#sponge

[clnclm]

[vintagehomecollection]

Osborne & Little The Decorated Room, 1988

[fullcravings]

How To Make A Chocolate Cloud Cake

[dialoogid]

Sponge - 覚醒時における映像の生産と肉体の関係について [Relation Between a Production of Images and the Flesh in a State of Consciousness] (1993)

[some-fool-fp]

I've been playing Neopets recently!

I managed to get the paint brushes to make a flat fella family hee hee

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Here the result of the last formation stream of 2024. Over the course of 6 hours we explored the many organisms that inhabited the reefs of the Whitewater formation.

This formation preserves a rich benthic community with many sessile animals. Towering above all were the giant columnar sponges of the genus Aulacers, up to 3 m tall Ordovician skyscrapers. Between them hovered cephalopods and swam the eurypterid Megalopraptus.

Most organisms from here wer small, just a few centimeters, which is why Discord member JW made a second size chart just to bring across how the largest animals, Megalograptus and the giant trilobite Isotelus, compared to the rest.

I think something that is often overlooked in discussions about these formations is the animals we don't have. There are no crustaceans here, no jellyfish, although they probably still made up a significant part of the biomass. These animals are simply not preserved which makes our image of the Whitewater formation incomplete and biased towards the hard shelled organism. As a paleoartist one is constantly reminded of such gaps, we have to decide how much we want to speculate or borrow from other localities, or if we want to stick strictly to the fossil record.

In these formation pieces I usually do the latter but I'm painfully aware how much I miss in each piece.

Btw. since this is the last formation piece of the year I would love to hear which one was your favorite?!

[corromon]

After years of being asked what she is I have reached a realisation.

[dinoserious]

invertober day 19, yellow tube sponge! absolute classic animal imo

[sprinkles-stims]

spongebob sponge !

[herpsandbirds]

Stove Pipe Sponge (Aplysina archeri), family Aplysinidae, Bahamas

photograph by Julia Sumerling

[chimeride]

[clnclm]

[steven-myself]

"54" - Adel Bouteldja photographed by Baldovino Barani for FACTORY Fanzine

[kiabugboy]

Late Ordovician, Laurentian warm water reef

From top left: archaeocrinus, diestoceras(Oncocerid), isorthoceras, armenoceras

Middle left: tcherskidium and proconchidium brachiopod

From bottom left: aulacerid 2 meter tall sponges, Deloprosopus, phacelloid corals

Top right: uncolored sketch of stromatoporoid and aulacerid sponge reef

[dialoogid]

Sponge - 羽根と眼球または混血のダンス [Feathers and Eyeballs or a Dance of Mixed Blood] (1996)