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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 20m

Rudists are some of my favorite extinct forms of life. Bivalves which wanted to become corals, while growing to the size of small tree trunks. 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 23h

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime & #Arachtober ! And here are the drawings of the second week of #Spideroctober, with a quick sheet for each species after the 2 main pages! Next update for the drawing challenge next sunday! #spider #sciart

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 23h

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've been severely lacking in my #arachtober duties, so I thought I'd finish what I left halfway last year - an A to Z of arachnid genera. @arachtober.bsky.social A for the inimitable Argyroneta (Argyronetidae), the only spider known to live an entirely aquatic lifestyle.

A water spider with a brown carapace and grey abdomen faces the camera

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And to end today's topic, the usual drawing auto-feedback and refs! Thank you for reading & I’ll see you on the next #Cheliceratime! 4/4

Is this paleoart accurate ?
The pose was inspired by the fossil itself, I’m not that much at ease when drawing pedipalpids so I played it safe.

The first pair of legs isn’t preserved, so these ones are based on current mastigoproctines’ proportions.

The pedipalps’ spines follow what’s been observed on the holotype.

Missing details (like the eyes) are reconstructed based on other mastigoproctines.

REFERENCES

· Clouse R.M., Branstetter M.G., Buenavente P., Crowley L.M., Czekanski‐Moir J., General D.E.M., Giribet G., Harvey M.S., Janies D.A., Mohagan A.B., Mohagan D.P., Sharma P.P. & Wheeler W.C., 2017. First global molecular phylogeny and biogeographical analysis of two arachnid orders (Schizomida and Uropygi) supports a tropical Pangean origin and mid‐Cretaceous diversification. Journal of Biogeography 44, p. 2660–2672.

• Dunlop J.A. & Penney D., 2012. Fossil Arachnids. Monograph Series Vol.2, Siri Scientific Press. 192 pp.

· Pinheiro F.L., Kellner A.W.A., Da Silva J.A., Duque R.D.C., Sayão J.M., Araújo E.V., Costa F.R., Buchmann R., Cerqueira G.M., Canejo L., Beccari V., Bantim R.A.M., Holgado B. & Pêgas R.V, 2025. Cretaceous Pterosaurs of the Araripe Basin: A Comprehensive Taxonomic Update and Paleobiological Insights. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 90(1), 70 pp.

• Santana W., Pinheiro A., Silva T.A., Lima D., 2024. Description of a new fossil Thelyphonida (Arachnida, Uropygi) and further record of Cratosolpuga wunderlichi Selden, in Selden and Shear, 1996 (Arachnida, Solifugae) from Crato Formation (Aptian/Albian), Araripe Basin, Brazil. PeerJ 12, e16670, 20 pp.

The ICS international chronostratigraphic chart 2025. Episodes 2025. Online at https://stratigraphy.org/chart

Colorado Plateau Geosystems Inc., 2026.
Global Series. In DeepTimeMaps. Online at https://deeptimemaps.com/map-lists-thumbnails/global-series/

Dunlop J. A., Penney D. & Jekel D. 2023.
A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 23.5.

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now is time to see more in details what this arachnid is all about, with its morphology, phylogeny, importance to vinegaroons' evolution and a lil' focus on the Crato Formation! 3/4

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But, before starting, there's something I'd like to say on the Crato Formation's fossils for #Fossilfriday. #Cheliceratime 2/4

Today's species comes from the Crato Formation, a Brazilian geological formation from which incredible fossils have historically been stoled from Brazilian people by European countries & plunderers. There are many other similar situations like this across the world, paleontology's history is plagued by colonialism & neo-colonialism, but the Crato Formation is one of the more accessible and documented cases to talk about right now.

Crato’s fossils are often seized by customs, and several specimens have been at the center of juridic fights with European museums refusing to give fossils back to local communities & scientists, infantilising them and going against basic human dignity and respect for heritage. Paleontologists have a role to play in all of this, and more & more people act to ensure locals have a central part in all of this.

Mark my freaking word:
FOSSILS & COOL ROCKS WILL NEVER BE WORTH MORE THAN RESPECTING OTHERS.

Science helps us to understand the world, and to do so we always make choices on what we talk about or what we decide to test. Choices affecting others, choices showing how we view human interactions. Political choices. Science has always been political, and it's up to all of us to make it better and not continue to fund human suffering.

And I frankly don't give a sh*t if you disagree. Human lives, basic rights & dignity aren't up to debate. And I'll include something like that in future posts each time it's needed.

