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Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social  ·  activity timestamp 9 months ago

Thinking about fossil marine invertebrates that Kielan-Jaworowska studied at the beginning of her career, made me think of this pattern made from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 million to 485.4 million years ago). 🧵

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16990670-cambrian-sea-by-minouette

#linocut #printmaking #pattern #surfaceDesign #paleontology #sciArt #Cambrian #BurgessShale #trilobite #wiwaxia #Opabinia #InverteFest #invertebrate #fossils #MastoArt

As described this is a square image of a repeat pattern of my linocuts of three Cambrian invertebrates, each printed with each section on a different patterned and coloured Japanese washi paper. The background is sand coloured with brown speckles. The animals are in multiple colours. The animals are spiky ovoid Wiwaxia, Opabinia (somewhat like a shrimp with 5 eyes on stalks and a trunk like tubular proboscis with grasping claws) and the trilobite Cheirurus ingricus.
As described this is a square image of a repeat pattern of my linocuts of three Cambrian invertebrates, each printed with each section on a different patterned and coloured Japanese washi paper. The background is sand coloured with brown speckles. The animals are in multiple colours. The animals are spiky ovoid Wiwaxia, Opabinia (somewhat like a shrimp with 5 eyes on stalks and a trunk like tubular proboscis with grasping claws) and the trilobite Cheirurus ingricus.
As described this is a square image of a repeat pattern of my linocuts of three Cambrian invertebrates, each printed with each section on a different patterned and coloured Japanese washi paper. The background is sand coloured with brown speckles. The animals are in multiple colours. The animals are spiky ovoid Wiwaxia, Opabinia (somewhat like a shrimp with 5 eyes on stalks and a trunk like tubular proboscis with grasping claws) and the trilobite Cheirurus ingricus.
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Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 months ago

The spiky handprinted Wiwaxia, a half billion year old soft-bodied animal covered in scales & spines lived in the early & middle Cambrian period & fossils are found worldwide, including in Canada’s Burgess Shale. The animals themselves were only about 5 cm (2”) but my linocut prints are much bigger.

The fossils of this unmistakable 5-eyed Opabinia, (with eyes on stalks, no less) a soft-bodied 7 cm long animal are found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale Lagerstätte (505 million years ago).🧵

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Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 months ago

Opabinia likely caught prey with the grasping claws on the end of its long tubular proboscis (like an elephant’s trunk).

Trilobites were widespread. This Cheirurus ingricus lived during the Late Cambrian through the Early Devonian era from about 500 million years ago to 390 million years ago. Trilobites were arthropods (as are modern day insects, lobsters, shrimp and more) which left fossils of their exoskeletons worldwide. 🧵3/4

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@minouette@spore.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 months ago

There are many thousands of different species and their fossils have been important to biostratigraphy, paleontology, evolutionary biology, and plate tectonics. 🧵4/4

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