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ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social
SHRIMPtember concludes a Devonian decapod whose descendants become shrimp 🦐, lobsters 🦞, and crabs 🦀 (but not Dendrobranchiata -- prawns 🍤).

#shrimptember #palaeopalaemon #paleoart #education #SciArt
The ancient ancestor of shrimp, Palaeopalaemon newberryi, as a spooky ghost
October 1, 2026 at 5:42 AM
domenicpennetta.bsky.social
Posting some #paleoart today! P. newberry was discovered in the Devonian Chagrin Shale of Ohio and is considered the earliest decapod crustacean. 🦀

I'm not completely happy with my reconstruction (the abdomen can't 'curl' as shown). But maybe I can remake this image someday!

#paleotolgy #sciart
Digital illustration of an early crustacean, Palaeopalaemon newberry, traversing the Devonian sea floor of Ohio. Art by Domenic Pennetta. Composite image of figures taken from "Morphology and paleoecology of the oldest lobster-like decapod, Palaeopalaemon newberryi Whitfield" by Wade Jones, et. al.
March 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
jopabinia.bsky.social
#Crustmas ends the way so many things do...with carcinization!

@franzanth.bsky.social's reconstructions from here: youtu.be/wvfR3XLXPvw?...

Merry #Crustmas! 🧪🦑🦀
Paralomis debodeorum (fossil king crab, not a true crab) reconstruction by Franz Anthony Eoprosopon (the earliest true crab) reconstruction by Franz Anthony Aka Jurassic crab The putative earliest false crab, Platykotta akaina from the Triassic. Reconstruction by Franz Anthony Palaeopalaemon newberryi, the oldest (Devonian) decapod crustacean. It is basically lobster. Reconstruction by Franz Anthony
December 25, 2023 at 4:23 PM
pnnews.bsky.social
Let's welcome Palaeopalaemon

#Minecraft #prehistoric #paleoart #palaeotology #Devonian
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
jopabinia.bsky.social
@franzanth.bsky.social drew Palaeopalaemon too!
Franz Anthony's version of the Devonian lobster Palaeopalaemon. It is eyeless and lobsterlike
September 18, 2024 at 3:12 PM