#clam fossil

[jabbers-wild-world]

;; Guys! Look what I found today!! Fossils!!! My inner child who dreamed of paleontology is screaming right now!

There’s a ton of shells, and the big rounded oval spot is a clam!!

[drhoz]

#2769 - Solecurtus chattonensis

Synonyms for the genus include Adasius, Macha, Psammosolen and Solenocurtus.

Another fossil mollusc from the Late Oligocene. But the genus is still around, and living species outnumber the known extinct ones.

The best known species is probably the Rosy Razor Clam Solecurtus strigilatus, found in J-shaped burrows 50cm deep, in sandy seafloors of the Mediterranean and adjacent Atlantic, from near the shore to about 200m depth. Unusually for a bivalve, their soft body parts are too big to fit between the shells, and their main defence against predators is to burrow rapidly. They can also shed the tips of their inhalent and exhalent siphons, which pulse and twitch to distract whatever is trying to eat them.

University of Otago Geology Museum, Dunedin, Aotearoan New Zealand.

[little-paper-man]

2025 is off to a good start! I found my chert nodule with fossils in it after I lost it years ago 😭💕

It’s very special to me because it was the first and only fossil specimen I found on my property and not only that but chert with fossils in it is pretty rare!

I am SO happy! 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕🥰

[tippingthescalesexotics]

These are some of my favorite finds, fossilized buffalo bones and teeth, gastropod and my first complete bivalve. I found a bunch of shark teeth but they are all small. The ocean wasn't deep in central to North Texas.

[cookinguptales]

I mean, being totally real with you, writing some strange fiction inspired by my childhood home would probably be extremely spooky and effective.

I lived in a pretty rural area of Ohio (that is no longer rural, lmao) and a lot of things that I grew up thinking were normal, like long-abandoned cemeteries and sea life frozen in the rocks outside my house, seem stranger now to adult eyes. I think I could write something fairly ghostly about the way that sometimes you almost feel like you hear words in the cornfields' whispers.

like. we passed this schoolhouse every day on my way to the new school. I think it's a museum now, but when I was a kid it was just like. sitting there.

I feel like there's something there! lmao

sometimes I look at certain fandoms and I think, "it would be sooooo fun to make something that makes people genuinely insane"

[great-and-small]

I made a little weekend trip to Fort Drum Florida to hunt for fossilized clams and in addition to finding a few great clam specimens I finally spotted a bird I��ve been wanting to photograph for years! Looked up from my fossil hole just in time to snap two quick photos as this beautiful crested caracara soared overhead

What an absolute gift to capture this bird!

[missterious-figure]

Mer Sun.

Wobbegong + Angel shark + Brown-banded bamboo shark + Horn shark. Barely 4 ft long.

Sun lives in the same kelp forest as Moon. Those two often hang out together, as they have never found any others of their kind. Sun is an ambush predator. He buries himself in the sand and snags anything that strays to close (well, anything that isn't too big). He likes to crawl onto the beaches of near by islands and play in the warm, dry sand. And when he's done, he buries himself in it and takes a nap. He and Moon also love to go exploring on the islands. Moon is definitely the faster out of the duo. Both on land and in the water. But, he usually waits for Sun to catch up so he isn't left behind.

Funny little tidbit, Sun refuses to believe clams aren't moving rocks, no matter how many times Moon tells him. Sun has never seen the inside of a clam before. Moon doesn't know how to break them open, so he can't really prove his point. Even if Moon tries to show Sun a clam's shell, Sun just says that clams are fossil rocks (they have found fossils inside rocks on the beaches of some of the islands that they explore) and that the shell is the fossil inside. The two get into this argument a lot.

[bestanimal]

Round 2 - Arthropoda - Pycnogonida

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Pycnogonida is a class containing one order: Pantopoda, which means “all feet.” A fitting name for creatures that seem to be made entirely of legs. Commonly called “Sea Spiders”, they are not spiders, nor are they arachnids, but are actually a sister group to all other living arthropods.

