Photo Credit: Kelly F Fossil hunters might spot crinoids, brachiopods, and other marine fossils embedded in the sandstone – tangible connections to a time when this landlocked state was beneath an ...

Two different types of periostraca have been found in living articulate brachiopods. These two types can be correlated to give some indication of the structure of the prototypic shell.

Texas’s Guadalupe Mountains were once an ancient reef on the edge of a shallow sea. Now they form some of the highest and most fossil-rich peaks in the state, offering a rare look into a prehistoric ...

That’s a far way back. But it’s not Swatara State Park brachiopod far back. Visitors to the park in Lebanon and Schuylkill counties explore a fossil pit just off Bear Hole Trail and reasonably expect ...

These brachiopods dwell in burrows on the seabed, feeding through a unique filter system. Despite their ancient lineage, they are often mistaken for bivalve mollusks like clams. Great White shark ...

These layers, laden with marine fossils, serve as a geological record of ancient life forms, including trilobites, brachiopods, and other marine fauna that thrived during this era. Exploring these ...

The Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary (GLB) transition was a critical time interval during the Earth’s evolution history, associated with global major changes of paleoclimate, paleo-ocean and ...