Paul D. Taylor
@nhmbryozoa.bsky.social
Invertebrate palaeontologist and bryozoologist at the Natural History Museum, London.
#MolluscMonday A fossil scallop shell ‘Down Under’. Photographed in a building stone of Miocene Batesford Limestone at the Old Magistrates Court, Melbourne.
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
#MolluscMonday A fossil scallop shell ‘Down Under’. Photographed in a building stone of Miocene Batesford Limestone at the Old Magistrates Court, Melbourne.
#FossilFriday One extra fossil from Singapore, in the black limestone cladding of the same Prada shop as the rugose coral posted earlier, a brachiopod preserving internally the calcite supports of the two arms of the lophophore visible as rings of dots on the left and right side of the fossil.
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
#FossilFriday One extra fossil from Singapore, in the black limestone cladding of the same Prada shop as the rugose coral posted earlier, a brachiopod preserving internally the calcite supports of the two arms of the lophophore visible as rings of dots on the left and right side of the fossil.
Final fossil from Singapore - a silicified tree trunk, one of several in the Marine Bay gardens. Age and provenance unknown to me.
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Final fossil from Singapore - a silicified tree trunk, one of several in the Marine Bay gardens. Age and provenance unknown to me.
Another fossil from the streets of Singapore, a large nerineoid gastropod in the stone cladding of a jewellery shop in Little India. Presumably a European Cretaceous limestone.
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Another fossil from the streets of Singapore, a large nerineoid gastropod in the stone cladding of a jewellery shop in Little India. Presumably a European Cretaceous limestone.
Singapore Fossil Number 2, a Late Palaeozoic rugose coral, fortuitously brought to Singapore by Prada in a polished black limestone cladding one of their shop fronts.
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Singapore Fossil Number 2, a Late Palaeozoic rugose coral, fortuitously brought to Singapore by Prada in a polished black limestone cladding one of their shop fronts.
A bonus for #MolluscMonday, the first fossil I spotted today in Singapore, a sectioned ammonite on a polished slab of German Jurassic Treuchtlingen Formation used to clad a wall in Changi Airport.
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
A bonus for #MolluscMonday, the first fossil I spotted today in Singapore, a sectioned ammonite on a polished slab of German Jurassic Treuchtlingen Formation used to clad a wall in Changi Airport.
#MolluscMonday The L.F. Spath collection at the NHM in London includes numerous thin sections through the early growth stages of ammonoids. This crudely photographed example is of a Cretaceous ammonite.
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
#MolluscMonday The L.F. Spath collection at the NHM in London includes numerous thin sections through the early growth stages of ammonoids. This crudely photographed example is of a Cretaceous ammonite.
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20数年ぶりに福岡市地下鉄天神駅を訪問。階段手摺りのサンゴ・ウミユリ・腕足類・クダサンゴなどの化石はまだ存在していました。よかったよかった。
石材はベルギー産のプチグラニ🇧🇪
#街の中で見つかるすごい石
#UrbanGeology
#金曜日だから化石貼る
#FossilFriday
石材はベルギー産のプチグラニ🇧🇪
#街の中で見つかるすごい石
#UrbanGeology
#金曜日だから化石貼る
#FossilFriday
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
20数年ぶりに福岡市地下鉄天神駅を訪問。階段手摺りのサンゴ・ウミユリ・腕足類・クダサンゴなどの化石はまだ存在していました。よかったよかった。
石材はベルギー産のプチグラニ🇧🇪
#街の中で見つかるすごい石
#UrbanGeology
#金曜日だから化石貼る
#FossilFriday
石材はベルギー産のプチグラニ🇧🇪
#街の中で見つかるすごい石
#UrbanGeology
#金曜日だから化石貼る
#FossilFriday
#FossilFriday Painted black to enhance contrast, a pair of cheilostome colonies encrusting a test of Echinocorys from the English Chalk. Bryozoans are exceedingly common on the tests of this infaunal echinoid which had to be exhumed before encrustation.
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
#FossilFriday Painted black to enhance contrast, a pair of cheilostome colonies encrusting a test of Echinocorys from the English Chalk. Bryozoans are exceedingly common on the tests of this infaunal echinoid which had to be exhumed before encrustation.
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For this #FossilFriday, something special for me: one of the few books on fossils in Turkish when I was a kid. 13 yo me was turning the pages, reading word by word to learn about fossils, dreaming about being a paleontologist. Many years later, at a Palaeontological Association conference dinner...
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
For this #FossilFriday, something special for me: one of the few books on fossils in Turkish when I was a kid. 13 yo me was turning the pages, reading word by word to learn about fossils, dreaming about being a paleontologist. Many years later, at a Palaeontological Association conference dinner...
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This is excellent advice for all first time presenters … also, the quality of your talk will not impact your future career - that comes down to your CV & skills overall, not your ability to perform on the platform. So, if you slip up a bit don’t sweat it - most of the audience won’t realise anyway 🤷🏻♂️
The best advice I received back when I gave my first presentation was, "This is your study and you know this subject better than anyone else who might be listening. Relax." It helped. #2025SVP
Many of our student attendees will be giving their first talk or poster this meeting! What advice you give them to help make it the best experience possible?