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime, #Fossilfriday & #Arachtober ! For this triple occasion, we're talking today about a cretaceous vinegaroon! All the basic infos are here but if you want to learn more, there’s more in the thread below!⬇️🧵 #cretaceous #paleoart #arachnid #sciart #bugsky 1/4

This vinegarroon is one of the few named species of this order from the entire Mesozoic era. It already looks quite modern in every details, and shares a lot of features with the current vinegarrons living in the Americas.

Size : 12-ish cm of body length
Time period : Early Cretaceous
Paleoart speculativometer : Few missing details

The animal drawn is a vinegaroon, an arachnid looking a bit like a scorpion with long thin first legs used as antennae

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Maybe because they don’t want to tell on themselves to THE GOVERNMENT

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Update: because of some outdated (before AI) french law on public services, I can't do shit. And people will still say to let the industry free without any reglementation. My current state:

static.klipy.com

Kaboom: Nuclear Explosion Mushroom Cloud

Alt: Kaboom: Nuclear Explosion Mushroom Cloud

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

if you won’t listen to me, maybe you’ll listen to @lillywachowski.bsky.social because if you actually care about trans people you gotta drop Harry Potter

There is a big "Harry Potter" series coming out on HBO soon and there are many people opposed to it because of J.K.
Rowling's transphobia.
She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support "Harry Potter," you're supporting trans genocide. The money that goes into you enjoying these products, a portion of that money goes to J.K. Rowling and that money goes into her funding anti-trans legislation all over the world. In the same way that if you are against Elon Musk, you boycott or don't buy Tesla; and if you're against global warming/climate change, you try not to buy as much gas, you try to mitigate your use of these products. It's simple math. So, your enjoyment of these shows, and continued support of these shows, is supporting my eradication.

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And to end today's topic, the usual drawing auto-feedback and refs! Thank you for reading & I’ll see you on the next #Cheliceratime! 3/3

REFERENCES

· Klimov P.B., OConnor B.M., Chetverikov P.E., Bolton S.J., Pepato A.R., Mortazavi A.L., Tolstikov A.V., Bauchan G.R. & Ochoa R., 2018. Comprehensive phylogeny of acariform mites (Acariformes) provides insights on the origin of the four-legged mites (Eriophyoidea), a long branch. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 119, p. 105-117.

· Krantz G.W. & Walter D.E., 2009. A Manual of Acarology. 3° Edition, Texas Tech University Press, 816 pp.

· Nutting W.B. & Desch C.E., 1978. Demodex canis: redescription and reevaluation. The Cornell Veterinarian 68(2), p. 139-149.

· Palopoli M.F., Fergus D.J., Minot S., Pei D.T., Simison W.B., Fernandez-Silva I., Thoemmes M.S., Dunn R.R., Trautwein M., 2015. Global divergence of the human follicle mite Demodex folliculorum: Persistent associations between host ancestry and mite lineages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(52), p.15958-63.

ESCCAP. Life cycle of Demodex of dogs and cats. Online at https://www.esccapuk.org.uk/uploads/docs/bbwkmknn_FINAL_Demodex_of_Dogs_and_Cats.pdf

INaturalist, 2026. Demodex canis. Online at https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/262784-Demodex-canis

GBIF - Demodex canis
https://www.gbif.org/taxon/8T4MZ

ScienceDirect, 2026. Demodex canis - An overview. Online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/demodex-canis

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The story of this mite is a bit similar to our own follicle mites, most demodecids sharing similar life history, broad morphological trends, but it can become quite a pain in the *ss for dogs with weakened immune system. #Cheliceratime #Arachtober 2/3

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime & #Arachtober ! And this time we're looking at a companion of dogs, Demodex canis! All the basic infos are here but if you want to learn more, there’s more in the thread below!⬇️🧵 #mite #arachnid #demodex #arthropod #sciart #bugsky #invert 1/3

Just like humans have their own follicle mites, this species completes its entire lifecycle thanks to dogs’ skin. On a dog with a weaken immune system, this mite can cause demodicosis.

Size: roughly 200µm of body length
Time period: Holocene (present day)
Conservation status: Least concern/Near threatened

The animal drawn looks like a worm with 8 stuby legs at the front

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Someone has put my drawings into chatgpt without my consent, just because he didn't like my artistic style. I am beyond disgust, even more due to the fact I've known this person for 2 years. It's the first time I'm faced with this so I don't really know how to proceed, but I'm thinking legal action.

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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.

