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BA008S - Base acrilico trasparente quadrata 50x50x20 mm
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#fossili #conchiglie #paleontologia #collezione #collezioni #fossils #shells #collection #museum #ammoniti #ammonites #devoniano #devonian #book #paleontology

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some zooms into my "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" painting (2022), showing the Severn Estuary in the Late Devonian. Featured are a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, zosterophylls, lycopsids, & equisetids.

New seed #fossil sheds light on wind dispersal in plants phys.org/news/2024-10-seed-fos

Alasemenia, the earliest ovule with three wings and without cupule elifesciences.org/articles/929

"The earliest-known plant seeds date back to the Late #Devonian epoch. This period marks a significant evolutionary milestone in plant history, as they transitioned from spore-based reproduction, as with ferns and mosses, to seed-based reproduction... However, little is known about wind dispersal in seeds during this time"

Ancient reef-building #stromatoporoids dodged #extinction—at least temporarily
phys.org/news/2024-09-ancient-

Post-Devonian re-emergence and demise of stromatoporoids as major reef-builders on a #Carboniferous Panthalassan seamount pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/g

"ancient reef-building sponge-like organisms called #stromatoporoids survived the Late #Devonian #MassExtinction event and continued to thrive as major reef-builders long after their presumed extinction"

New fossil #fish species scales up evidence of Earth's evolutionary march phys.org/news/2024-09-fossil-f

A Late #Devonian coelacanth reconfigures actinistian #phylogeny, disparity, and evolutionary dynamics: Alice Clement et al. nature.com/articles/s41467-024

"The discovery of an exceptionally well preserved ancient primitive Devonian #coelacanth fish in remote Western #Australia has been linked to a period of heightened tectonic activity, or movement in the Earth's crust"