

Another quick piece of Paleoart, this time a new gigantic anomalocaridid from the Ordovician of Morocco. With maybe 2m in length it's among the largest members of its group, only Anomalocaris itself reached maybe a similar size. In addition it's the second known filter feeding anomalocarid.
The paper is available here:
The paper is available here:
Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps
- Peter Van Roy,
- Allison C. Daley
- & Derek E. G. Briggs
All the best,
Joschua
here the link to the first blog-post. www.wildprehistory.org/novinky…
Cheers
Matus
As soon as the posts are ready, I will send you a link.
Cheers
Matus
Looks very nice
Awesome reconstruction. I like yours better than the one from the paper.
And I hope to see your version soon, your cambrian lifeforms are always so
colorful and creative compared to most other stuff out there!
(I did speculated about parasitic anomalocaridid a while back: the-episiarch.deviantart.com/a… but I don't expect them to be found any time soon - if ever)
Maybe we found already a parasitic anomalocaridid
but lack the information to recognize it as such.
But you can't have everything
Then again, these creatures surprise science all the time. I still remember when they found one in Devonian strata long after their disappearance from the fossil record in the Cambrian.