proud worm dads!!!

context: TimJim as lobopodians. Timmy=Diania cactiformis, Jimmy=Luolishania longicruris. Lobopodians *could be* the ancestors to Tardigrades. and the episode "Moss Piglets" is all about Tim and Jimmy teaching tardigrades to dance <3

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Collinsium ciliosum was a genus of lobopodian from the early Cambrian.

(Credit Satoshi Kawasaki)

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join the winning team, see how lobopods are the real main characters in the story of life

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I study animals from the Cambrian, so they’re my go-to subjects. Particularly animals known as Radiodonts and Lobopods (Hallucigenia, Opabinia, Anomalocaris, the whole gang)

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and almost Cambrian dead wet bugs (megacheirans, radiodonts, gilled lobopodians and lobopodians)

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'#lobopodian'
/Hallucigenia sparsa
/Thanahita distos
/Facivermis yunnanicus
/Peripatus juanensis (modern onychophoran)

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So on top of the lobopodian-like sclerites, we have paired stubby things underneath these worms - just as lobopodians have walking legs attached under their sclerites. Here's a 3D reconstruction of the little stubs underneath the sclerites of Tabelliscolex:

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オパビニア レガリス
regalis
ウリューアン期
カナダ
体長7cm
海産

基盤節足動物 stem-#Arthropoda
"鰓のある葉足動物"
オパビニア科

旧解釈
無甲類

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Hope you’re all having an okay week. Here’s your occasional reminder that large marine lobopods survived for a long time after the Cambrian - Tully Monsters would have lived alongside some of them. Put more lobopods in your non-Cambrian paleoart, there’s my recommendation.

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Never enough Lobopods. Honorary Omnidens, and one of my personal favs, Rhombocorniculum

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Can we appreciate how snuck a lobopod (onychophoran) into the background of my commissioned soldier fly larvae to menace it?

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Results from the special
Enchoteuthis, Ainiktozoon, Megalodon, Eoarthropleura...

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The Essex Biota of the Mazon Creek Lagerstätten, during the Carboniferous period. Tullimonstrum gregarium, better known as the Tully Monster, preys upon the marine lobopodian Carbotubulus waloszeki, a close relative of Hallucigenia.

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Thanks!! I wanted to depict a gut (based on this lobopod diagram) but it's still a little blurry here... at least it looks cool 😄

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Results from the
Omnidens, Rutiodon, Aegirocassis and Incisivosaurus.
I'm not happy how the Rutiodon turned out, shame on me.

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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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mostly Lobopods. Compiling illustrations of every species for a larger project.

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This one is close to the base of the Lobopod tree. It’s probably from the group that heavily specializes their frontal appendages, but not for raptorial purposes; the “nodes” on the back of Hadranax also puts it alongside Xenusion; quite basal.

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