Catalogue of Organisms
An inordinate fondness for systematics
Name the Bug:
Fouquieria columnaris
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Fouquieria columnaris . Photo by Josiah . "But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! For then You will soft...
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Name the Bug # 13
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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...
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Taxon of the Week:
Rhaphidophora
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Rhaphidophora decursiva growing in the Sydney Botanical Gardens. Photo by Tony Rodd . As currently recognised, Rhaphidophora is a large...
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A Beginner's Guide to Blastoids
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No, not that. These (photo by DanielCD ): Blastoids are small but reasonably common Palaeozoic (Silurian to Permian) fossils. The name...
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Beginning to Grasp Things (Taxon of the Week: Euprimateformes)
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Skull of Plesiadapis tricuspidens , from Gingerich (1976). The name Euprimateformes was coined fairly recently by Bloch et al. (2007) fo...
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Crinoids of the Open Seas
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Lateral view of calyx of Saccocoma tenella from Brodacki (2006) showing the emergence angle of the arms. Living crinoids can be divided ...
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Prototaxites
: A Giant that Never Was?
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Reconstruction of Prototaxites as columnar perrenial fungus from Hueber (2001), painted by Mary Parrish. Nearly two years ago , I presen...
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