Anomalocaris
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Anomalocaris
- Continent
- North America, Asia, Oceania
- Group
- Invertebrate
- Period
- Cambrian
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- Tiny (under 1 m)
- Moves
- Swims
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Its name means unlike other shrimp, because its first fossil arm was mistaken for a shrimp.
- Fossil eyes found in Australia show that each eye had more than 16,000 tiny lenses.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q37395 · All prehistoric life · All entries