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Been too busy to write long posts 😥 Some of you may already have heard, but let me introduce a remarkable new discovery from Greenland; #Nektognathus evasmithae, a new species that helps restore the rightful place of nectocaridids in the tree of life: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Remarkable fossils found in North Greenland have helped researchers solve a 500-million-year-old puzzle surrounding squid-like ancestors. newswise.com/articles/ancie… #fossils #paleontology

Doodles from yesterday's flocking #paleostream featuring Palaeocampa, Nektognathus, Wudingloong, and Mirasaura.

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#Cambrian #illustraion #Nectocaris #古生物 #イラスト 謎生物、ヤムシの仲間であると判明！ ティモレベスティアやアミスクウィアに近いみたいだぞ！

Our phylogenetic analysis places Palaeocampa among the Aysheaiids (the classic Burgess Shale animal Aysheaia being its namesake), a group of poorly known lobopodians known from the Cambrian and Ordovician. Palaeocampa is the only known aysheaiid to possess a sclerite armature.

Meet Palaeocampa anthrax, a newly discovered Carboniferous lobopodian, and 150 year old mystery fossil! Palaeocampa is an exceptional lobopodian - it lived in rivers and lakes, bristled with thousands of poisonous spines, and more. 🧵 Open access: nature.com/articles/s4200…

Palaeocampa anthrax, a fossil worm first described from Carboniferous rocks in 1865 as a caterpillar, is redescribed as a freshwater aysheaiid lobopodian with a unique sclerite armature and probable chemical defences, according to a paper in @CommsBio. go.nature.com/3TSRrbP

Using some paper of early Chaetognatha and other data, I made a simple figure to describe their affinities. The upper part is referred to the latest phylogenetic analysis by Vinther J, et al., and the part of the crown group is from the website Onezoom.

A fossilized ventral ganglion reveals a chaetognath affinity for Cambrian nectocaridids [Nektognathus evasmithae gen et sp. nov.] science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Today’s #paleostream flocking! Mirasaura, Palaeocampa, Nektognathu and Wudingloong

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My sketches for #paleostream of @JoschuaKnuppe 20 minutes each one 1 - Palaeocampa 2 - Nektognathus 3 - Wudingloong 4 - Mirasaura

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Excited to say that there will be a groundbreaking new lobopodian discovery will be published very soon, and I think it will change what we think we know about Paleozoic ecosystems. Stay tuned.

Houcaris consimilis (=Ramskoeldia consimilis) is a Lower Cambrian predatory radiodont from the Chengjiang Biota. #radiodonta #radiodont ⁠⁠#Houcaris #Ramskoeldia #Amplectobelua #Amplectobeluidae #arthropod #arthropoda #lobopodia #paleoart #paleontology #cambrian #art

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@DPadenAkaterry @DivinelyDesined There's lots of cnidarians and ancestors to cnidarians in the precambrian. Cnidarians are like jelly fish, corals, stuff like that. Some examples include autotalumina, haootia, ichnusa, mamsetia, persimedusites, staurinidia, vendoconularia, veprina, and zolotytsia. (2/?)

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Fantastic new animation and video inspired by our paper on Mosura fentoni. Amazing to see it brought to life so vividly. #BurgessShale

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Fantastic new animation and video inspired by our paper on Mosura fentoni. Amazing to see it brought to life so vividly. #BurgessShale

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Cretoperipatus burmiticus, an equatorial velvet worm from the Cretaceous period.

here's today's #Paleostream flocking sketches! today we sketched Vasuki indicus, Camptorhynchus labradorius (Labrador Duck), Mosura fentoni, and Pterodaustro

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Mosura fentoni, a new Burgess Shale radiodont named after the kaiju Mothra. This hurdiid had a specialized abdominal region of the trunk dedicated mostly to respiration, rather than swimming.

New Paper -> Comment on: Omnidens appendages and the origin of radiodont mouthparts Are there really 2 species of Omnidens? I comment on the organization of the mouth of this Cambrian apex predator, and argue there is only one species, Omnidens amplus onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/F…

Introducing Mosura fentoni, a new radiodont from the #BurgessShale. Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… This #fossil species has 3 eyes, spiny claws, wing-shaped swimming flaps, and a unique abdomen-like body region.

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