Mar 13
Sundial snail!
Architectonica Perspectiva
seen from China
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Sundial snail!
Architectonica Perspectiva
Plate 2 of Regenfuss shell engravings (1750's).
Engraved by Franz Michael Regenfuss, and hand-coloured by his wife, Margaretha Helena.
© Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales. CC0 Public Domain.
Fig. 6 Cross-section of a Nautilus shell, showing simply curved chamber walls and the centrally placed tube, called siphuncle (Why this Museum Fossil is NOT an Ammonite – by Christian Gronau, Cortes Museum & Archives)
#Sciart for #ValentinesDay 💕:
Heart Cockles! (Corculum cardissa)
“Cardium,” Plate 59 in General Conchology by William Wood (London, 1815)
via Biodiversity Heritage Library
Oxynoe kylei
from the Portuguese sea…
Cecil when he was human! lololol (he gonna be fish later)
He likes shells bc of his mom! :3
She would take him down to riverbanks and beaches to teach him about the ocean and shells
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Well she used to.
(also if any of you nerds /lh wanna tell me about marine biology facts or shell facts it would be a great help!!)