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Jack Stack @jackstack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hot off the presses! I reviewed the history of early ray-finned fishes, with a focus on their morphology, fossil record, and taxonomy. My principal goal is a guide for other workers to make the rich record of early actinopterygian evolution more broadly available. dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor...

dx.doi.org

The Evolutionary History of Early Ray‐Finned Fishes (Pan‐Actinopterygii)

Ray-finned fishes, the most diverse living vertebrate clade, include over 600 extinct early actinopterygian species whose evolution is an enigma.

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Couldn't be more proud of my dear friend @djigr.bsky.social who just defended their PhD thesis on cyclocephalini beetles evolution, and who's now officialy a research expert on beetles' evolution !🪲💜

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime & #Arachtober ! And here are the drawings of the first week of #Spideroctober, with a quick sheet for each species after the main page! Next update for the drawing challenge next sunday! #spider #sciart

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Tegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dysdera, the woodlouse spiders. #Aractober. Also know as the Baked Bean spider 😁D.erythrina and D.crocata, the one you will most likely come across. The large chelicerae and bright orange/red colour make them very distinctive. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think this is Roncus lubricus, Reddish Two-eyed Chelifer, sieved from decaying woody litter on a woodland floor during today's @kentfieldclub.bsky.social meeting. @vannabartlett.bsky.social #pseudoscorpions

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Docteur Bagarre @docteurbagarre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Si vous pensez réellement que "jamais la violence n'est justifée ohlala la violence c'est mal" vous devriez être vent debout contre la violence de la police depuis 15 ans minimum. Si non, vous êtes juste hypocrite.

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What time is it? It's #Cheliceratime, #Spidersaturday & #Arachtober! And for the beginning of arachtober, let's hop on a world tour of how people say "spider" all around the world! More details in the following slides below with more than 130 languages!⬇️🧵 #spider #linguistic #arachnid #bugsky

THE MANY WAYS TO SAY “SPIDER” ACROSS THE WORLD

A tree below have colorful leaves with many differente words for "spider" (clockwise from bottom left):
عَنْكَبُوت
Spinne
ពីងពាង
माकुरो
hörümçək
ヤテㇷ゚
মাকড়সা
Kevnidenn
거미
ပင့်ကူ
Spider
عنکبوت
Ragno
蜘蛛
ሣሬት
Araignée
ᎧᎾᏁᏍᎩ
սարդ
Pavouk
Merimangë
मकड़ी
Araña

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Part 2 with mostly eurasian tongues, from the indo-european languages to the afro-asiatic, turkic, uralic & mongolic families! Thanks for reading, it was a massive project I was planning for a while, and I'll see you in the next #Cheliceratime! :D #Spidersaturday #Arachtober

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Part 1, after a quick setup we dive in with isolats, minor families, american native tongues, niger-congo languages, austronesian ones and the sino-tibetan lineage! #Cheliceratime #Arachtober #Spidersaturday 2/3

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A bird’s eye view of the fossil record: perspectives on avian systematics by Benito & Steell. Read here: buff.ly/fJattSx This is the latest article in our collection of agenda-setting reviews in the systematics of major fossil groups - with many more articles coming soon! #FossilFriday

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you for this incredible project I discovered so many cool folks with it! On my way to submit for it for the last time then^^

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#InverteFest announcement: The December art book will be our 8th and last edition. We've been doing this since 2024 but my real life responsibilities have changed. We might revive the idea in the future in one form or another, but no promises. If you want in, this is your last chance.

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Sylvain Lapoix @sylvainlapoix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Comment prétendre qu'on s'intéresse à la réussite des enfants quand on les gaze pour débloquer un établissement qui ne marche pas ? Comment feindre l'intérêt pour leur bien-être quand des agents armés et en armure les frappent pour leur empêcher de scander des slogans ?

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Le Tropeur @letropeur.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

« C’est pas en foutant le feu qu’on va vous écouter » Les premiers jours du mouvement lycéen, avant qu’ils brûlent des poubelles, AUCUN GRAND MÉDIA n’en parlait. Si on m’ignore complètement pendant 3 jours, moi aussi je commence à vouloir cramer des trucs pour attirer l’attention.

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Honestly I'm gonna cheat a bit for my sake, I already drew 3 of the 31 species before the challenge xD

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Guillaume D. @gdeleur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reblousque si toi aussi tu n’as jamais tracé une croix gammée avec ton compas sur une table au lycée ou à la faculté.

