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Anomalocaris
Temporal range: Early to mid Cambrian
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Image of the first complete Anomalocaris fossil found, residing in the Royal Ontario Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
(unranked):
Panarthropoda
Phylum:
Lobopodia
Class:
† Dinocaridida
Order:
† Radiodonta
Family:
† Anomalocarididae
Genus:
† Anomalocaris

Whiteaves 1892
Species
  • A. briggsi
  • A. canadensis
  • A. pennsylvanica
  • A. saron

Anomalocaris ("abnormal shrimp") is an extinct genus of anomalocaridid, which are, in turn, thought to be closely related to the arthropods. The first fossils of Anomalocaris were discovered in the Ogygopsis shale by Joseph Frederick Whiteaves, with more examples found by Charles Doolittle Walcott in the famed Burgess Shale.

Images for kids

  • Anomalocaris canadensis size comparison

    Size of Anomalocaris compared to an average-sized human hand

  • 20191203 Anomalocaris canadensis

    Reconstruction of Anomalocaris canadensis, showing multiple head sclerites and setal blades run across the dorsal trunk region.

  • 20191221 Radiodonta frontal appendage Anomalocaris

    Frontal appendages of Anomalocaris, with examples from four different species.

  • Anomalocaris2019

    Reconstruction of Anomalocaris canadensis.

  • Anomalocaris magnabasis

    Reconstruction of Anomalocaris magnabasis.

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