#microbial mat

here's today's #Paleostream flocking sketches!!!

today we sketched Triceratops, Helveticosaurus, Dickinsonia, and Melanorosaurus

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Evolves into Archagaarden With an explosion of life in the surface waters, many sessile organisms would learn to live on the microbial mats of the seabed. Rocks and debris that were caught in the mats would eventually be infested and become Archanytes. When the microbial mats began to disappear halfway through Eohs, Archanytes would be some of the last pieces of solid ground for corals and sponges to live on.

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It’s Kel again! She’s a water genasi (ish) based on the most old-god thing I know, microbial mats! I’ve researched them for years now and I made a way to get botany-style cross sections and they were the most lovely mix of orange, yellow and pink sulfur oxidizing bacteria with soft greens. I have some more notes in the bottom right picture