A 430 million-year-old coral, Halysites, which resembles a tiny chain. A tabulate coral from the Silurian Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, possibly from Wren's Nest, in tropical Dudley 🏖 #FossilFriday ⚒🌏🔬🧪🌊
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Peltopleurids are also neat for having one of the earliest gonopodium examples in a ray-finned fish. This is a modified anal fin in an inferred male individual, by Lombardo (1999).
Reading the old authorities on fly agaric again. Linnaeus named it Agaricus muscarius in 1753; Lamarck moved it to Amanita in 1783. Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), in the Materia Medica: thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/fly-agaric 🗃️ #history #histsci


