Catalogue of Organisms

An inordinate fondness for systematics

Name the Bug: Fouquieria columnaris

›
Fouquieria columnaris . Photo by Josiah . "But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! For then You will soft...
1 comment:

Name the Bug # 13

›
Been a while since we last had one of these. Anyone care to identify this beastie? Okay, it's a shrub, not a beastie, but you get the id...
6 comments:

Taxon of the Week: Rhaphidophora

›
Rhaphidophora decursiva growing in the Sydney Botanical Gardens. Photo by Tony Rodd . As currently recognised, Rhaphidophora is a large...
2 comments:

A Beginner's Guide to Blastoids

›
No, not that. These (photo by DanielCD ): Blastoids are small but reasonably common Palaeozoic (Silurian to Permian) fossils. The name...
6 comments:

Beginning to Grasp Things (Taxon of the Week: Euprimateformes)

›
Skull of Plesiadapis tricuspidens , from Gingerich (1976). The name Euprimateformes was coined fairly recently by Bloch et al. (2007) fo...
13 comments:

Crinoids of the Open Seas

›
Lateral view of calyx of Saccocoma tenella from Brodacki (2006) showing the emergence angle of the arms. Living crinoids can be divided ...
3 comments:

Prototaxites: A Giant that Never Was?

›
Reconstruction of Prototaxites as columnar perrenial fungus from Hueber (2001), painted by Mary Parrish. Nearly two years ago , I presen...
43 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.