A hermit crab of Holocene time
Could pivot its shell on a dime
Its tracks on a dune
Made the students all swoon
A trace fossil uncommon, sublime.
Monday, January 18, 2010
PaleoLimerick #21: Bahamian Mania
A hermit crab of Holocene time
Could pivot its shell on a dime
Its tracks on a dune
Made the students all swoon
A trace fossil uncommon, sublime.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
PaleoLimerick #20 - Suspensful Feeding
Inoceramus, a bivalve of yore
Had a hinge, but not like a door
Filter-feeding was fine
With sea water like wine
A life habit that beckoned for more.
PaleoLimerick #19 – Ediacaran Ecstacy
Dickinsonia was a bilateral worm
That possessed a soft body, yet firm
In Precambrian seas
It became quite the tease
Not knowing the first thing about germs.
PaleoLimerick #18 – Mesozoic Misapprehension
An ammonite in the Cretaceous ocean
Was filled with the strongest emotion
Her exquisite suture
Preserved in the future
But of extinctions, she had absolutely no notion.
Friday, November 20, 2009
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