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

Lol

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

Very late fossil Friday... Happy #fossilfriday Here is a beautiful #horncoral from the #Burlington Limestone, Missouri

#Muricid drill hole ( #Oichnus simplex) right between two radials of a #Cardites bicolor #molluscsofsrilanka

Happy #FossilFriday Here are some beautiful fossil #slippershells from #Florida #calyptraeidae

Happy #molluscmonday #cannibalism Moon snails drilled and eaten by other moon snails #naticidae #oichnus

We had a blast talking about bivalves and we were able to establish without a doubt that clams are the best! #marinebiologyandfisheries #zoology #universityofperadeniya #marinebiologyandfisheries

Happy #molluscmonday Here are some beautiful shell #ornamentation that make #bivalves extra special. #molluscsofsrilanka #bivalvia

New friend

Happy #molluscmonday I believe this is Barbatia virescens? #arcidae #barbatia #molluscsofsrilanka

Happy belated world frog day! Ranjeev frogging in 2008 Nannophrys marmorata Adenomus kelaartii

Happy #fossilfriday Here is a beautiful fossil slipper shell from Florida #Calyptraeidae #fossilsofflorida #pleistocene ?

Opal!!

Happy late #MolluscMonday Here is a beautiful banded tulip #Cinctura hunteria from Florida (I think) #fasciolariidae

Happy #molluscmonday Here is a beautiful bittersweet clam with a complete moon snail drilling #glycymeris #oichnus paraboloides #molluscsofsrilanka

Happy #FossilFriday Check out this beautifully sectioned fossil gastropod from the #Miocene of Sri Lanka. #fossilsofsrilanka

Team Clams!

Happy #molluscmonday Here is another shell I would not recommend stepping on 🤣 #Bufonaria echinata #molluscsofsrilanka

So many brachiopods in this slab!

Happy #FossilFriday Check out this beautiful trace fossil, #Diplocraterion from the Kope Formation #ichnology

Happy #molluscmonday Here are some beautiful #chitons from Puttalum, Sri Lanka #molluscsofsrilanka

Happy #FossilFriday Check out these neat #bryozoans on a #brachiopod and on what looks like a fragment of an Isotelus maximus hypostome #peebles formation

Happy #wormwednesday Here is a beautiful thorny oyster with a neat (textured) worm tube, jewel box and some sponge? borings. #spondylus #annelida #chamidae #spondylidae #molluscsofsrilanka

Happy #molluscmonday Here are some beautiful jewelbox shells from Sri Lanka. As a bonus, one has a drill hole #molluscsofsrilanka ##chamidae #oichnus