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.[2] 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.[2][3]
Category:Animals
Category:Creatures
Category:Cambrian arthropods
Category:Burgess Shale fossils
Category:Maotianshan shales fossils
Category:Anomalocaridids
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1892
Category:Taxa named by Joseph Frederick Whiteaves
Category:Cambrian genus extinctions
Category:Wheeler Shale
Category:Emu Bay Shale
Category:Paleozoic life of the Northwest Territories