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Rudy Lerosey-Aubril @cambrianlife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

503 million-year-old leanchoiliid arthropod (Alalcomenaeus sp.) from the Wheeler Formation in the House Range of Utah. Specimen collected by Valentin Jamart.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy spood month, know your spoods #arachtober #InvertebrateShitposting

a doodle in four parts.

top left is a doodle of a jumping spider with massive adorable eyes. text says, a spood.

top right is the butt of a spider that has run off screen. text says, a spood doin' a scoot.

bottom left, a pair of spiders stacked on top of one another, hugging. text says, two spoods doin' a spoon.

bottom right, a spider covered in cloth like a sheet ghost, with speech bubble saying insect populations are experiencing a sharp decline, threatening every part of their food chain, including birbs, spoods, and the agricultural produce they pollinate. the text says a spood doin' a spook.

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And I'll be joining the #Spideroctober challenge of Julien Nowak (instagram) so each Sunday (& Saturday for the 31/10), you'll have drawing only posts of the spiders drawn during the week✏️ Happy Arachtober to all of you, hope you'll like what I have in store for this month and let's have fun! :D✨️

1.Argiope bruennichi
2.Misumena vatia
3.Salticus scenicus
4.Dolomedes fimbriatus
5.Dysdera crocata
6.Araneus marmoreus
7.Segestria florentina
8.Pisaura mirabilis
9.Synema globosum
10.Tegenaria domestica
11.Araniella cucurbitina
12.Pardosa lugubris
13.Mangora acalypha
14.Pholcus phalangioides
15.Zoropsis spinimana
16.Scytodes thoracica
17.Nuctenea umbratica
18.Tetragnatha extensa
19.Xysticus cristatus
20.Evarcha arcuata
21.Larinioides cornutus
22.Steatoda nobilis
23.Meta menardi
24.Amaurobius fenestralis
25.Ctenizia sauvagesi
26.Latrodectus mactans (or L. tredecimguttatus)
27.Argyroneta aquatica
28.Harpactea hombergi
29.Alopecosa pulverulenta
30.Leptorchestes berolinensis
31.Micrommata virescens

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This month, #Cheliceratime will be under the banner of #Arachtober!! :D🕷🕸🦂 For the occasion I prepared an arachnid-only planning, with various groups and cool topics about these critters, the post coming this Saturday 03/10 being a absolutely massive project finally making its way here!📚 #arachnid

IT’S ARACHTOBER! :D

An arachnid-only month to celebrate these wonderful critters, so here’s the planning for this special month on Cheliceratime!

I’ll be joining the #Spideroctober Drawing challenge too, so you’ll have addidtional drawing-only posts this month!^^

03/10 - Linguistics
04/10 - #Spideroctober week 1
07/10 - Mite
09/10 - Vinegaroon
11/10 - #Spideroctober week 2
14/10 - Solifuge
17/10 - Spider
18/10 - #Spideroctober week 3
21/10 - Biogeography
23/10 - Harvestman
25/10 - #Spideroctober week 4
28/10 - Scorpion
30/10 - Surprise group :D
31/10 - #Spideroctober week 5

Happy #Arachtober to all of you, let’s have fun! :D

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime ! Today's entry is one of the most famous eurypterid, Megalograptus ohioensis! All the basic infos are here but if you want to learn more, there’s more in the thread below!⬇️🧵 #arthropod #ordovician #paleoart #eurypterid #sciart #bugsky 1/4

This famous arthropod was one of the biggest eurypterids during the Ordovician period, and its genus was first identified as a graptolite. It’s well-known for the long spines on its second pair of legs and for the semi-lunar shape of its telson.

Size : a bit more than 50cm of body length
Time period : Late Ordovician
Paleoart speculativometer : Almost a carbon copy

The animal drawn looks a bit like a scorpion but without pincers, with instead large spiny arms

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Moth 5/12 - Ashinaga #Art #SciArt

illustration of a dark brown moth with triangular wings going backwards, long legs with fluff that look like baggy jeans, and a pair of long, featherlike antennae in bright red/orange.

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Rhi, drawer of Things @idrawsdinosaurs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A profusion of sketchy #chelicerates! I've become very fond of these this year thanks to @trigonotarbida.bsky.social, all of them are so charming and adorable in their own way!

