Devonian Tapestries

Silurian era and devonian era trilobite fossil drawing.

Silurian era and devonian era trilobite fossil drawings.

Ocean inhabitants

Dunkleosteus was a 19.7 foot super-predator that used a lethal combination of suction and a wicked bite to cut through everything unlucky enough to cross it’s path, armor or no. Like many fish living today, D.terrelli most likely would swim close to unsuspecting prey and suck water into it’s mouth along with it’s victim. Instead of teeth, Dunkleosteus possessed a set of bony plates that were an extension of it’s own dermal armor. These places were self sharpening and would shear through most other armored fish with little trouble and was aided by a four-bar linkage mechanism that allowed it to open and close it’s jaws on the top and bottom at incredibly high speeds.

Retro design for fossil hunters. Vintage look for excavations and fossil shoping.

A dramatic sunset in Devin, near Exmouth. Canon 5D Mk3, EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM, 42mm, f8 @ 1/200th, 400 ISO

NASA Earth Observatory High Resolution Astronomy Siljan Ring, Sweden poster for enthusiast astronomer with love of astrophotography for bedroom wall art graphic telescope view astronomical space pics from Hubble JWST and Spitzer

New research suggests Dunkleosteus was a bit smaller than we thought

RAWR T-REX TYRANNOSAURUS REX CUTE DINOSAUR illustration. Tyrannosaurus[nb 1] is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex (rex meaning "king" in Latin), often called T. rex or colloquially T-Rex, is one of the most well-represented of the large theropods. Tyrannosaurus lived throughout what is now western North America, on what was then an island continent known as Laramidia. Tyrannosaurus had a much wider range than other tyrannosaurids. Fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, 68 to 66 million years ago. It was the last known member of the tyrannosaurids, and among the last non-avian dinosaurs to exist before the Cretaceous–Paleoge...

DINOSAURS WORDING ILLUSTRATION

CUTE STEGOSAURUS (STEGOSAUR) DINOSAUR ILLUSTRATION. Stegosaurus (/ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːrəs/1), from Greek stegos (στέγος) which means roof and sauros (σαῦρος) which means lizard, is a genus of herbivorous thyreophoran dinosaur. Fossils of this genus date to the Late Jurassic period, where they are found in Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian aged strata, between 155 and 150 million years ago, in the western United States and Portugal. Of the species that have been classified in the upper Morrison Formation of the western US, only three are universally recognized; S. stenops, S. ungulatus and S. sulcatus. The remains of over 80 individual animals of this genus have been found. Stegosaurus would have lived alongside dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Diplodo...

Tarr Steps is an ancient clapper bridge (a bridge made of unmortared stone slabs) which crosses the River Barle about 6.5 miles upstream from Dulverton, Devon.

ANKYLOSAURUS DINOSAUR illustration

The sickest Tiktaalik you ever saw B)

Fish leaving water I'm outta here

Fish leaving water I'm outta here

Reconstruction of various Cleveland Shale arthrodires, including Titanichthys (top), Selenosteus (eating a shark), adult and juvenile Dunkleosteus terrelli (center), and Gorgonichthys (bottom). From the Famennian Epoch of the Late Devonian.

Reconstruction of the sinolepid antiarch placoderm, Xichonolepis qujingensis, from Middle Devonian (Givetian epoch) Yunnan.

A large, salmon-sized placoderm from the Kellwasserkalk of Late Devonian Germany.

The world's youngest and last-known anomalocaridid arthropod. Schinderhannes bartelsi is named after the infamous German bandit, and is from the Early Devonian Hunsruck.

Reconstruction of the large brachydeirid arthrodire placoderm, Brachydeirus grandis, from the Late Frasnian Kellwasserkalk fauna of Bad Wildungen, Late Devonian Germany.

A swordfish-like placoderm fish. Known from a Devonian-aged skull found in Spain.

A species of arthrodire placoderm from the late Devonian of Morocco. This trout-sized predator ate other fish and held them in place with pronged tooth plates.

Rachiosteus, a tiny placoderm from the Kellwasserkalk of Late Devonian Germany.

A giant placoderm fish that haunted the Late Devonian oceans

Synauchenia, a "helmeted" placoderm from the Kellwasserkalk of Late Devonian Germany.

Reconstruction of the clymeniid ammonites Parawocklumeria paradoxa and P. patens, from Late Devonian Germany.

A species of arthrodire placoderm from the late Devonian of Morocco. This trout-sized predator ate other fish and held them in place with pronged tooth plates.

Devon flag with map

A massive armored fish from the Devonian period, happily swims through the warm shallow seas.