“Death and decay in the Pennsylvanian”: A doomed cluster of

“Death and decay in the Pennsylvanian”: A doomed cluster of

“Death and decay in the Pennsylvanian”: A doomed cluster of the sea anemone Essexella is inundated by an underwater sediment avalanche, which kills and buries them. A previously killed anemone lies rotting on the sea floor, while the jellyfish Anthracomedusa and Octomedusa, soon to also be buried, swim above. Artwork by Julius Csotonyi.

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