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And to end today's topic, the usual drawing auto-feedback and (a lot of) refs! Thank you for reading & I’ll see you on the next #Cheliceratime! 4/4

And to end this post, some of you may have already known this eurypterid before, and I clearly wouldn’t be surprised. Megalograptus is one of the most featured eurypterids in pop culture, as it’s been for example on of the basis of the Ark’s eurypterid, or been the first eurypterid showed in a BBC documentary from the 2000s golden age of BBC’s paleo-documentaries. Its singular look isn’t for nothing in its popularity too, as it’s one of the few eurypterids to have a morphology easily identifiable from the eurypterid’s ground body plan and deviating clearly from a scorpion-like look unlike the way more popular pterygotids.

Is this paleoart accurate ?
Apart from some tiny perspective glitches, I think that’s one of the best eurypterids I’ve ever drawn.

I had to redo the entire drawing because I missed the work on the species coloration, so apart from the orangy pattern (‘cause I wanted to give it more depth while still staying within the lines), the coloration is now supposed to match what’s supposed to have been the animal real colors.

A lot of drawings show this animal with folded second pair of legs, so I opened them a bit to give more dynamic to the animal.

REFERENCES
(part 1)

· Caster K.E. & Kjellesvig-Waering E.N., 1964. Upper Ordovician eurypterids of Ohio. Paleontological Research Institution 4, p. 301–342.

· Clarke J.M. & Ruedemann R.., 1912. The Eurypterida of New York. Volume 1 & 2, New York State Museum Memoir 14, 628 pp.

• Lamsdell J.C, 2025. Codex Eurypterida: A Revised Taxonomy Based on Concordant Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 473, 195 pp.

· Lamsdell J.C., Briggs D.E., Liu H.P., Witzke B.J., McKay R.M., 2015. The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa. BMC Ecology and Evolution 15(169), 31 pp.

· Lamsdell J.C., Hoşgör I., Selden P.A., 2013. A new Ordovician eurypterid (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from southeast Turkey: Evidence for a cryptic Ordovician record of Eurypterida. Gondwana Research 23, p. 354–366.

• Schmidt M., Melzer R.R., Plotnick R.E. & Bicknel R.D.C., 2022. Spines and baskets in apex predatory sea scorpions uncover unique feeding strategies using 3D-kinematics. iScience 25(1), 14 pp.

REFERENCES
(part 2)

· Selden P.A., 1984. AUTECOLOGY OF SILURIAN EURYPTERIDS. Special Papers in Palaeontology 32, p. 39-54.

· Tetlie O.E., 2007. Distribution and dispersal history of Eurypterida (Chelicerata). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 252, p. 557–574

· Tollerton V.P., 1989. Morphology, taxonomy, and classification of the order Eurypterida Burmeister, 1843. Journal of Paleontology 63, p. 642-657.

Colorado Plateau Geosystems Inc., 2023 & 2026.
North America & Global Series. In DeepTimeMaps . Online at https://deeptimemaps.com/map-lists-thumbnails/global-series/ & https://deeptimemaps.com/map-lists-thumbnails/north-america/

The ICS international chronostratigraphic chart 2025. Episodes 2025. Online at https://stratigraphy.org/chart

PaleoBiology DataBase, 2026. Megalograptus. Online at https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=18982&is_real_user=1

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And now that the morphological side is done, there's also some things to be said about its classification and paleoecology! #Cheliceratime 3/4

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

First, let's talk about its discovery, morphology and paleoenvironment, and oh boy there are thaings to say ! #Cheliceratime 2/4

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Elisa Rojas @elisarojas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Soutien aux lycéenEs, étudiantEs, aux travailleurs exploités de tous les secteurs et aussi à ceux qui ne travaillent pas, à ceux qui n'ont pas de toit, à ceux qui galèrent pour tout, à tous celles et ceux que la France de Macron a broyé.

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Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#macromonday Bold jumping #spider - Phidippus audax (Shot near Cincinnati 8-14-26) 🕷️🕸️ #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #arachnid #jumpers #jumper #spidersky #ento

A close up shot at the face of a bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax) looking straight at the camera as she clings to a verticals surface on the right side of the photo. Her green reflecting eyes are mainly in focus behind her out of focus pedipalps.

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OamGui @oamgui.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

C'est la merde dans une ferme-refuge que je connais L'agriculteur qui fourni le foin veut augmenter ses tarifs, et le refuge risque de devoir se séparer de certains animaux par peur de ne pas pouvoir les nourrir.... Si vous pouvez donner ou faire tourner www.helloasso.com/associations... Merci 💚

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I feel like one of the most radical, best and most rebelliously good things you can do right now in the informational online space is just....give people credit, love, support and shoutouts. Even if they just inspired you or prodded a thought you built on, name them and thank them loudly.

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