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Anomalocaris
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Anomalocaris
Anomalocaris
("abnormal shrimp") is an extinct genus of
anomalocaridid
, a
family
of animals thought to be closely related to ancestral
arthropods
. The first
fossils
of
Anomalocaris
were discovered in the
Ogygopsis
Shale by
Joseph Frederick Whiteaves
, with more examples found by
Charles Doolittle Walcott
in the famed
Burgess Shale
. Originally several fossilized parts discovered separately (the mouth, feeding appendages and tail) were thought to be three separate creatures, a misapprehension corrected by
Harry B. Whittington
and
Derek Briggs
in a 1985
journal article
.
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