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Opabinia regalis is an extinct, stem group arthropod found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale Lagerstätte (505 million years ago) of British Columbia. [1] Opabinia was a soft-bodied animal, measuring up to 7 cm in body length, and had a segmented trunk with flaps along its sides and a fan-shaped tail.
Omnidens is found in both the Chengjiang Biota and the Xiaoshiba Lagerstätte of China, putting their age at approximately 520 Ma, during Cambrian Stage 3. [7] O. amplus and O. qiongqii are both known from the Chengjiang, but O. qiongqii is the only Omnidens species present at Xioashiba, where it is found in relative abundance (hundreds of ...
Facivermis was a worm-like creature up to 90 mm long. Its body was divided into three sections. The anterior section had five equally sized pairs of appendages with two setal rows along the margins. The middle section was elongate and five times longer than the anterior or posterior.
A close relative of Hurdia that was originally named as a jellyfish, but was later recognized as the oral cone of the creature. This creature is also known from European deposits. Stanleycaris: Stem-group Arthropoda. Radiodonta: Stanley Glacier; A basal hurdiid radiodont known from a variety of Cambrian deposits in North America.
Despite its odd appearance, the Cambrian creature Odaraia alata—an arthropod whose taco-shaped carapace gives it an otherworldly appearance—is one of those good ideas.
Pages in category "Cambrian animals" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. ... This page was last edited on 5 March 2020, at 15:16 (UTC).
Cucumericrus [3] 1995 Maotianshan Shales: Paranomalocaris [4] 2013 Wulongqing Formation: Ramskoeldia [5] 2018 Maotianshan Shales: Cambroraster [6] 2019 Burgess Shale. Maotianshan Shales. Hurdia [7] 1912 Burgess Shale: Peytoia [8] 1911 Burgess Shale. Zawiszyn Formation. Ursulinacaris [9] 2019 Mount Cap Formation. Carrara Formation. Titanokorys ...
This animal's body was very long, and had extreme segmentation compared to other Cambrian arthropods, with over 100 distinct segments. In total this creature had about 110 pairs of biramous limbs, the most of any Cambrian-aged arthropod. Covering the head of this creature was a large carapace that resembles an arch or other curved structure ...