The Death of Trilobites

More denizens of the prehistoric seas, the Cambrian period this time around.

The large, bizarre creature that is the focus of the picture is "anomalocaris", the "anamalous shrimp". In its day, it was one of the nastiest predators in the sea, and is known to have grown to 2m in length. Which means it probably got even bigger. The anomalocaris is why trilobites had their eyes located on top of their heads, as they were its primary prey. This anamalocaris has swooped in on some trilobites, which are trying to not be dinner- and may in fact make it out with their lives, given the cephalopod in the background, which appears to find anamalocaris tasty-looking. And this is why it's a fantasy, beyond the fact that I'm no palentologist and just trying my best to interpret these critters. In the Cambrian, the cephalopods were first appearing, and had not differentiated into the huge number of species that would start appearing in the Ordovician age- there probably wasn't actually one just like the one in the background until the Ordovician, but then again, there might have been.

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