Geopetal | Paleontology and Geology Patterns

  • Metasequoia Pattern

    by Meaghan Wetherell

    One of my newest patterns features an incredible plant found in fossil localities across the world from the Cretaceous through 15 million years ago - and then it disappeared so completely that it was described first as a FOSSIL before it was described as a living plant.

  • New product - Scrunchies!

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    That's right, the cutest fashion item from the 90's now is available with the cutest fashion elements from all of prehistory!

  • New product - kid's clothing!

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    You've been asking and it has finally arrived - two of my most popular designs are now available in kids sizing!

  • Sneak Attack SciComm

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    Part of the goal of this brand is to get amazing paleontology designs out there for the general public to see. But a lot of the designs I make are ...
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  • Trilobite Paintings

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    I don't know what your thing was during quarantine, but for me... I tried (and failed) to make my own cheese, and I also painted a lot of trilobite...
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  • Spiral Trilobite Design

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    Ampyx priscus is a strange little Ordovician trilobite. In Morocco, you find them in clusters of dozens of individuals - but often, these are less ...
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  • Details of the Priapulid Paisley

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    For a paisley print to look really nice, it is helpful to have smaller elements to intersperse between the bigger pieces. For my Priapulid Paisley ...
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  • Priapulids: Predatory Fossil Worms

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    A priapulid is a worm - they live today, and we have body fossils of them going all the way back to the Cambrian 540-some million years ago. These ...
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  • DiNopeASaurus

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    If you know anything about dinosaurs, you know that there are a lot of things that people call dinosaurs that are, in fact... not dinosaurs. In fac...
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  • What is Diplocaulus?

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    Diplocaulus is an amphibian-like animal from the Permian (300-251 mya) known for its distinctly boomerang-shaped skull. This 3-foot long salamander...
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  • Kansas Cretaceous Paisley

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    The Western Interior Seaway was an shallow seaway that split North America in half during the Cretaceous. I've made a Paisley print out of some of its residents.

  • Be a Better Model Than My Mother

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    Introducing a competition to be a better model than my mother, which is really really easy.