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Proa, Cordatocaris (new radiodont), Colobomycter and Baptornis

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I do paleoart, mostly cambrian stuff like lobopods and radiodonts, but I also do a bit of horror art on the side. You can see a bit of that influence sleep through into the black/white/red Omnidens.

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Happy We still don’t know how Radiodonts reproduced, but it probably started (at least in some species) during mass-moulting events, when large numbers of them got together to moult. See fossils of for example. (1/2)

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Speculative parasitism in prehistory:
- Parasitic radiodontids
- Parasitic trilobites
- Cleaning symbiosis in placoderms
- Condonts infected with tapeworm larvae

https://t.co/dZP27pb68C

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Awesome new paper by Joe Moysiuk and JB Caron describing the "spaceship" radiodontan from the I particularly like the discussion of feeding ecology, supported by beautiful plates of the appendages/mouth: https://t.co/g7hQl8rqFX

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Some extinct arthropods from the clade Radiodonta, which thrived during the Cambrian period.

(Credit: Renato de Carvalho Ferreira)

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