Pycnogonids live in most oceans. Most are tiny, living in relatively shallow water, though some can grow to be quite large in antarctic and deep waters. Some pycnogonids are so small that each of their muscles consists of a single cell. They have a proboscis which they use to suck nutrients from soft bodied invertebrates such as cnidarians, sponges, polychaetes, and bryozoans. They can also insert their proboscis into anemones, though this rarely kills the anemone. The pycnogonid digestive tract extends into their legs. They are segmented, with the first body segment (the cephalon) consisting of the proboscis, the ocular tubercle with up to 4 simple eyes, a pair of chelifores, a pair of palps, a pair of ovigers, and the first pair of walking legs. Ovigers are used for cleaning themselves, courtship, and caring for eggs and young. Nymphonidae is the only family where both the chelifores and palps (sensory organs) remain functional. In others, these limbs are reduced or absent, instead relying on a well-developed and flexible proboscis equipped with sensory bristles. Pycnogonids are usually comprised of eight walking legs, but the family Pycnogonidae includes species with ten, and the families Colossendeidae and Nymphonidae include species with up to twelve legs! While most species have up to 4 eyes, some deep-sea species lack them entirely. Pycnogonids do not have a traditional respiratory system, instead absorbing oxygen through their legs and diffusing it throughout their body via hemolymph. Their small, long, thin hearts beat vigorously at 90 to 180 beats per minute, creating substantial blood pressure. Their nervous system consists of a brain which is connected to two ventral nerve cords, which in turn connect to specific nerves. Like other arthropods, they molt their exoskeleton as they grow.

Pycnogonid reproduction involves external fertilization after a brief courtship involving the male stroking the larger female with his ovigers and receiving the eggs if she is responsive. The couple must adjust their position until the genital pores on their legs are perfectly aligned. Only males will care for eggs and young, and in some species only the males will have ovigers while the females do not, as these limbs are used mainly for carrying and cleaning the eggs. Larvae consist only of a head with chelifores, palps and ovigers. Extra segments and legs emerge as it grows into an adult. There are at least four different types of larvae. The typical protonymphon larva is most common, is free living and gradually turns into an adult. The encysted larva spends its larval days as a parasite, finding a host in a colony of polyps, burrowing into one, turning into a cyst, and not leaving the host until it has become a juvenile. The atypical protonymphon larva lives on or within a temporary host such as a clam or polychaete worm, does not encyst or otherwise harm their host, and leaves them as an adult. Lastly, the attaching larva hatches as an embryo and immediately clings to the legs of its father, only leaving once it has two or three pairs of its own walking legs.

The pycnogonid’s cerebral appendages are unique, not found anywhere else among arthropods, except in fossils like Anomalocaris. This could mean that pycnogonids are the last surviving (highly modified) members of an ancient stem group of arthropods that lived in Cambrian oceans.

Propaganda under the cut:

They are good dads. All of them. Perfect fathers made of legs.

Their leg arrangement allows them to move forward, backward, and sideways without turning their body.

The genus Colossendeis (image 2) includes the largest pycnogonids, which live in the ocean depths. Some of them are even bioluminescent! The largest is Colossendeis colossea which can reach a leg span of 70 cm (28 in). However, their body length, including proboscis and abdomen, only reaches 7 cm (2.8 in).

About 20% of the known species of pycnogonids live in Antarctica. The cold never bothered them anyway.

One known species, Ascorhynchus corderoi, is hermaphroditic, having both ovaries and testes.

[dxsole]

not to brag but

omg omg omg omg omg—

For Christmas my work friend got me one of those buckets with sand + rocks in them for sifting and she was like "oh I hope it's not too childish! I know you like rocks" and now I get to tell her that this was an amazing experience and I imagined i was an old timey miner and I found a shit ton of rocks in there and I am king of the world

[fluentisonus]

some little things from the beach today: pieces of ammonite fossils, small clam fossils, a crinoid (star!) fossil, part of a james keiller & sons dundee marmalade ceramic jar, a piece of grapeshot (or case shot?), a mermaid's purse, and a pretty piece of red glass

[geologyin-blog]

Calcite after Clam fossils from Rucks Pit, Florida, Found in the Nashua Formation, these gems are a window into Florida’s Pleistocene past.

