Happy #InverteFest ! I've done a bunch of watercolours starring invertebrates lately: #Ediacaran organisms washing up on the beach, an #Orthocone descending upon an unsuspecting #trilobite , and #horseshoecrabs and #seascorpions running into one another on the shore. #paleoart

An #Endoceras #orthocone descends upon an unsuspecting #Pseudogygites #trilobite . While they are often reconstructed swimming sideways, recent studies have shown orthocones actually swam upright in the water column, so I drew them more like a claw game, grabbing prey from the sea floor. This specific trilobite species has in fact been found with an orthocone having taken a bite out of it!

#MyArt #Paleoart #ordovician #watercolour