Bugboy's Arts

sketch account: @bugboy2

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Spiky Productid Brachiopod

Alt: productid brachiopods look superficially like clams but they are not molluscs. With productids they have one conves bowl-like valve and one flat almost concave valve. The concave valve is where their filter feeding lophophore attaches to, it's like a bristly tentacle that traps small particles. Many productids have spikes on their convex shell to help anchor them into the sediment

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Paraspirifer brachiopod

alt: top and side view of a paraspirifer brachiopod, they superficially look like clam shells, but inside you can see the spiral lophophore, the two filter feeding appendages that kinda look like a coiled spring. In the extinct spiriferids, these lophophores are supported by a hardened structure

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Oreinorema

enter: the new lobopodian Oreinorema

the paper which described this animal made some very bold claims about its anatomy and phylogenetic position. others have questioned these interpretations after looking at the scans used. as always more research is needed

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3D Behind the scenes

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Lesbian eurypterid, yuripterid if you will, inspired by sea scorpion from Dinosaur King

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2026's been a slow year for me to get things done.but Finally i finished this Rugose coral video! (when i was supposed to be continuing my brachiopod one...)

⚠️trypophobia warning there's a time lapse cross section of the coral skeleton showing the internal parts which has lots of holes

would really help if you watch and like the vid! Unfortunately these videos covering less known prehistoric animals tend to get less views overall

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Above are ceramics, statues, and clay figures from Osaka and Kyoto

Below, more ceramics on display at Echizen Crab museum

Japan loves crabs

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Some interesting potteries while visiting Tokoname, Nagoya

Ended up getting the Opabinia cup, it's made by

Takawogama

https://www.instagram.com/takawogama?igsh=MW50dGZpYmhtdjEz

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Ray

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Shop gallery quality Art Prints by Aldrich Hezekiah.

Heya, if you're looking for something to hang up on the wall next to your fossils, or bouquet of flowers, Crinoids might be a good fit 😉

I finally got to setup a shop in @inprnt, a lot of my other artworks are also available.

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The Crinoid hat video is finally up on my Youtube channel! it'll help if you can like or comment on it so that the algorithm won't yeet it into the shadow realm

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Gilbertsocrinus

alt: a Carboniferous crinoid (an echinoderm with radial arms jutying out of a central cup atop a stalk, like a sea flower with feathery tentacles) Gilbertsocrinus has a unique tegmen, the top part of its calyx. They are shaped like a grappling hook where five two pronged curving hooks emerge out of the tegmen. Their stalk is also unusually flexible for crinoids and have been found wrapped around other crinoid stalks, sort of like climbing vines, but animal..

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A Pirasocrinid

alt: this crinoid (an echinoderm with radial arms jutting out of a central cup atop a stalk, like a sea flower with feathery tentacles instead of petals.), has a tall anal chimney that ends with many radiating spines, like the skeleton of an umbrella.

Despite the gnarly experience, its cup and chimney is only about 3 cm tall

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Dorycrinus

alt: a crinoid is an echinoderm with radial arms jutting out of a central cup atop a stalk, like a sea flower with feathery tentacles instead of petals. Dorycrinus is one of many spiky crinoids from the carboniferous. On its cup, above the attachment points of its feathery arms, are 5 large radial spines and one smaller central spine to either deter parasites from attaching on it, or fend off predators that attack said parasites which will also damage the crinoid.

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Gennaeocrinus goldringae

alt: Gennaeocrinus is a bizzare spiny crinoid that seems to have 'antlers' coming out of its cup that looks somewhat like a moose's antler. it also has cirri, thin segmented tentacle like stalks coming out of its main stalk, like leafless twigs.

a crinoid is an echinoderm with radial arms jutting out of a central cup atop a stalk, like a sea flower with feathery tentacles instead of petals.

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Corocrinus calypso

alt: i wanted to go more colorful with this crinoid (an echinoderm with radial arms jutying out of a central cup atop a stalk, like a sea flower with feathery tentacles), here depicted with bands of blue and yellow for the arm and stalks, with red pinnules, the feather bits on the arms. most crinoids today live in the deep sea, but corocrinus and many others in the paleozoic lived in shallow water. Corocrinus seems to have this beautiful triangle/hexagon grid skeleton thingy on its cup instead of the usual hexagon plates

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Macrocrinus

alt: Macrocrinus, a crinoid (echinoderms with radial arms attached to a central cup suspended on a stalk like a flower, hence the name sea lily.) with something called an "anal chimney" (yes that's what it's called.) which is an extension on its tegmen that looks like a long tapering tube jutting out of its cup. This tube is meant as a deterrent for platyceratid snails from stealing their shit, literally, since it places their anus and undigested food further away from the base of the cup which the snails have an easier time attaching to. The snails of course, responded to this by simply drilling into the sides of these anal chimneys...