Ranjeev Epa PhD

Pink Sapphire

Beautiful blue sapphire

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Laevistrombus canarium with a gorgeous worm tube

Wow! Thank you so much 😊 😊
They make beautiful tubes

Much more clearer...

For #wormwednesday, here is a
beautiful collection of encrusters ...
#Bryozoans #spirobid? worm tubes and a petal like #foraminifera all preserved thanks to a cool clam 😄

Pink Sapphire

My dad wants me to get into gemology and gave me a few samples to get my eye in. At present, I can confidently differentiate clams with Sapphires 😄

Blue Sapphire

Botryoidal chalcedony?

Please do come! We have so many yummy varieties... 😊😊

Garnets...

Hello
Does anyone have access to the description of the bivalve Alaona ( Tellinidae) M. Huber, Langleit & Kreipl, 2015?
Thank you 🙏

Cute little foram from Negambo, Sri Lanka
#foraminifera
#foramsofsrilanka

Happy #FossilFriday and #ForamFriday
Check out these beautiful #fusulinids found on a bench in downtown #Columbia #Missouri #indexfossil #foraminifera
#urbanpaleontology

Happy #molluscmonday
Well not a mollusc but a mollusc made product.
#pearls can form as a response to an intruder, a parasite a sand grain etc. I believe this is a #boroque pearl
So here is one more reason to appreciate cool molluscs

Moon snails typically hunt infaunal prey which makes me think that this abnormally placed drill hole may have something to do with it... Also the shell is highly inequilateral...
#noetiidae
#oichnus
#snailsnack

Here is an interesting situation. So this noetiid clam, #Shelldonella lateralis, byssally attached living under rocks/crevices, has been drilled by a #moon snail.

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Happy #molluscmonday
Check out this absolutely amazing #slippersnail , #Ergaea walshi

#gastropoda
#Calyptraeidae
#molluscsofsrilanka

Here is a beautiful strombid, #Lambis from Sri Lanka
#strombidae
#molluscsofsrilanka

That's the best thing ever 😂😂😂

Happy #fossilfriday
Here is a very cool #parsitic #platycerid gastropod. I remember my advisor used to call them poop snails 😂

😂😂 lovely bag to take to the beach to collect more clams

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Happy #molluscmonday
Here is a beautiful crassatellid, #Crenocrassatella rostrata from Sri Lanka. The radials are super faint!!!
#crassatellidae
#molluscsofsrilanka