#mimetaster

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the Devonian Hunsrück Slate #Paleostream! 

Look at all these weird little critters!

[styllwaters]

saw your post about accepting art requests. Can you draw the early Devonian marellid arthropod Mimetaster? i think they look cool and weird in a silly way :O

Weirdest normal girl I've ever seen

[kigner]

[screwpinecookie]

Yeah, sometimes I go to France and I see there are performance artists out on the street and I just... Eat them. Some people even call me a

[glolb]

i wish i knew you

[leanyeenmachine]

Mimes think themselves all high and mightly living in their invisible worlds, with their invisble vehicles and houses, they think themselves invincible from all the threats and challenges of the speaking world. But such ego is naive, and lurking in the oceans, forgotten even by time itself lurk the Mimetasters. One day they shall rise up from the depths and no mime will be safe from them, and not even their invisible fortresses and invisible weapons will be able to save them.

From being tasted

[neovenatorgirlteeth]

Ask you about paleontology you say. Do you know why the mimetaster is called that? I can’t figure out any possible explanation for why it is called that.

The name Mimaster means ‘Mimic Star’ or ‘Asterias Mimic’ as far as I can see. The original 1931 paper makes reference to Asterias, a genus of starfish including the North Atlantic Common Starfish, and a great many starfish and superficially starfish-like genera use -aster as a suffix.

However, Mimaster was occupied by a (now defunct) genus of actual starfish, so it was changed to Mimetaster; the alteration of the name does not effectively alter its meaning in this case :)

[extinctworld-ua]

Mimetaster

Mimetaster — девонський мареломорф, відомий із сланців Хунсрюк (Германія), що датуються нижнім девоном та формації Флореста (Floresta Formation, нижній ордовик, Аргентина). Він є найпоширенішим членистоногим (за винятком трилобітів) у цій місцевості, відомий із понад 100 екземплярів, у тому числі три молоді особини. Ймовірно, ці тварини жили невеликими групами.

Повний текст на сайті "Вимерлий світ":

https://extinctworld.in.ua/mimetaster/