Product Description
Our Anomalocaris measures 3 7/8 inches long and is made of flexible plastic. Our Anomalocaris is detailed and orange in color, but its actual hue is unknown since scientists only have information from fossil records of the Cambrian Period. Check out our Cambrian Period and other extinct animal replicas, toys, and gifts.
Anomalocaris ("abnormal shrimp") is an extinct genus of anomalocaridid, a family of animals thought to be closely related to ancestral arthropods. Anomalocaris is thought to have been a predator, one of the first to evolve on Earth. It propelled itself through the water by undulating the flexible lobes on the sides of its body. Each lobe sloped below the one more posterior to it, and this overlapping allowed the lobes on each side of the body to act as a single "fin", maximizing the swimming efficiency. Anomalocaris had a large head, a single pair of large, compound eyes on stalks comprising approximately 16,000 lenses, and an unusual disk-like mouth.
