I'd like to highlight a niche paper by Hans Pellmann (2021) that documents branchiopod crustacean aktuo-paläontologie--documenting what happens in the modern world BEFORE fossilization. First, a dried out community of the clam shrimp Limnadia lenticularis (photo b J. Venzlaff). #arthropoda #crustacea #branchiopoda #spinicaudata #conchostraca #taphonomy #fossilization
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I'm going to make #FridayFushunograptids a thing. This week's fushunograptid is Ordestheria multicostata (Chen in Zhang et al., 1976), from the lower Cretaceous of Jilin Province, China.
#branchiopoda #conchostraca #crustacea #arthropoda #clamshrimp