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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my 2019 painting of a new species of polychaete (bristle worm) from the early Cambrian Canglangpu formation (China), called Dannychaeta tucolus. This was commissioned for Chen et al 2020.

yulecatt

tribute to anomalocaris

ironychan

It's weird how geological time works. Eras start and end bit by bit over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. That sounds like a big uncertainty but that sort of timescale, on which the climate can overhaul itself completely and entire species rise and fall, is instantaneous compared to the age of the earth. Any hypothetical sentient creature would have no idea it was living through a major turning point. The Silurian slid into the Devonian as land plants became A Thing and insects started to wonder if 'pilot' might be a good career path, but there was no one moment when one thing ended and another began. That's not how that works...

... except for the Cretaceous. The Cretaceous had a Last Day and it was probably in April, and then the next day it was the Paleogene.

drbread

One beast down

sagasolejma

You've all heard and seen palaeocharinus, the extinct cute Devonian arachnid that looks like if a spider was built like a tank and who has a head that's shaped like a bucket helm

but now consider this:

#THIS IS THE FUCKING TRUTH

facivermis

What is the earliest era you listen to music from?

Quaternary or later

Neogene

Paleogene

Cretaceous

Jurassic

Triassic

Permian

Carboniferous

Devonian

Silurian

Ordovician

Cambrian or earlier

Voting ended onAug 12, 2024

facivermis

thank you guys for participating in my silly poll i am extremely enthused over how the carboniferous has the most votes aside from top and bottom two. you KNOW the carboniferous sounds good. rainforest ambiance on crack

yee-qi

Tribute to Anomalocaris

Not a Perspectives post, still working on the next one of those. Anomalocaris also isn't exactly the great grandpappy of all arthropods, but...close enough lol