Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Lyrarapax

Lyrarapax was a Precambrian Dinocarid (terrible shrimp) whose relationship to other animal life is still murky. Recent studies link it to Velvet Worms, a bizarre group of animals that live in South America. 









2 comments:

  1. Actually, Lyrarapax is from the Cambrian era, not Precambrian. Many bloggers get those mixed up.

    The real animal was probably more streamlined, and soft-bodied rather than fully armored, but your reconstruction looks very interesting nontheless.

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  2. I do always mix up Precambrian and Cambrian. Not sure If i'm depicting hard shell, or a sort of rubbery segmentation. The fringes were my speculation of gills.

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