#2025SVP
#2025SVP
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is excellent advice for all first time presenters … also, the quality of your talk will not impact your future career - that comes down to your CV & skills overall, not your ability to perform on the platform. So, if you slip up a bit don’t sweat it - most of the audience won’t realise anyway 🤷🏻♂️
#MolluscMonday Balanced on a wall beneath the ice-cream parlour at Aubeterre (Charente, France) is a fossil of the large rudist bivalve Hippurites, probably collected from a local field underlain by Campanian limestones.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#MolluscMonday Balanced on a wall beneath the ice-cream parlour at Aubeterre (Charente, France) is a fossil of the large rudist bivalve Hippurites, probably collected from a local field underlain by Campanian limestones.
Reposted by Paul D. Taylor
#FossilFriday Sectioned stems of the Jurassic crinoid Apiocrinus in the paving stones around the Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux. From Burgundy to Bordeaux.
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
#FossilFriday Sectioned stems of the Jurassic crinoid Apiocrinus in the paving stones around the Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux. From Burgundy to Bordeaux.
Reposted by Paul D. Taylor
Pre-registration for the Oslo Larwood #bryozoan is open. Welcome to Oslo 1-3 June 2026. @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social @bryozoology.bsky.social @tschwaha.bsky.social Link to registration in comment under.
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Pre-registration for the Oslo Larwood #bryozoan is open. Welcome to Oslo 1-3 June 2026. @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social @bryozoology.bsky.social @tschwaha.bsky.social Link to registration in comment under.
#MolluscMonday Spirals from the Cretaceous: sections of fossil snail shells in the pavements of Libourne and Bordeaux, SW France.
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
#MolluscMonday Spirals from the Cretaceous: sections of fossil snail shells in the pavements of Libourne and Bordeaux, SW France.
Reposted by Paul D. Taylor
Congrats Wolfgang! Very well deserved
We warmly congratulate Wolfgang Kießling on his outstanding achievement in the Ranking of the Stanford List 2025. Wolfgang is ranked among the top 50 in his field!
This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.
This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Congrats Wolfgang! Very well deserved
#FossilFriday A bonus fossil for #Halloween: the ghoulish ‘face’ of a sectioned Carboniferous brachiopod from a Winchester Cathedral gravestone.
October 31, 2025 at 5:41 AM
#FossilFriday A bonus fossil for #Halloween: the ghoulish ‘face’ of a sectioned Carboniferous brachiopod from a Winchester Cathedral gravestone.
#FossilFriday The gravestone of the oddly named Connop Thirlwall in Westminster Abbey is made of black limestone (?Tournai Marble) containing horizontally sectioned productid brachiopods.
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 AM
#FossilFriday The gravestone of the oddly named Connop Thirlwall in Westminster Abbey is made of black limestone (?Tournai Marble) containing horizontally sectioned productid brachiopods.
Reposted by Paul D. Taylor
Congratulations to Abby Smith and Patrick Wyse Jackson, who were awarded the Ellis Medal at this year's International Bryozoology Meeting in Japan in recognition of their outstanding and honourable service to the community.
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Congratulations to Abby Smith and Patrick Wyse Jackson, who were awarded the Ellis Medal at this year's International Bryozoology Meeting in Japan in recognition of their outstanding and honourable service to the community.
#MolluscMonday Handsome facsimile of a scallop shell on a plaque celebrating marine circumnavigation. Westminster Abbey cloisters.
October 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
#MolluscMonday Handsome facsimile of a scallop shell on a plaque celebrating marine circumnavigation. Westminster Abbey cloisters.
#FossilFriday Not to be outdone by Isaac Newton who is buried beneath a gastropod fossil in Westminster Abbey, the famous geologist Charles Lyell’s gravestone is Carboniferous crinoidal limestone full of columnals of these ‘sea-lilies’.
October 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
#FossilFriday Not to be outdone by Isaac Newton who is buried beneath a gastropod fossil in Westminster Abbey, the famous geologist Charles Lyell’s gravestone is Carboniferous crinoidal limestone full of columnals of these ‘sea-lilies’.
I’m thinking of rebranding myself as a ‘Content Creator’ and an ‘Influencer’. After all, I create written content with the hope of it having some influence. Could this be a lucrative move?
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I’m thinking of rebranding myself as a ‘Content Creator’ and an ‘Influencer’. After all, I create written content with the hope of it having some influence. Could this be a lucrative move?
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‼️Special volume about arthropod paleontology was published today in the Journal of Paleontology, honoring the late Dr. Rodney Feldmann.🦀🦞🦐 Many of the 20 articles are open access. @paleosoc.bsky.social #paleontology #fossil #crab #lobster #shrimp
Full volume:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Full volume:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
‼️Special volume about arthropod paleontology was published today in the Journal of Paleontology, honoring the late Dr. Rodney Feldmann.🦀🦞🦐 Many of the 20 articles are open access. @paleosoc.bsky.social #paleontology #fossil #crab #lobster #shrimp
Full volume:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Full volume:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#MolluscMonday Flattened specimen of the Early Jurassic ammonite Harpoceras photographed on the North Yorkshire coast in 2011.
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 AM
#MolluscMonday Flattened specimen of the Early Jurassic ammonite Harpoceras photographed on the North Yorkshire coast in 2011.