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The Waukesha Biota is a Silurian Lagerstätte preserving many soft-bodied organisms, but rarely any hard carapaces. The scene below shows only a part of its rich fauna. (It's my first 3d paleoart scene, and I think it turned out well)

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Despite being one of the most recognizable radiodonts, Schinderhannes bartelsi is probably one of the most challenging radiodont to reconstruct due to being known from one fossil and having such strange morphology.

I also want to mention that despite this being a different take on the organism it is still very clearly Schinderhannes, probably thanks to it's enlarged fins on the first segment.

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Nectocaris pteryx, a relativity famous10 centimeter long creature from the Burgess shale formation. Being an active predator, It would have likely eaten soft-bodied swimming animals like isoxys and Metaspriggina.

Although it's taxonomic grouping has been up to some debate, the resemblance between the recently described Timorebestia and other nectocaridids such as petalilium leads me to believe that nectocaridids could stem-group chaetognaths. (A proper study is required to confirm this!)

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A small pod of the newly described stem-group chaetognath Timorebestia koprii observed at a depth of nearly 400 meters. At a size of over 20 centimetres, it is the largest known gnathiferan.

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Paucipodia inermis, an unarmored 15cm long lobopopodian from the Chengjiang Biota of Yunnan China.

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Reconstruction of Olenoides serratus,

Olenoides serratus is probably one of the most famous trilobites of the Cambrian and possibly the entire paleozoic. Despite historically being depicted as a simple prey animals, these arthropods would be vicious predators to any little worm.

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The giants of a shallow world.

---------------------------------------------------- Ramskoeldia platyacantha is one of the largest known cambrian radiodonts at over a meter in length.

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Contributing to #the little anomalocaris coproliteposting

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My speculative fictional eurypterid Purifundus tripluma Habitat - Bottoms of saltwater bodies Diet- Any food found in the sand on the bottom, including carrion Size- 0.4 meters long, 0.27m leg span This eurypterid is one of the main cleaners of the bottoms of the seas and oceans, it sifts through the sand with its front legs in search of food, the growths on the tip of the legs have stiffened, and the tip of the leg itself has remained mobile forming something like tongs with which it clings to many substrates. It forms a large part of the diet for all species of the Soleocephalis genus. Its gills, located under the segmented "abdomen," have developed enough to allow the animal to come ashore and survive on land for about half an hour in the event of an accident, due to the fact that special sacs have formed under the gills for storing water, excreting it along with the body's waste, and distributing water through tubules on the surface of the exoskeleton. This arthropod has reasonably good eyesight and, if it perceives danger, it bounces off the water and paddles with all its legs, the hind ones making an up-and-down motion, the front ones going out to the sides to push the water away, and the others making a motion similar to that of the paddles in a boat that "spin."