#microbial mat

[ppaleoartistgallery]

#Paleostream 26/04/2025

here's today's #Paleostream flocking sketches!!!

today we sketched Triceratops, Helveticosaurus, Dickinsonia, and Melanorosaurus

[transparentfossil]

14.9" Pennsylvanian, Fossil Microbial Mat - Oklahoma

[allottavabassa]

Trilobite disturbing a seafloor microbial ecosystem

[wiwaxia-official]

[carbohs-region]

Archanyte, the Loose Ground Pokemon!

Type: Normal

Evolves into Archagaarden With an explosion of life in the surface waters, many sessile organisms would learn to live on the microbial mats of the seabed. Rocks and debris that were caught in the mats would eventually be infested and become Archanytes. When the microbial mats began to disappear halfway through Eohs, Archanytes would be some of the last pieces of solid ground for corals and sponges to live on.

[rabbitcruiser]

Colors

What do you think about my pic?

[gaynaturalistghost]

It’s Kel again! She’s a water genasi (ish) based on the most old-god thing I know, microbial mats! I’ve researched them for years now and I made a way to get botany-style cross sections and they were the most lovely mix of orange, yellow and pink sulfur oxidizing bacteria with soft greens. I have some more notes in the bottom right picture

Cyanobacteria never developed sexual reproduction, I wanted to keep that and she is trans! And the little bits coming off her “fins” are streamers, one of the structures Cyanobacteria mats form : >

[scrumpyfan43]

Thinking about the Cambrian Substrate Revolution...

You know how stories are sometimes like "what if there was a Primordial Organism in the world" well there was one and it got eaten by trilobites