🎥📹The Focal Crystal

[housecow]

i like to leave my fossil bivalves lying around bc people will see them, panic about wtf a clam is doing on the counter holy fuck it’s gonna smell, and then get mad at me bc it’s literally just rock and i tricked them once again

[kaijuno]

Calcite Crystals in a Fossilized Clam

[transgenderer]

Clam shrimp are a group of bivalved branchiopodcrustaceans that resemble the unrelated bivalved molluscs.[1] They are extant and also known from the fossil record, from at least the Devonian period and perhaps before.[2]

hey. whats going on with crustaceans

[ode-to-arecibo]

Tripods, A less important species to the plot, but I just love them too much to put them on the sidelines. They end up being moderately relevant to politics but very uncommon.

Tripods are generally a pretty weird species on a pretty weird planet. Some quirk of their biology meant that evolving bilateral symmetry was much harder than on earth, and everything larger than a cricket is rotationally symmetric.

Their weird psychological quirk is a hyper awareness of long term threats. Tripods are the only species as of 2200 that made it to tachyon beams without a climate crisis. (Excluding species like sapsippers who invented genetic engineering before metal and didn't really have the fossil fuel problem in the first place). Tripods Did the climate change math in their equivalent of 1896 and then within a couple years went "oh no that's going to be a problem" and started work on making it not a problem. They have this psychology because their ancestors had to manage the herds. While humans were choosing the perfect rock to crack open clams, tripods were doing the math on how many wheelbeasts there would be next season and how many babies they should have to make sure they don't overhunt. Domesticating a couple species of wheelbeast was their big step towards population explosion. This also means that they're often the first to realize when the drake dominated empire (a species with a whole gender dedicated to moving fast and breaking things) has fucked something up and not realized it. Being too big to comfortably live in space and too anxious to trust the Empire, they tend to stay out of politics until someone fucks up.

Because of this same anxiety, they assumed the fermi paradox is solved by the dark forest theory, or at least, they didn't want to risk it. By 2300 it turns out that they're almost correct, sort of. Though the real solution to the fermi paradox in timelike empire is mostly just due to the inverse square law. It looks like everyone is hiding and not sending any messages because you can't hear them if they aren't sent to you. Tachyon beams generally have to aim for a solar system. Tripods build a tachyon detector, see that no one is sending any messages, learn how to build a tachyon emitter but choose not to and then just go and invent wormholes and alcubierre drives on their own. An Empire ship stumbles upon them around the time humans get their tachyon beam up and there's some tension before tripods realize the empire is friendly, albeit a bit imperialist and join the empire, though they still mostly stick to the homeworld and the couple of planets they colonized before contact.

They have two sexes and three genders. About 10% of adult males are bulls and 90% are subordinate males or eunuchs depending on the culture. Subordinate males don't reproduce and are often stuck with low wage jobs or fleeing to space where the Empire doesn't care what gender their pilots are. Male type is mostly determined at puberty, but a bull that doesn't eat enough or keeps losing duels will stop producing tusks and get duller to become a weirdly large subordinate male, while a sufficiently successful subordinate male or one that doesn't live near any bulls will have a late puberty, start growing tusks and pigment, but will take a long time to get to standard bull size. A lot of tripod pilots have done this second puberty if they work on a ship where they're the only tripod. In most tripod democracies, only females vote and only bull males ever get elected to head of state. Females can run for office but the general notion is that bull males are bulls because they're competent, which is true as long as by competent you mean good at fighting. This is all around an oppressive and not great system of gender but tripods don't like change and the biological component has been baked into them for millions of years.

They have six tentacles or trunks, the big three being used for lifting heavy objects, tearing down trees and carrying shopping bags, and the small three for delicate work. The small tentacles evolved to deliver sperm.

[honey-minded-hivemind]

The lost episodes being more slow paced, filler like episodes with that have a strong vibe that something (or someone) is missing.

