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#MolluscMonday Table top at Petworth NT made of gastropod-rich limestone, probably the so-called Petworth Marble, a variety of Early Cretaceous Wealden Marble.
#MolluscMonday From my photographic archives, scallop shells decorating a wall in Hokkaido, Japan
#FossilFriday Branneroceras, a Late Carboniferous goniatite. Part of a large block of limestone packed with this ammonoid on display at the NIGPAS museum in Nanjing.
Fresh from the SEM, a 'starburst' cyclostome bryozoan from the South Atlantic collected by Blanca Figuerola
Lest you think that all bryozoans have human-like faces, here's one that resembles a flower, the appropriately named Pasythea tulipifera
#FossilFriday Carefully prepared out of its soft Chalk matrix, this Late Cretaceous cyclostome bryozoan forms part of the A.W. Rowe Collection purchased in 1926
#molluscmonday a wall of scallop shells photographed at Kuromatsunai, Japan
#FolkloreThursday Fossil of a cystoid, an extinct animal related to starfish, known in folklore as crystal apples
#FolkloreThursday Tisbury Starstone: polished fossil coral from the Jurassic of Wiltshire