#waptia

[deers-and-dogs]

made some little cambrian creature trading cards :] all my favorite guys!!!!!!!!

[ravewing]

sick and tired of inaccurate anomalocaris paleoart ,, decided to take matters into my own hands

[rattus-viridis]

Cambrian wallpapers, just for fun! Who doesnt like like dinosaur shrimps?

[newlabdakos]

Waptia fieldensis

(temporal range: 510-505 mio. years ago)

[text from the Wikipedia article, see also link above]

Waptia is an extinct genus of arthropod from the Middle Cambrian of North America. It grew to a length of 6.65 cm (3 in), and had a large bivalved carapace and a segmented body terminating into a pair of tail flaps. It was an active swimmer and likely a predator of soft-bodied prey. It is also one of the oldest animals with direct evidence of brood care. Waptia fieldensis is the only species classified under the genus Waptia, and is known from the Burgess Shale Lagerstätte of British Columbia, Canada. Specimens of Waptia are also known from the Spence Shale of Utah, United States.

Based on the number of individuals, Waptia fieldensis is the third most abundant arthropod from the Burgess Shale Formation, with thousands of specimens collected. It was among the first fossils found by the American paleontologist Charles D. Walcott in 1909. He described it in 1912 and named it after two mountains near the discovery site – Wapta Mountain and Mount Field, other specimens

Although it bears a remarkable resemblance to modern crustaceans, its taxonomic affinities were long unclear. A comprehensive redescription published 2018 classified it a member of Hymenocarina (which contains numerous other bivalved arthropods) within Mandibulata.

[flatwaterwithalittlefizz]

for the doodle requests - some creatures from the Cambrian explosion!

Cambrian queers -the big anomalicaris, she’s Karen.

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[rattus-viridis]

Im pretty sure I got possessed by the ghost of an anomalocaris last night and I couldnt sleep until I made this pattern so, enjoy,,, some,.,, cambrian shrimps

[mengothemango]

Sorry for not continuing this series BUTTT

Episode 2!!!! Waptia!! Cambrian shrimpo wimpo

if YOU think the colours are off, we currently have no idea what this guys actual colors are and I think that's cool because they could literally be transparent or bright rainbow or this!!

so I just kinda used my imagination and imaged this lil guy as purple guy (also waptia has 8 legs and I'm very sorry I couldn't fit all of them)

anyway scientists should really consider bringing back cool arthropod guys instead of mamoths because THINK ABOUT IT what would we do with a mamoth? like it would be cool but they can't live anywhere in this modern world nowadays with climate change and no good cold places!! They probably don't even taste that good!! BUUUUUTTTT if we bring back THIS SHRIMP, we could uhhh ummm hmm good question