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INVERTEBRATE GALLERY (Upload#2)

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  From left to right on each line; * A grasshopper from the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey * An approximate application of the golden ratio in a spiral mollusk shell * A generic trilobite illustration (Paleozoic Era) * A pill bug from the isopod suborder of Oniscidea * Spriggina floundersi (Late Ediacaran Period, Neoproterozoic Era, approx. 555 Ma) (position on the phylogenetic tree of animals is uncertain) * Mopalia muscosa (the mossy chiton, N. American Pacific Coast, marine mollusk inhabiting the intertidal zone) * Orthoceras (an extinct nautiloid cephalopod from the Middle Ordovician Period, 470-458 Ma) * the Nautilus