Here’s some wee 330 million year old crinoid ossicles that wonderfully illustrate their five-fold radial symmetry. Nature is awesome 🖤 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

The next open day at Fossil Grove in Victoria Park, Glasgow, is tomorrow (Sunday the 16th July) from 12-4pm! Head along to see this awesome 330 million year old fossilised forest and learn about life in equatorial Scotland during the carboniferous period 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

A goth in her happy place 🖤 Awesome to back at Fossil Grove - a truly spectacular example of an in-situ 330 million year old fossilised forest, right in the heart of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

Current pocket rock - wee piece of carboniferous limestone full of crinoids and bryozoans 🖤 #ScottishFossils

The fossilised remains of these wee jurassic molluscs, including ammonites & bivalves, have lain undisturbed for over 150 million years.. Only to be ripped apart by rough seas & their soft mudstone tomb bored into by modern molluscs (piddocks). Cyclicity in nature is wonderful 🖤 #ScottishFossils #FossilFriday

I love the way these cirri are draped over the stem like wee beads. Crinoid appreciation 🖤 #ScottishGeology #ScottishFossils

I love that every wee piece of this limestone is unique 🖤 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

Fenestella bryozoans 🖤 these colonial invertebrates were important reef forming organisms in the shallow tropical seas that covered parts of Scotland 330 million years ago. They get their name from their intricate meshwork - Fenestella is derived from the Latin fenestra meaning little window. #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

This wee Neuropteris was buried deep underground for ~310 million years until the rise of the coal industry in Scotland. To reach the coal seams vast volumes of rock were extracted & the waste thrown into bing (spoil heaps) which often caught fire - occasionally baking fossils 🔥 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology #FossilFriday

It never gets boring seeing something so delicate and perfect that’s survived for over 300 million years - cute wee Neuropteris 🖤 #ScottishGeology #ScottishFossils

Crinoids are marine animals belonging to the phylum Echinodermata - meaning that they exhibit gorgeous five-fold radial symmetry. Crinoids are still around today but these stalked Carboniferous examples are 330 million years old. Nature is mesmerising 🖤 #ScottishGeology #ScottishFossils

The tropical freshwater lochs of Carboniferous Scotland might sound pretty tranquil.. but they were inhabited by rhizodont fish that could grow up to 7m in length with teeth over 20cm long - this one is a tiny wee baby in comparison 😅 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

Dreamy wee marine invertebrates from Carboniferous Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

Hello, here’s a tooth from an extinct shark known as Petalodus acuminatus - a long lost inhabitant of Scotland’s shallow tropical seas during the Carboniferous period 🖤 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology #Palaeontology

330 million year old perfection - a wee crinoid ossicle that beautifully highlights their five-fold (pentaradial) symmetry. There’s also a tiny fragment of bryozoan in the bottom right 🖤
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Current pocket rock is this wee crinoidal mess 🖤 #ScottishGeology #ScottishFossils

A small selection of early carboniferous marine invertebrate fossils from Fife, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤 #ScottishGeology #ScottishFossils #AllMyPalsAreRocks

Wild that one day these wee Tealliocaris shrimps were having fun hanging out with their pals in an ancient tropical lagoon, blissfully unaware they were about to be fatally buried by sediment.. & now 330 million years later some wee goth is sat admiring them in her living room 🦐 #ScottishFossils #FossilFriday #ScottishGeology