Tag Archive for 'Radiodonta'

Life reconstruction of Mosura fentoni. Image credit: Danielle Dufault, Royal Ontario Museum.

New Species of Cambrian Radiodont Unveiled from Canada’s Burgess Shale

May 14, 2025 by News Staff

Mosura fentoni lived in what is now Canada during the Cambrian period, approximately 506 million years ago. Life reconstruction of Mosura fentoni. Image...

Life reconstruction of Anomalocaris. Image credit: Katrina Kenny.

Cambrian Radiodont Was Speedy, But Not Strong Enough to Crack Trilobite Shells

Jul 5, 2023 by News Staff

Anomalocaris canadensis — the iconic 60-cm radiodont from the 508-million-year-old Burgess Shale of Canada — is one of the largest Cambrian...

Reconstruction of a pair of Stanleycaris hirpex. Image credit: Sabrina Cappelli, Royal Ontario Museum.

Three-Eyed Cambrian Animal Sheds Light on Origin of Arthropod Head and Segmentation

Jul 11, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum have examined 268 specimens of Stanleycaris hirpex — a radiodont that...

Reconstruction of Titanokorys gainesi. Image credit: Caron & Moysiuk, doi: 10.1098/rsos.210664.

Meet Titanokorys gainesi, Giant Radiodont from Burgess Shale

Sep 8, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described the largest Cambrian hurdiid radiodont known so far, named Titanokorys gainesi, from the Burgess Shale, British Columbia,...

An artist’s reconstruction of ‘Anomalocaris’ briggsi. Image credit: Katrina Kenny.

Cambrian Deep-Sea Arthropods Had Complex Compound Eyes

Dec 4, 2020 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists from Australia and the United Kingdom has found that ancient deep-sea creatures called radiodonts developed sophisticated eyes...

Carnivorous Cambrian Creature Had Rake-Like Claws and Pineapple-Slice-Shaped Mouth

Aug 1, 2019 by News Staff

A new species of marine predator that lived about 506 million years ago (Cambrian period) has been identified from exceptionally well-preserved fossils...