#devonian

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

The amount of interesting research about placoderms in recent years gives me life.

They are such goobers.

Dunkleostes, Amazichthys, Alienacanthus and Entelognathus

#sciart #paleoart #paleostream #palaeoblr #devonian #sketch #animals #fish #placoderm #dunkleosteus #goobers

[amnhnyc]

It’s Trilobite Tuesday! Meet Heliopeltis, one of Morocco’s strangest Devonian trilobites. This 400-million-year-old marine arthropod had a small body, large eyes, and long spines. Scientists think its unusual physique indicates that this species floated on gentle ocean currents.

#science #museum #amnh #fossil #natural history #nature #paleontology #trilobite #trilobite tuesday #did you know #fact of the day #animal facts #ancient animals #devonian #arthropods #ocean life #ancient ocean

[styllwaters]

saw your post about accepting art requests. Can you draw the early Devonian marellid arthropod Mimetaster? i think they look cool and weird in a silly way :O

Weirdest normal girl I've ever seen

#with an equally weird name #we stan #mimetaster #my art #art #it's like if a starfish and a spider crab had a child #arthropod #devonian #illustration #how do i even tag this

[ostracartderms]

Holopterygius, a small Devonian coelacanth swims through the entrance to an underwater cave

#coelacanth #holopterygius #devonian #paleoart #palaeoart

[fruitpunchnoice]

Do you think the coelacanth suffers from survivor's guilt

Is that why he hid for so long

He didn't know how to go on without those who were left behind

#biology #fish #coelacanth #placoderms #beautiful beautiful placoderms too good for this world #devonian #prehistoryposting

[jacobvanloon]

Ocean Basin III

Watercolor and gouache on paper, 8x10”

2023

#jacob van loon #artists on tumblr #art #watercolor #gouache #ocean basin #devonian

[lil-tachyon]

What is the best fish, and why is it Dunkleosteus?

Because everything about it is perfect.

Old dunk drawings below the break:

#dunkleosteus #paleoart #placoderm #nautilus #devonian #send me an ask!

[weepingwidar]

Konstantin Korobov (Russian, 1985) - Fish (2023)

#konstantin korobov #art #painting #dunkleosteus #fish #prehistoric fish #devonian #arthrodira #placoderm #the dunk

[kiabugboy]

Assorted trilobites inspired from the style of japanese crab paintings

#trilobite #trilobites #paleo art #digital art #illustration #palaeoblr #ordovician #art #Devonian #palaeozoic #cybele #hoplitaspis #thysanopeltis #heliopeltis

[antediluvianechoes]

Fish, Konstantin Korobov

Dunkleosteus hunted in the shallows. There were fewer places for its prey to hide there. It was attentive to the tides, careful to avoid the rocks and swam only over the sands.

Snap!

Good-bye, Orodus.

Crunch!

Down goes an ammonite.

But, one morning, a tiny grey shark would not be caught. It dodged every lunge like a breeze does fingers. (Dunkleosteus did not know what a breeze was, but it would learn.)

Dunkleosteus grew as determined as a placoderm could, and—as much as a fish can decide anything—decided to catch this slippery prey above all costs. They chased through the shallows, charging and evading, reaching and retreating.

The tide began to go out. The shark winnowed over the rocks, its dorsal fin cutting the surface. Dunkleosteus surged at the shark, its back breaking the surface of the sea, its belly dragging over the stones. It nearly gutted itself on their sharp edges. The shark wormed away, but Dunkleosteus was stuck. The waters sloshed about its body. It struggled, heaved, wrenched its bulk against gravity and stone, but in vain.

The sea dragged the waters away, abandoning Dunkleosteus on the stones. Its gills pumped against the air; its eyes clouded in the wind; its fins curled over the corals. Then it was still, a victim of Devonian hubris.

#dunkleosteus #devonian #konstantin korobov

[rustleddoodles]

THE SPIRAL OF TIME How many Prehistoric critters can you name in the Spiral?

#art #illustration #rustleddoodles #artists on tumblr #paleontology #prehistoric #paleoart #cambrian #ordovician #silurian period #devonian #carboniferous #permian #triassic #Jurassic #cretaceous #miocene #paleogene #dinosaurs #mammals #synapsid #placoderm #arthropods #animalia #my stuff #chordata #ammonite

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the Devonian Hunsrück Slate #Paleostream! 

Look at all these weird little critters!

#paleoart #sciart #paleostream #palaeoblr #devonian #schinderhannes #hunsrück slate #fossils #mimetaster #placoderm #german fossil sites #deep time weirdos

[amnhnyc]

It’s Trilobite Tuesday! Pictured is a rare, complete example of a trilobite of the genus Radiaspis. This 2-in- (5.1-cm-) long specimen was found in the Jorf Devonian outcrops of eastern Morocco. It took more than 30 hours to free this spinose critter from the surrounding limestone matrix.

#trilobite #trilobite tuesday #animals #nature #natural history #science #did you know #fact of the day #cool animals #devonian #ancient animals #paleontology #fossils #fossil #naturalhistory #museum

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Archaeopteris 🤝Humans

Single Handedly Causing a Mass Extinction with Rapid Climate Change, *mostly* by accident

(the mostly is for humans, who eventually started realizing what we were doing and yet have continued doing the thing, rendering it On Purpose)

(I am assuming Archaeopteris never realized what they were doing but I guess I could be wrong)

#end devonian extinction #devonian #archaeopteris #fossil plants #humans

[ostracartderms]

Lepidocaris rhyniensis, a devonian crustacean from the rhynie chert swims through charophyte algae

#lepidocaris #crustacean #paleoart #palaeoart #algae #devonian #arthropod

[cbsorgeartworks]

I don't know what I'm doing anymore lol. Getting back into paleo stuff. Tiktaalik feelings. I plan on making this into a small edition of 2 color screen prints on paper, so follow along to get notified for that! Photoshop // ~ 8 hours

Instagram // X // Bluesky

#paleoart #paleontology #drawing #tiktaalik #screen print #devonian #digital art #photoshop art #green #evolution #evolutionary biology