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An illustration of a muddy bottom community.

Picture
Illustration © Emily S. Damstra, shown here with artist's permission.
This amazing illustration, featured in the Silurian Experience book, was drawn by science illustrator, Emily Damstra, (emilydamstra.com). You can read her blog postings and stay caught up with her at: https://emilydamstra.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/update-on-silurian-mural-at-giants-rib-discovery-centre/



This illustration is part of a six-foot-by-four-foot mural of  the Silurian environment in Southern Ontario and is now on display at the Giant’s Rib Discovery Centre in the Dundas Valley Conservation Area, Ontario, Canada. 

The Centre is open on weekends from 10 AM to 3 PM.


You can see this whole panel here at:
http://www.giantsrib.ca/wp-content/uploads/Ancient-Seas-panel-web.jpg 

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  • Home
  • Unique Specimens
  • Research News
    • Graptolite Update
  • The Caleb Quarry
    • Stratigraphy & Paleoenvironments
    • A Silurian Environment Illustration
    • Quarry Stratigraphy
  • Classic Photos
    • Classic Trilobites
    • Classic Cystoids
    • Classic Crinoids
    • Classic Conulariid
    • Classic Bryozoan
    • Classic Worm Tubes
  • Quarry Fauna Record
    • Coral (3)
    • Bivalves (2)
    • Bryozoan (15)
    • Brachiopods (26)
    • Gastropods (5)
    • Cephalopods (5)
    • Conulariids (4)
    • Graptolites (8)
    • Worm Tubes (4)
    • Machaeridian Worms (1)
    • Edrioasteroid (2)
    • Starfish (3)
    • Brittle Stars (2)
    • Coronoidea (1)
    • Crinoids (14)
    • Cystoids (3)
    • Trilobites (11)
    • Incertae Sedis (uncertain group) (3)
    • Ichnofossils (trace fossils) (4)