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From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
A section of feeding grasper of an Anomalocaris saron from the Lower Cambrian of Chengjiang, Yunnan, China. -
Hi! After seeing some great paleo art here I thought I'll give it a go. Here's a little drawing I knocked up. Its the first drawing I did since about 6years old. Its only a rough sketch but its supposed to be an Amplectobelua symbrachiata chasing an Elrathia trilobite. I tried to make it is as anatomically correct as I could. Down to the correct number of body segments and grasper podomeres. (the spots are artistic license!)
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From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
This is a great (not quite accurate) model of an Anomalocaris that I got for Xmas. Now when visitors ask "what's that smudge on that rock?", instead of pulling up a pic I can simply show them the model. -
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
Grasper from an Anomalocaris sp. (not yet classified) from the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale of Utah. The biggest predator of its day! -
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
This is part of the grasping appendage and mouth of an Anomalocaris saron from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota. -
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
Different Anomalocaridids grasping appendages. Amplectobelua symbrachiata is "e". -
Trilobite stuck on the end of an Amplectobelua symbrachiata feeding appendage.
ElToro posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
Close up of the trilobite stuck on the end of the Amplectobelua symbrachiata feeding appendage. From Chengjiang. -
Colour modified Amplectobelua symbrachiata feeding appendage with trilobite.
ElToro posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
Textbook Amplectobelua symbrachiata feeding appendage with trilobite stuck on the end. (With colour and contrast changed) From Chengjiang. -
Amplectobelua symbrachiata feeding appendage with trilobite.
ElToro posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
Textbook Amplectobelua symbrachiata feeding appendage with trilobite stuck on the end. From Chengjiang. -
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
My best fossil. The Anomalocaridid, Amplectobelua symbrachiata feeding appendage with a trilobite curiously attached to the end. Amplectobelua predation on trilobites or trilobite predation on a dead Amplectobelua? From Chengjiang. -
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
A beautiful fossil from the Maotianshan Shales at Chengjiang. 515-525my old. It is a mouth of an Anomalocaridid. Species unknown. -
This small fossil is from Chengjiang and was labelled as "Anomalocaris mouth" by seller. He's been wrong before and I'm rather skeptical about that interpretation. Any ideas, anyone?
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From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
Here is a pic of the anomalocaridid, Amplectobelua symbrachiata fossil with me as scale. (Chengjiang, Cambrian, 74mm) -
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
A close up of the podomeres (segments) on the grasper of the anomalocaridid, Amplectobelua symbrachiata from Chengjiang, China. (Cambrian, 74mm) -
Amplectobelua symbrachiata "graspers" with close up of spines
ElToro posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
A close up of the spines on the end of the grasper of the anomalocaridid, Amplectobelua symbrachiata from Chengjiang, China. (Cambrian, 74mm) -
Anomalocaris? Or something else...
ElToro posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
This a great lesson about problems with identification. This is a genuine Cambrian fossil but was identified as "Anomalocaris roulette mouth". Thanks to a member of this forum I was put in touch with Dr Allison Daley from Oxford, a leading Anomalocaris expert from the Burgess Shale. The Doc confirmed to me that it was not Anomalocaris, but Omnidens Amplus, a Cambrian predator worm. I mentioned this to the seller and supplied an article on distinguishing the two, and got the Omnidens for 2\3 price! Love it.
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I recently purchased this from a Chinese dealer (a reputable and knowledgeable dude unlike many from that part of the world). Im fairly certain its an Anomalocaris with some teeth clearly visible. I think the long horizontal impression is one of its graspers. Would like to confirm. Anybody?
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This is my most recent sculpture I have made. I sculpt the original in clay. It usualy takes me a few months to complete a sculpture. When I am happy with the piece, I make a silcone mold of it. With the mold, I am able to cast a model in Urethane plastic. Once it is cast I can clean up the piece and I can airbrush it.
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Link to an interesting article.... Enjoy! Fossils reveal rapid evolution in ancient eyes
