#coelocanth

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the Fishing #paleostream

Eurypterus in a lobster cage,

Axelrodichthys getting noodled,

Xiphiorhynchus, but Thalassocnus is too curious...

and a record breaking Lycoptera, oh and Liaoningosaurus was in the water too :P

[anti-workshop]

Our sister cooperative got stiffed on a huge painting job by a shitty client, so it's fundraising time! We want to get their workers paid while our local lefty lawyer pursues the full payment. Here's a shirt I wanted to make for awhile! Help us out and talk about your gender right there on your torso! (if y'all want a different color shirt option lemme know and I'll make it happen)

https://shky.ink/product/gender/

Reblog please to help us boost this out of our small corner of tumblr!

[asomeonenamedjey]

Babe wake up its time to consume excessive amounts of fish content

[radstarsaur]

Messing around with some ancient fishfolk designs after deciding on playing a Locathah for my new DnD game. Bothriolepsis, Coelocanth, Dunkleosteus, and Stethacanthus!

[majingojira]

Prehistoric Fish

Having gone through ... 1,668 pieces of Paleo media (movies, TV, Documentaries, Video Games, Youtube Productions), I've noticed quite a few patterns (naturally). Stock Footage sources (Planet of Dinosaur, Phil Tippet's Animation from Dinosaur! (1985), The Lost World (1925), One Million B.C., etc.), species appearance regularity (everyone uses Tyrannosaurus, but you'd be surprised how common Brontosaurus and Diplodocus are), etc.

But I noticed one pattern that got to be annoying.

Once vertebrates go on land, Fish generally aren't talked about. Like, they stop existing as far as the 'narrative' goes on. If post-Devonian fish are talked about, it's usually one of these:

The Western-Interior Seaway/"Hell's Aquarium"

Megalodon

Carboniferous Shark Diversity

And that's it.

Sure, we get stuff on Whales and Sea-Going reptiles, but nothing more than that and the generic "Ammonite" being mentioned.

I can't help but feel that there's more interesting stuff on the oceans elsewhere.

I know of a few.

Like the Trematosaurids, Gavial-like amphibians that swam in the Triassic oceans. Oncorhynchus rastrosus, the Saber-Toothed Salmon the size of a large Tuna. Inoceramus and Cladoceramus, giant cretaceous reef-building clams that could get 1 meter in length. And Foreyia, the Triassic Coelacanth parrot-fish mimic.

And those are just the organisms I can recall offhand. I feel there's a lot of untapped potential with aquatic animals in media beyond "Generic Herring-like Fish to be eaten by more charismatic fauna."

It's like how Hadrosaurs are used in documentaries only much worse.

So, Paleo-Nerds of Tumblr, what are your favorite unsung aquatic organisms?

[fuckyeahcoelacanths]

Coelacanth Low Polygonal 3D model digital figure STL file for 3D print machine by 3DModellingArt

[wikdsushi-v2]

Just a happy guy.

[bigfatbreak]

Omg you’re so right about arapaima tell us more pls

big big big big elegant turbo beasts of the rivers

big HUGE love em. love their narrow heads that taper into a massive solid tail. love that love them. love their massive armored scales that are such a pretty silver to red transition. best designs in fish are either weird head, one big long body, or a majillion fins, and this guy is in the one big long body category. i should make a blasphemous of one for my own satisfaction

[our-inspire-verse]

Something about being plural makes any moment where my existence is validated, really intense? If that makes any sense.

For example, being acknowledged individually between switches. Or, for our headmate Mitten, she exists more in headspace or around the body rather than being a fronter. She needs extra acknowledgement to feel real and seen and cared for. Or even little things like seeing all my followers reblog my lil system posts with their tags. Seeing mutuals or familiar urls/PFPs.

Very nice to engage and interact casually/warmly with others who understand/relate to me. I love you (yes, you, even if i don't know you.)

[fleshmade]

fleshmade: an independent and selective roleplay blog for an original horror-focused character, written by toast. verses for various fandoms are also available. 18+ followers only, please. established september 2023.

a study in: how we are all made of meat, the revulsion of the body, the unknown, cosmic apathy, and being changed by love.

[ashclouds366]

click for better quality and all that

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the #paleostream Petrodactyle, Alligator munensis, Rieppelia and Minimocursor.

[fanatsrit]

hey i know that animal

-me recognising it from ajimal crossing (critterpedia)

[the-best-bagel]

I think we should define fish as just actinopterygii and all the other current "fish" as not fish

[ihaveanorangeforyou]

List of animals Tumblr keeps on rotate at all times:

Rats

Raccoons

Possums

Cats

Coelacanths???

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

glub glub