060220b

under the dome

a riot of vegetation

hungry herbivores pace

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The First Cajuns

some crustacean
known only from its burrows
grew fat under a Paleozoic sun
would have made good eating
if they'd had shrimp-boil spices back then

trace fossil paper now out

Geodinamica Acta, containing my paper about a burrow not made by trilobites after all, is now out. The journal is available in print and digitally. This is a special issue derived from an international meeting on trace fossils that was held in Turkey.

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tgda20/current

Trilobites are not guilty

A trace fossil once thought to have been made by trilobites could not have been.

Bioirrigation in Alph n. igen., arthropod cubichnia from the Mississippian Hartselle Sandstone of Alabama (USA)

David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Andrew K. Rindsberg
Geodinamica Acta
pp. 1-19 | DOI: 10.1080/09853111.2015.1108569