Hallucigenia
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Hallucigenia
- Continent
- North America, Asia
- Group
- Invertebrate
- Period
- Cambrian
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Length
- Tiny (under 1 m)
- Moves
- Crawls
- Feature
- Spikes
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Its name comes from the word hallucination, because it looked so strange and dreamlike.
- Scientists first drew it upside down, with head and tail swapped, walking on its spines.
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Similar creatures
- Ammonite
Ammonoidea
Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q132406 · All prehistoric life · All entries