#conodont

[alex-fictus]

Cambrian Critters!

Anomalocaris - Opabinia - Wiwaxia

Canadaspis - Haikoucaris - Hurdia

Myllokunmingia - Conodont - Haikouichthys

Pikaia gracilens - Hallucigenia - Eldonia

Elrathia kingii - Marella - Paradoxides

Pomatrum - Helicoplacus - Vetuicola

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Planned or in the works: Cambropachycope, Amplectobelua, Stanleycaris, Balhuticaris, Kylinxia, Chancellorid, Omnidens

[jawless-lads]

[demi-shoggoth]

I teach high school Bio, and I had my students do an assignment about the mass extinctions. One of my students then referred to conodonts as "funny little guys"

Which is fair

Image © @alphynix

[payeehay]

Imagine, for a moment, that you're a Conodont (a tiny, prehistoric snake-like boy) and you're swimming along, looking for food.

You feel the water move by your tail, and you look to see this.

It's the last thing you see before you die.

[Image Description: A Sacabambaspis (finless, jawless prehistoric fish) looms in the middle-foreground, looking right at the viewer. Her eyes are large and round and shiny, and her maw is immovable, perpetually open in a silly, gaping grin.

She's round and half-mossy-green and half-white, and has some gill slits along her sides and some sensory depressions along her spine.

In the background, a Conodont flees, and in the foreground, a different Conodont's tail ("your" tail, for the purpose of this post) wafts out, until it eventually touches the Sacabambaspis and floats to the side, offscreen.]

This post was inspired by a Discord message I sent while some friends and I were talking about Sacabambaspis, in which I postulated that it was a predator, because of its front-facing eyes.

I've since done some more research, and learned that they were likely filter-feeders, due to their jawlessness and lack of teeth, but they did have a set of bony plates in their mouths, that likely moved in order to provide suction.

I couldn't find much in the way of what they actually ate, but I could see them being opportunists who would totally munch on the Forbidden Spaghetti.

(Conodonts, thought to be the world's oldest vertebrates, were long, skinny lil guys with huge, side-facing eyes and maws filled with jagged dental plates (tons of em, actually), but one of the only two (2) sources that I could find in regards to their actual size says that they were about 2mm in diameter, but up to 400mm long! Which are absolutely wild proportions lmao.)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the art! <3

Bonus wips:

[yee-qi]

i'm really perspectivesing rn You can see more art in this series in the #perspectives tag!

"Underdog's Venom" Panderodus/Michelinoceras Silurian, 433 million years ago, Brandon Bridge Formation (United States, Wisconsin) Panderodus was a conodont, best known for their freaky-ass teeth that they left on the ground after the rest of their largely skeleton-less bodies decomposed. A recent body fossil of Panderodus here indicates that unlike most conodonts, this guy was wider and flatter and likely used its big old chompers to hunt large prey. Plus, the creature was quite possibly venomous. Michelinoceras is a fun orthocerid that somehow lasted up to the Triassic, making it one super long-lived genus. This individual has gone up against the venomous conodont, ignored the warnings, and is clearly experiencing...something. That can't be comfortable! Cephalopods tend to have blue blood.

[ppaleoartistgallery]

Parachirognathus Commission

commission for @notsonanosaurus

it depicts two Parachirognathus swimming by a Dicynodon skull subfossil in a Triassic reef for her poster that she and her professor will be presenting in a couple of months.

[dromaeosaurid]

Conodonts! From A Guide to the Fossil Reptiles and Fishes in the Department of Geology and Paleontology in the British Museum (Natural History), 1896.

[taphonomenon]

Trying out some fish, here's a doodle of Panderodus, a tiny Conodont jawless fish from the Silurian. This one's about six to seven times life size.

[ormspryde]

The conodont promissum. I don't know how thrilled I am with this one, but it's done now.

[ID: A pixel art depiction of the conodont promissum, an extinct type of conodont that lived during the upper Ordovician. The animal ismaking an s shape with its body, and is depicted in pink and purple against a darker purple background. /ID]

[craftingcreatures]

As thrilled as I am that they've included a conodont at all, I have to ask. WHY. did they give the jawless fish jaws. You know. The thing jawless fish famously do not have

Clydagnathus - Veiled Sea

Endless Ocean Luminous, Nintendo Switch

how are these things real. where does your brain go

[alex-fictus]

The Ordovician!

485 to 443 million years ago.

Isotelus - Asaphus - Flexicalymene

Selenopeltis - Dalmanites - Cheirurus

Rugose Coral - Crinoid - Conulariid

Lunataspis - Offacolus - Aegirocassis

Orthoceras - Conodont

Astraspis - Sacabambaspis

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[jawless-lads]

[sina-man]

Scyphocrinites and conodonts.

Silurian Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

[raylaismad]

HOLYYY SHITTTTTTTT

My genuine reaction^

achievement unlocked✅

[dick-in-son-ia]

I love learning geology, i know about pettable critters you wouldn't even DREAM of

[theofficialpeanutgallery]

GUYS

GUYS

I GOT AN EMAIL FROM TRUMP.

I think it’s like, a mass-sent email for all his “supporters” (yes, I’ve been Diagnosed with Trump Supporter by Trump himself, which is hilarious for a number of reasons), begging poor people to pay for his next campaign, so he can ‘Save America from Joe Biden and the Left.’ That’s President Biden to you, sucker.

Don’t know how to break it to you, buddy, but I kinda am the Left.

Like, my brother’s a full-on raging socialist, we as a family listen to Rise Against and oppose fascism as a general rule.

Wonder how he got my email, google.

Anyway, there’s an option for “donating another amount”. Wonder if I can get away with -12 dollars...

Or I could just reply with as many of his most hated photos as I can cram into email form.