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Laminacaris chimera, a strange intersection between the Hurdiid Anomalocarids and the Amplectobeluids, inhabited the waters of the Chengjiang sea 518 million years ago. Described by @StephenPates, @cambriancritter, and their colleagues in 2018.
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@LikesPterosaurs Here’s a quick drawing of Keresdrakon
Thanahita, essentially meaning “water goddess”, was a very strange Lobopod. Instead of traditional sclerites running down the trunk (one per segment), it had weird shrub-shaped structures that ran down its back. It also had two kinds of claws.
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@LaurieLuckritz @afriendlywhit @kunhm They’re the ancestors of bugs. Modern Lobopods include tardigrades and velvet worms, but their extinct forms include Hallucigenia, Anomalocaris, Opabinia, et cetera. The first image of these four is my reconstruction of Acinocrinus
Meet Cambroraster, a new Hurdiid from the Marble Canyon region in close proximity to the Burgess Shale. This animal is... incredibly weird, even for a Hurdiid. It had a tiny body, a giant, spiked head shield, and very strange appendages.
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Some paleoart of Lacusovagus, an Azhdarchoid pterosaur described in 2008 by @MarkWitton. It lived in the Crato Formation. Follow @LikesPterosaurs if you like pterosaurs, they make some amazing skeletals.
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Tamisiocaris and Phragmochaeta in their natural habitat, about 900-1000 meters below the ocean surface. The only thing we know about Tamisiocaris is what their antennae looked like. All else is up to interpretation.
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“Put Hurdia triangulata through DeepDream on low settings, it’ll stay pretty much the same”
>destroys Hurdia and turns it into a seal looking thing
Also, first illustration of Lobopodian Ecdysis?
@Bonpland @TetZoo @incisorial @PolishPaleo Nope, hadrosaurs are just hadrosaur faced, they don’t look like ducks