For #wormwednesday, here is a beautiful collection of encrusters ... #Bryozoans #spirobid? worm tubes and a petal like #foraminifera all preserved thanks to a cool clam 😄

Pink Sapphire

My dad wants me to get into gemology and gave me a few samples to get my eye in. At present, I can confidently differentiate clams with Sapphires 😄

Blue Sapphire

Botryoidal chalcedony?

Garnets...

Hello Does anyone have access to the description of the bivalve Alaona ( Tellinidae) M. Huber, Langleit & Kreipl, 2015? Thank you 🙏

Cute little foram from Negambo, Sri Lanka #foraminifera #foramsofsrilanka

Happy #FossilFriday and #ForamFriday Check out these beautiful #fusulinids found on a bench in downtown #Columbia #Missouri #indexfossil #foraminifera #urbanpaleontology

Happy #molluscmonday Well not a mollusc but a mollusc made product. #pearls can form as a response to an intruder, a parasite a sand grain etc. I believe this is a #boroque pearl So here is one more reason to appreciate cool molluscs

Here is an interesting situation. So this noetiid clam, #Shelldonella lateralis, byssally attached living under rocks/crevices, has been drilled by a #moon snail.

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Happy #Halloween 🎃

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Happy #molluscmonday Check out this absolutely amazing #slippersnail , #Ergaea walshi #gastropoda #Calyptraeidae #molluscsofsrilanka

Here is a beautiful strombid, #Lambis from Sri Lanka #strombidae #molluscsofsrilanka

Happy #fossilfriday Here is a very cool #parsitic #platycerid gastropod. I remember my advisor used to call them poop snails 😂

Happy #molluscmonday Here is a beautiful crassatellid, #Crenocrassatella rostrata from Sri Lanka. The radials are super faint!!! #crassatellidae #molluscsofsrilanka

Encrusters on a muricid snail

Check out this terrestrial #mangrove snail #Pythia ?plicata The strong aperture teeth provides a barrier for predators that attempt to feed through aperture #Ellobiidae #gastropoda #molluscsofsrilanka

Very interesting shell malformation. Looks barnacle-ish but whatever it was, this #conesnail had some issues with it. #conidae #gastropoda #shellmalformation #molluscsofsrilanka

Happy #nationalfossilday

Happy #fossilfriday Here is a neat #brachiopod, #Leptagonia ? from the #burlington limestone of Missouri #fossilsofmissouri

Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today? dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042 Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇

Check out this beautiful specimen from the #Bellevue Formation. Got some tiny 550ish million years old #gastropods hanging out with some #brachiopods and #bryozoans

Happy #fossilfriday Checkout this cool #Mississippian ? #brachiopod which I believe is #Composita encrusted by some #bryozoa #fossilsofmissouri

#Terebralia palustris with a ton of post mortem #polydorid borings #polydora #caulostrepsis #neoichnology #molluscsofsrilanka

Happy #molluscmonday Check out this cool drill hole on a #cowrie #oichnus #cypraeidae #molluscsofsrilanka

Pretty foraminifera #foramsofsrilanka

Complete and incomplete drill holes on turritellid gastropods #oichnus #turritellidae #gastropoda #neoichnology #molluscsofsrilanka

Went through a sand sample and found a bunch of tiny spikey things...

Happy #molluscmonday Check out this beautiful shell which I believe is #Hydatina amplustre This is from the USF malacology collection

Tubercles, pore pairs, Ambulacra and interambulacra #echinoidea

Happy #molluscmonday Here is a beautiful snakehead cowry from #srilanka #Monetaria caputserpentis #cypraeidae #molluscsofsrilanka

Happy #FossilFriday Check out this beautiful #horncoral from #Kentucky that's infilled with sediment hiding a few #brachiopods n #bryozoans #ordovician #rugosa

Happy #FossilFriday Checkout these beautiful fossil #cone snails from the #Plio-Pleistocene of #Florida #conidae #fossilsofflorida

Beautiful high-spired turritellid? gastropod #shellsonstone #molluscsofsrilanka

Happy #fossilfriday from the #Miocene of Sri Lanka #molluscsofsrilanka #fossilsofsrilanka

The wonderful and amazing molluscs

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Happy #MolluscMonday Check out this beautiful mytilid #Brachidontes ? with some cool blisters #mytilidae #molluscsofsrilanka

If anyone is looking to hire an invertebrate paleontologisst/ zoologist / bivalvologist pls do let me know.

Beautiful #bryozoan colony inside a broken helmet shell #hikkaduwa #Bryozoa #molluscsofsrilanka

#Periglypta reticulata with some cool anomiids? , #bryozoans and #spirobis #molluscsofsrilanka #veneridae #Annelida

Happy #MolluscMonday Here is a beautiful and apparently delicious #Sunetta #molluscsofsrilanka #veneridae

Barnacles deserve much more love than what we give them. They are pretty awesome!

Tropic dart

Snailed!

Cassis cornuta? #cassidae #molluscsofsrilanka