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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Marrella splendens is here in TECHNICOLOR

Prints here www.inprnt.com/gallery/near...

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Illustration of Marrella splendens in the style of a psychedelic 1960s concert poster. It's bright orange, magenta, and turquoise, and I do mean BRIGHT. Text gives the animal's taxonomy (Arthropoda, Marrellomorpha, Marrellida, Marrellidae), binomial name, and rough age (Middle Cambrian, circa 520 MYA). I think technically that may not be part of the Middle Cambrian anymore? This piece is from 2014.
May 21, 2026 at 9:35 AM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
Marrella splendends is a simply splendid arthropod from the 500 million year old Cambrian.

#MarrellaMonday
Marrella splendends, fossil and artistic reconstruction.
November 26, 2024 at 2:41 AM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
A trilobite, a marrella and a wiwaxia walk into a McDonald's. And the excited marrella can't wait to shout that today is #MarrellaMonday
A trilobite, a marrella and a wiwaxia walk into a McDonald's.
April 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Lovely Marrella 🐡🧪
Model and fossil of the Cambrian arthropod Marrella splendens. The animal has four backward-pointing spines projecting from its head region, long antennae, and a series of appendages projecting from each body segment that consist of a fringed gill on top and a walking leg on the bottom. The model is a translucent salmon color.
January 4, 2026 at 12:11 AM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
#MarrellaMonday
Marrella splendens
July 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Here's Marrella splendens, which looks like a lobster with a brain sucker on its head.
Marrella splendens, artist rendering
November 8, 2023 at 1:24 AM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
Remembering Marrella splendends on this pre-ValentinesDay #MarrellaMonday
Marrella splendends
February 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
It's important to know that you cannot get brain cancer from a Marrella.

#MarrellaMonday
John Moffitt and his Marrella associate.
November 26, 2024 at 2:56 AM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
I'm just damn glad that I have a marrella. And there is no way I'm going to eat it.

#MarrellaMonday
A man who will NOT eat a marrella.
December 24, 2024 at 4:44 AM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is marrella, a marine arthropod from the middle cambrian of asia and north america. marrella fossils are among the most common finds in the burgess shale, where thousands of specimens have been collected
(art by andrey atuchin)
art of marrella, a multi-segmented arthropod whose head shield bears two pairs of prominent posteriorly curved projections, flexible antennae on the underside of its head a photograph of the marrella lectotype, specimen USNM PAL 57674
April 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
Marrella doesn't stand a chance against Anomalocaris.
Marrella doesn't stand a chance against Anomalocaris.
March 23, 2026 at 2:01 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
a little Burgess Shale action

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An illustration of a piece of rock shale with various Cambrian organisms fossilized on it. Clockwise from the top is Hallucigenia, Opabinia, and Marrella. At the center is Naraoia. They are mostly blue-gray and illustrated on top of a dark blue-gray background.
January 24, 2026 at 7:43 PM
nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
I'm *so* happy with how these guys turned out! #sciart
Prints of psychedelic illustrations of Hallucigenia, Opabinia, and Marrella. Opabinia is just the print; the other two are matted and in plastic sleeves.
August 6, 2026 at 4:24 AM
impulseimpact.bsky.social
24th of january 2025 there was no paleostream flocking but i do have some beans i hadnt posted

marrella deiphon
niebla dracorex
#paleoart #lowpoly #blockbench
January 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
While today is #MarrellaMonday ... the day is not necessarily good for the marrella.
Woman devouring a marrella.
December 24, 2024 at 1:54 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
Creatures of the Cambrian period!
A colorful poster illustration featuring 15 species of animals from the Cambrian period 541-485 million years ago. These are mostly unusual looking invertebrates, such as Hurdia, Wiwaxia, Anomalocaris, Peytoia, trilobites, Marrella, Nectocaris, Hallucigenia, Opabinia, Plectronoceras, Lyrarapax, and Naraoia. An early chordate (Pikaia) is also included. The animals are brightly colored on a dark black background. White numbers with a key label each species.
February 24, 2026 at 5:32 PM
susieoftraken.bsky.social
Saw this and thought of all those Marrella fossils with their black leaky stains
Marrella, an arthropod preserved in the Burgess Shale
September 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
vestasflames.bsky.social
Marrella splendens drawing #marrellasplendens #merrymarrellamas #marrella #cambrian #arthropod
January 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2013 I built 23 scale and life-size models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here's an enlarged Marrella, a trilobite from the Middle Cambrian.

#PaleoArt #Marrella #Cambrian #JurassicWorld
August 9, 2024 at 11:38 AM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
The puzzled Marrella.

"There's got to be an ammonite around here someplace.

#MarrellaMonday

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A Marrella sits on an ammonite.
December 17, 2024 at 12:48 AM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
A marrella visits a White Castle.

#MarrellaMonday
A marrella visits a White Castle. #MarrellaMonday
April 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
That's the closely related Marrella.

I'll tweet some cuddly trilobites tomorrow on #TrilobiteTuesday
April 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
impulseimpact.bsky.social
lil marrella drawings form 2022, most underrated burgess critter
October 26, 2024 at 8:51 PM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
Lots of opportunities for marrella mischief.
Marrella mischief
January 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
johnmoffitt.bsky.social
Fall is finding a Marrella among the leaves.

#TrilobiteTuesday
Fall is finding a Marrella among the leaves. #TrilobiteTuesday
October 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM