#ottoia

[justgoji]

Gerrothorax, Pterygotus, Pikaia, Enchodus, Hallucigenia, Arganodus, Tullimonstrum, Haimirichia, Hibbertopterus, Amiskwia, Opabinia, Hyphantoceras, Ottoia, Tiktaalik, and Cameroceras! Not to scale.

Honestly if I knew I was gonna add so many for this one I would’ve made more room

[funcambrianfacts]

fun cambrian fact #22

im running out of facts so im reposting this fuck ass penis worm. thats right cambrian era had penis worms #awesome

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

Last post from 2020. Here's "The Early Worm Catches the . . . ", showing a monster Ottoia ambushing some Cambrian critters. This fossil is discussed in Locked in Time, by Dr Dean Lomax.

[ninebaal-ex]

Lil Freax [437 - 442]

[252mya]

This Hawaiian shirt features more than 20 of your favorite creatures from the Cambrian explosion! Design by Caroline Fleet of Soft Biology. sulc.us/cambrianshirt

[topquarkintown]

A while back I was joking about making a Burgess Shale themed 16-bit video game, but it is a joke no more!

Stay tuned for...The CAMBRIAN X-PLOSION, a totally tubular surfing game about turbidity currents, the mechanics of fossilization, and the food chain of the Burgess Shale biome.

[aquaticpaleo]

i want to go back in time to the cambrian explosion

i will use segmented lobes for motion and have 5 eyes for sight. i would swim all night while rapidly diversifying with my fellow species. i’ll have trilobites every day that’s worth using my newly evolved sight to hunt. i would go to the sea floor every night. i am also more likely to meet anomalocaris, opabinia, ottoia, and wiwaxia.

i wish i was living 508 million years ago :(

[moszeuchreets]

There has been a lot of big and dinosaur lately, but I thought it would be interesting to once again go to the Cambrian period, 508 million years ago. Ottoia was a worm that scavenged and hunted on mollusc-like animals in the ocean during this time. Seriously, I just thought this was interesting just by its appearance alone. It would be interesting if someone made this into a Pokémon Image source: https://prehistopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Ottoia?file=C5K-1YPUYAAF0qU.jpg

Edit: The artwork was made by Nobu Tamura: https://twitter.com/paleofan?s=20