# thylacocephalans protozoea mayrocaris paleoart paleontology mesozoic fossilinvertebrate fosilfishart sciart 嚢頭類 南三陸 三畳紀 化石 古生物

Appearently no one made a fossil Pokémon based on the newly discovered thylacocephalan sussocaris found in Sussex which used its claws to dig up worms
https://t.co/PvcpPk0lSl

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2023-02-18

Thylacocephala Sussucaris paleoart doodle.

a recently discovered Thylacochalan from Sussex England.

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2023-02-17

two fishes and one thylacocephalan from the Moroccan Thylacocephalan Layer.

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2022-10-21

Ainiktozoon

An odd and mysterious animal known from specimens as long as 24 cm, recent studies believe it to be a thylacocephalan crustacean

ALT: Earlier studies where possibly looking at it upside down, and believed it to be a chordate that convergently evolved a compound eye

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2022-01-06

Cladoselache is great and all, but thylacocephalans are seriously wild. An extinct class of predatory arthropods w/ enormous eyes, known from Ordovician to Cretaceous. Here's amazing material of the Jurassic Dollocaris, w/ reconstruction by Andrey Atuchin https://t.co/6IULVFlvYg

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2021-12-25

Convexicaris

Odd even for a thylacocephalan, this 5 centimeter creature has larger eyes and appendages than those usually seen in other members of its family

ALT: even with the large shell its likely that they swam using small swimming legs or pleopods under its shell

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2021-09-30