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

Here’s a 350 million year old Gyracanthus spine! Gyracanthus is an extinct type of acanthodian fish mostly known from isolated spines - the function of these rigid spines is still debated but it’s thought they may have held the fishes fins in place, or they were used for defence. #ScottishFossils

For #MineralMonday here’s a spirifer brachiopod geode (infilled with calcite) under 365nm ultraviolet light. I love how it’s shaped like a bat, and that the brachidium in cross section looks like a wee heart 🦇🖤 #ScottishFossils

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