#cambrian

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "Eonature" shows an adult Fuxianhuia caring for several babies.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fuxianhuia #Cambrian #WildlifeArt

#paleontology #fossils #Cambrian #Helmetia #HelmetiaExpansa #arthropods

An article published in the "Journal of Systematic PalaeontologyJournal of Systematic Palaeontology" reports a study of Helmetia expansa, a species of arthropod that lived about 505 million years ago, in the Middle Cambrian period. Sarah Losso, Jean-Bernard Caron, and Javier Ortega-Hernández examined the fossils discovered over the years.

https://english.netmassimo.com/2025/04/09/an-accurate-description-of-helmetia-expansa-fossils-over-a-century-after-their-discovery/

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Reconstructing Wufengella for Guo et et al (2022). From the Early Cambrian, Wufengella is evolutionarily important because it is close to the ancestry of Brachiozoa, Bryozoa, and Phoronida. It is from the Chiungchussu Formation, China.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Cambrian #Wufengella

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2022 I created the first reconstruction of Wufengella, for Guo et et al. From the Early Cambrian, Wufengella is evolutionarily important because it is close to the ancestry of Brachiozoa, Bryozoa, and Phoronida. It is from the Chiungchussu Formation, China.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Cambrian #Wufengella

Apparently, some 530 million years ago (give or take) in the #Cambrian age, after about 2.5 billion years of rather plodding #evolution, bi-lateral symmetry appeared in animals (after some dabbling in tri-lateral and penta-lateral symmetry) and when brains showed up they were bi-lateral. #Vertebrate, but still #jawless, fishes were swimming after each other for lunch. #Eyes, which had already existed for a long while, started showing up in pairs, at the head end of the fishes. (1/3)

El Lochmanolenellus trapezoidalis fue un trilobite, encontrado en Nevada, Estados Unidos y en las montañas Cassiar, Canadá, que vivió en el Cámbrico (524-512 MdA). Se distingue por su ancho cefalón con prominentes espinas genales, pero ni de lejos las más grandes. Orm #trilobite #cambrico #cambrian

El Vetulicola rectangulata era un pequeño deuteróstomo del Cámbrico temprano compuesto por un cuerpo rectangular cubierto con placas, que dejaban un hueco para una pequeña boca plana, con una cola en la zona posterior que usaba para nadar.PaleoNeolitic #cambrico #cambrian

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Last post from 2020. Here's "The Early Worm Catches the . . . ", showing a monster Ottoia ambushing some Cambrian critters. This fossil is discussed in Locked in Time, by Dr Dean Lomax.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ottoia #Cambrian #Trilobite

This will be a challenge to the fediverse connecting abilities: I need to make a costume of a #trilobite and of #Anomalocaris. I am looking for any help: someone has made one already and is happy to share the details, a costume designed willing to take up the challenge, a handwork hobbyist with a knack for sewing/cardboard magic who always want to launch their skills onto a bigger stage. We are making a #science show for kids as part of my #ERC project MindTheGap and we will be explaining #evolution using #fossils. #Cambrian fossils If you have any hints, contacts, old costumes, please get in touch. We are located in NL so we probably cannot commission costumes from overseas (too much risk of delay due to customs). #Outreach #ScienceCommunication #paleontology

El Isoxys fue un artrópodo depredador del Cámbrico (520-495 MdA) con un caparazón bivalvo en forma de empanadilla o taco. Con las patas que sobresalen habría atrapado a sus presas. Holly Sullivan #cambrico #cambrian

Thinking about fossil marine invertebrates that Keilan-Jaworowska studied at the beginning of her career, made me think of this pattern made from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 million to 485.4 million years ago).

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16990670-cambrian-sea-by-minouette

#linocut #printmaking #pattern #surfaceDesign #paleontology #sciArt #Cambrian #BurgessShale #trilobite #wiwaxia #Opabinia #InverteFest #invertebrate #fossils #MastoArt

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The draft images and some photos of my finished Timorbestia (stem-group chaetognath/arrow worms) model. I was commissioned in 2020 to reconstruct the 520 million year old, Cambrian fossil.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Cambrian #FossilFriday

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

And it's FossilFriday! So here's a 520 million year old fossil of Timorbestia, a stem-group chaetognath (arrow worms). In 2020 I was commissioned to build a life-size model of this beauty.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Cambrian #FossilFriday

You know what? Sod this #JurassicPark rubbish.

I want a #Cambrian Park, please. Bring back the #BurgessShale #hallucigenia !

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist. Here's my "Eonurture" painting, which depicts an adult Fuxianhuia caring for several babies (Cambrian arthropod parental care!).

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-in-time/9780231197281

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Cambrian

En el Cámbrico, hace 500 millones de años, en los mares vivía el Balhuticaris voltae, un enorme artrópodo de 24,5 cm y 110 segmentos consecutivos con patas.Alejandro Izquierdo Lopez #cambrico #cambrian

@futurebird
interview with the person who showed some anomalocaridids were filter-feeders:
https://www.palaeocast.com/episode-31-anomalocaridids/

interview with the person who found the specimen that preserved the big goofy eyes:
https://www.palaeocast.com/episode-36-emu-bay-shale/

good grief, both those interviews are over 10 years old!
#arthopods
#anomalocaridids
#Cambrian
#Ordovician
#fossils

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my 2019 painting of a new species of polychaete (bristle worm) from the early Cambrian Canglangpu formation (China), called Dannychaeta tucolus. This was commissioned for Chen et al 2020.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Cambrian

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Three of the ZBrush sculpts I created for my 2019 "Cambrian Epic" painting, featuring a variety of wonderful creatures from the Sirius Passet lagerstätte, Greenland. This was commissioned for Park et al 2024.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Cambrian

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Draft 3 & 4 for my 2019 "Cambrian Epic" painting, featuring a variety of wonderful creatures from the Sirius Passet lagerstätte, Greenland. This was commissioned for Park et al 2024.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Cambrian