico https://www.sci.news/paleontology/hibbertopterus-lamsdelli-11608.html
A new species of the #eurypterid Hibbertopterus from the #Carboniferous of #NewMexico, and a review of the #Hibbertopteridae https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2022.2032690
The ancient creature was up to 1.1 m long and probably lived in a marine-influenced #estuary fed by a river delta. Its diet likely included small #crustaceans, #ostracodes, #conchostracans, #invertebrate #larvae and #gastropod eggs.