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9 January 2012
‘Bugs’ I saw in South Africa
Here is a collection of creepy-crawlies I saw in South Africa: Big grasshopper/katydid orthopteran: Another big orthopteran (“locust”?), obviously beefier than the previous one: Beach roach (Blattodea): Mating true bugs (hemipterans): Here’s a big snail, too: And best of all? This solpugid! Solpugids are arachnids, but they are not spiders. Along with vinegaroons, scorpions, pseudoscorpions, tailless whip-scorpions, ticks and harvestmen (“daddy-longlegs”), solpugids roam the world as effective predators but I’ve …
2 September 2011
Friday fold: duplex structure in the gastropod limestone
The Friday fold is a gorgeously deformed “duplex structure” in Mesozoic limestones of southwestern Montana.
4 June 2010
Straight nautiloid fossil
It seems I forgot to show this fossil when I found it in February of last year with my MSSE advisor John Graves. We were out in the Needmore Formation of the Fort Valley then. The Needmore is a formation I visited again yesterday with some colleagues in other outcrops further to the west. In shade (penny for scale): In sideways-angled sunlight (thumb for scale): I’ll debrief yesterday’s field trip …
25 February 2010
Lola → ammonite
Seeing my cat in this posture: …made me think of this: Where did those hind legs go?