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Ranjeev Epa PhD

@ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social

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Invertebrate Paleontologist, Bivalvologist, Zoologist, Geologist, Independent Researcher, Educator, and Businessman. Contact me on [email protected] He/him

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · 13d

Happy #fossilfriday
Here is a neat #brachiopod, #Leptagonia ? from the #burlington limestone of Missouri
#fossilsofmissouri

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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 13d

Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today?

dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042

Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project

dx.doi.org

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · 16d

Check out this beautiful specimen from the #Bellevue Formation. Got some tiny 550ish million years old #gastropods hanging out with some #brachiopods and #bryozoans

Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · 21d

Happy #fossilfriday
Checkout this cool #Mississippian ? #brachiopod which I believe is #Composita encrusted by some #bryozoa #fossilsofmissouri

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · 22d

#Terebralia palustris with a ton of post mortem #polydorid borings
#polydora
#caulostrepsis
#neoichnology
#molluscsofsrilanka

Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · Sep 8

Happy #molluscmonday
Check out this cool drill hole on a #cowrie
#oichnus
#cypraeidae
#molluscsofsrilanka

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · Sep 6

Pretty foraminifera
#foramsofsrilanka

Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · Sep 1

Complete and incomplete drill holes on turritellid gastropods
#oichnus
#turritellidae
#gastropoda
#neoichnology
#molluscsofsrilanka

Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · Sep 1

Went through a sand sample and found a bunch of tiny spikey things...

Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · Jul 21

Happy #molluscmonday
Check out this beautiful shell which I believe is #Hydatina amplustre
This is from the USF malacology collection

Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · Jul 16

Tubercles, pore pairs, Ambulacra and interambulacra
#echinoidea

Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · Jul 7

Happy #molluscmonday
Here is a beautiful snakehead cowry from #srilanka
#Monetaria caputserpentis
#cypraeidae
#molluscsofsrilanka

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · Jun 29

#Sapphire

Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · Jun 29

Happy #FossilFriday
Check out this beautiful #horncoral from #Kentucky that's infilled with sediment hiding a few #brachiopods n #bryozoans
#ordovician
#rugosa

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · Jun 20

Happy #FossilFriday
Checkout these beautiful fossil #cone snails from the #Plio-Pleistocene of #Florida
#conidae
#fossilsofflorida

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · Jun 14

Beautiful high-spired turritellid? gastropod
#shellsonstone
#molluscsofsrilanka

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · May 30

Happy #fossilfriday from the #Miocene of Sri Lanka
#molluscsofsrilanka
#fossilsofsrilanka

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · May 28

The wonderful and amazing molluscs

Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · May 27

Lol

Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · May 22

When I meant a whole , I was referring to igloos where the parasite was able to maintain a connection with the host 😊

pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · May 22

This is awesome! I'm concerned about the layers being separated like that. If you do not see any evidence of external boring, this is likely a response by the clams to encapsulate and isolate intruding trematode parasites... Do any of those blisters have an opening? If so parasite likely survived 😊

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · May 19

Happy #MolluscMonday
Check out this beautiful mytilid #Brachidontes ? with some cool blisters
#mytilidae
#molluscsofsrilanka

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · May 19

If anyone is looking to hire an invertebrate paleontologisst/ zoologist / bivalvologist pls do let me know.

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · May 18

Do they have an opening ? like those trematode induced "igloos"
Having seen something very similar in one of my samples, I'm leaning towards a reaction against trematodes. But id there any indication of boring on the outside?

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · May 15

Beautiful #bryozoan colony inside a broken helmet shell
#hikkaduwa
#Bryozoa
#molluscsofsrilanka

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