tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post7533120118949553765..comments2023-06-14T21:50:15.221+10:00Comments on Ediacaran: Palaeoporn 24Chris Nedinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06978886926715669724noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-88823958042735887942012-03-07T18:09:01.366+11:002012-03-07T18:09:01.366+11:00See the lines around the outside of the specimen p...See the lines around the outside of the specimen pictured at the start of the piece? In some specimens those lines run right across the specimen and were though to represent an interlocking covering for the animal, but one that is open as the individual elements are not fused together.Chris Nedinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06978886926715669724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-48196454602686431062012-03-07T15:19:14.836+11:002012-03-07T15:19:14.836+11:00What is an "interlocking open lattice cover&q...What is an "interlocking open lattice cover"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-86973291422773832672012-03-04T12:56:29.528+11:002012-03-04T12:56:29.528+11:00The lophophore link was suggested because some Tri...The lophophore link was suggested because some Tribrachidium fossils were found with an interlocking open lattice cover. If you remove one of the three central elements and fuse the cover you end up with a lophophoreChris Nedinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06978886926715669724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-71810496001814361952012-02-09T23:06:26.864+11:002012-02-09T23:06:26.864+11:00Hmmm... I can see the superficial resemblance to c...Hmmm... I can see the superficial resemblance to cyclocystoids and edrioasteriods, and I guess the radial symmetry is suggestive of cnindarian rugosid body form, but why lophophore?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-37136108390179666172011-12-03T21:23:03.597+11:002011-12-03T21:23:03.597+11:00And what is your favourite explaination?And what is your favourite explaination?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-27436501743628512652011-11-03T10:31:39.378+11:002011-11-03T10:31:39.378+11:00It still blows my mind you can look a 400 million ...It still blows my mind you can look a 400 million year old organism straight in the "face" though still it couldn't be more alien to me... Moar Palaeoporn plzzzz!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com