Prehistorica (Christian M.)さんのイラストまとめ

Here’s the terrifying eversion process, as demonstrated by the smaller (but still huge) Pambdelurion, “the all-loathsome one”

I hit 2000 followers! In honour of that, here’s a visual demonstration of the ‘eversion’ of a Gilled lobopodians mouth (Vinther et al, 2016). In this case it’s the king of the Lobopods, Omnidens amplus, feeding on several Paucipodia.

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@origamiPete We know for certain that it had 7 spine pairs and seven walking leg pairs.

The Thylacine went extinct in 1936 when the last known individual died in a cage at a zoo. It is also known as the Tasmanian tiger, once native to Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. I’m not sure if I can really tag this one under paleoart, but whatever

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@origamiPete @JoschuaKnuppe Ramskoeldia is one of the largest Amplectobeluids we know of, it could get up to around 50 centimeters long if you include the streamers on the tail. Got kicked out of North America by Anomalocaris magnabasis.

For my first post on this #FossilFriday, the fantastic appendages of Anomalocaris magnabasis! Unlike Anomalocaris canandensis, A. magnabasis had a bunch of thin “spinules” projecting from the front side of each spine, used to help snare soft prey.

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A redraw of “Hurdia megamouth”, an as of yet undescribed species of Hurdiid currently being worked on. As my personal nickname for it suggests, it’s mouth was massive. Excited for the description.

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While scowering the ocean silt of Marble Canyon, a lone #Cambroraster is suddenly surprised by the appearance of Zacanthoides, a trilobite that had quickly emerged from the silt and attacked the Hurdiid.

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@dolevfabrikant Predation on Anomalocarids is hardly speculative. We have one fossil which either shows part of the (very) dangerous appendage of Omnidens, or, a chunk of Anomalocarid in the mouth of Omnidens. Either way, it must have eaten Anomalocarids.

(Its in the bottom illustration)

The Burgess was home to several genera of Hurdiid anomalocarids, which survived by filtering food out of the fine silt, brine seeps, and water column, using comb-like frontal appendages. These include Peytoia, Stanleycaris, two species of Hurdia, and Cambroraster elsewhere.