by The Bookologist
Here at the magazine we’ve been looking at a lot of paleontology lately, and we thought we’d share a few of the downright gorgeous or just plain cool fossils that sneaked onto our computers as we prepared this month’s issue. After all, who’s not a pushover for a pretty rock?
Photo Credits
Ichthyosaur and Trilobite: Natural History Museum of Great Britain
Argentinian “Terror Bird”: M. Taglioretti and F. Scaglia.
Chinese Fuxianhuia protensa with brain: Xiaoya Ma
Australian stromatolite: Shanan Peters/University of Wisconsin-Madison
Canadian Arctic Fishapod: Ted Daeschler
Antarctic Sea Lillies: Shanan Peters/University of Wisconsin-Madison
South African hand bones: L.Berger — University of Witwatersrand
All other photos courtesy Wikimedia commons.
Trilobites! They are the humble heroes of my new middle grade novel, “Moonpenny Island”.
Regarding:
“Antarctic Sea Lillies: Shanan Peters/University of Wisconsin-Madison”
is actually Periglyptocrinus, Bobcaygeon-Formation, Brechin, Canada;
recently described/renamed in:
Cole, Ausich, Wright & Koniecki (2018): An echinoderm Lagerstätte from the Upper Ordovician (Katian), Ontario: taxonomic re-evaluation and description of new dicyclic camerate crinoids
see more at
http://www.fossilcrinoids.com/ordovician.html
Thanks, Chris. Good sites!