One episode is the younger members cleaning a bedroom in the mansion as punishment as it hasnt been used in a while and has a thich layer of dust and them getting distracted with all the cool and potentially dangerous stuff in there. Apparently, it's that mystery character's room, but, again, they never actually show up. Just have somber scene as everyone contemplates their friends, and someone mentions how much older they must be now. Reader think this character has good taste since the room looks very close to their own style ( and looks very familiar)

Another is that Jubilee (or another younger character) is hiding something in her closet, which is close to bursting. It's all these clothes given as gifts from the mystery character. But she's outgrown them and feels like awful that she's losing her connection to them, but she needs to get rid of them as she doesn'thave any space. It has a sweet message about letting go and always having someone in your heart, but Reader kinda wishes they got to see episodes of Jubilee wearing the clothes, they think they would have look good on her.

One episode is Xavier( or another adult) working himself near to death trying to find the character, and everyone worrying. It ends with a heavy hint of them being found as the adult stares into the screen with heavy relief. Reader swears their eyes dig into their soul.

Yes! I like it! I'll add a little to each one, if that's okay! (anyone who wants to add an idea for a filer episode, feel free to share your idea!) ( @thewickedweiner and @vivid-bun and @weebwholovesuchihasasuke!)

Episode One?: The younger characters stumble into a room that looks like it hasn't seen the light in years. A few posters line the walls, the bed has thick comforter and blankets in grays and brown and reds, there's old drawing books and classic literature on a nightstand, even a box of trinkets and a few clothes and items hidden in a closet. A thick layer of dust covers everything, causing several characters to sneeze. Some items are pretty cool, for example: fossilized clam shells, tumbled rocks, old books, animal feathers, shiny trinkets. And some are probably not as safe, such as: a knife they found, a notebook full of... it doesn't show... and a box full of old items that Logan and Morph are quick to tuck somewhere else. The characters mention some good old times, fighting alongside this mystery character, watching them grow, having fun outside of saving the day, old habits they had... They sound really cool to Reader, who notes their room is comforting, in shades that make them feel relaxed and at home, with items they'd find fascinating... Yet the episode is somber, with no one knowing where this character is or what happened to them, let alone if they're still alive... But it ens with the team promising to find them, and one or another putting things to rest, no matter what they find... (It leaves a sad feeling inside Reader, as well as a discomfort and feeling of dread...)

• Episode 12??: Jubilee is trying to hold onto the memory of the missing character or a friend of her's, but she can't hold onto the past forever. It's a needed message, one to help deal with grief amf moving on in a healthy way (or so Reader thinks). Jubilee has old clothes she can no longer wear, but were gifts from her friend, so she doesn't want to give them up. But she's reminded that her friend is still with her, and would want her to be okay, and that it's okay to move on, because they'll always be a part of you, always have a place in your heart. It's touching, making you smile a little, epically when the others comfort her...

• Episode 23???: What seems to be a final episode of the lost seasons (at least the first lost season, anyways) where Xavier and a few if the others have been working nonstop, trying to find this missing character, who's been mentioned the last season or two amd throughout the entire series, and everyone is afraid to hold onto that hope, wanting to either move on or run themselves ragged trying to find any trace of them... You watch with bated breath as the episode plays out, as various characters, even some villains or side characters, get involved... The team keeps trying to assure Xavier and each other they've done the best they can, that there's only so much they can do, that no one blame them for what happened- Amd then the last few minutes of the epsidoe depict a heavy hint that the characters found a clue, or that their friend was alive... and they were staring out at the screen again, as though they could see through it, too...

(I imagine a few episodes explore dealing with grief, guilt, and heavier emotions, while others show different places they've gone before with their missing friend, even a few where the villains or side characters get a day-in-the-limelight episode) (And some of what was in the box that Logan and Morph took, what was in the notebook, and a few hints as to what the missing character might have been like or little nicknames for them) (and Kevin is no help, playing the tapes whenever they're at the ReelTheatre, and jokes about not spoiling anything too early for Reader) (They walk Reader home one night, and are so glad to spend extra time with them!) (Bonus: some of the characters visit Reader or enter their home when they're asleep)