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In Walking With Monsters and other internet pages say that the Anomalocaris could be 6 feet long, but this page says only 1 meter, in addition, on the innaccuracies page of Walking with Monsters, it does not say that this size is an error. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.7.18.66 (talk) 18:11, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oy, Pilcha: Sorry about the Pre-cambrian bit, but I'd like to keep the bit about Anomalocaris being a giant relative to other critters present in the same period. A meter really isn't that fantastic later, but yes, it was certainly the great white shark of the time. And hey (total speculation that will never see print on the main page), maybe that makes Laggania the filter-feeding blue whale? Aderksen (talk) 03:29, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Discussing the size, the first para under "Description" says "Although paper also shows body length estimation of 56 cm (1.84 ft) for genus Anomalocaris, it is size estimation of A. saron which is no longer belong to genus Anomalocaris, and proportion is based on specimen of Innovatiocaris, so it is not suitable body length estimation for Anomalocaris." At least the first part of this sentence is poorly written: "paper shows"? what paper?; "which is no longer belong to" reminds me of "all your bases are belong to us." Unfortunately, I don't know what that is trying to say, so I'm loathe to edit it. Mcswell (talk) 01:38, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
72.134.44.224 20:47, 30 September 2006 (UTC)I'm not very experienced with Wikipedia, but I noticed that two categories were virtually parallel and should have links between each other. The Cambrian Category holds a mishmash of geologic periods, vertebrates and invertebrates. The Prehistoric Arthropods category holds several Cambrian arthropods that are not in the Cambrian category. So, I added several Cambrian invertebrates (some of them of uncertain classification, but it is much easier to find them in one unified category). It might make sense to have a sub-category in Prehistoric Arthropods for prehistoric invertebrates of uncertain classification, or vice versa. To try to make this little post understood so it can be discussed, I will post this in the talk page for Anomalocaris, Anomalocarid, Aysheaia, and Hallucigenia. Hope this helps Wikipedia's support of a nice little-known topic.[reply]
Since the "claw" is the most common fossil evidence (and looks quite different from the fossil of the whole animal), I think it would be useful to add an image of a fossil claw. Mel 128.138.167.212 (talk) 22:35, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The thumbnail sketch currently on the page is a little confusing. Using the link to look at the larger image does demonstrate that this is a shot of the ventral surface of the critter, but the thumbnail makes it difficult to discern whether the peytoia-mouth is the mouth or the second stalked eyeball. Anyone aware of any artist's renderings sketched at a different angle that might help to clarify this, or a better way to display the thumbnail of ArthurWeasley's otherwise excellent image? Aderksen (talk) 16:21, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This article lists Dinocarida as a member of Panarthropoda and Lobopodia. Opabinia and Amplectobelua articles lists it under the pseudophylum Problematica. Anomalocarid article lists dinocardians directly under Protostomia and so on.--JyriL talk 17:36, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In the infobox on the right side, it mentions a different Phlyum from what the article says it is related to in the first paragraph 207.6.125.46 (talk) 00:03, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Could/should this be merged to anomalocarids? By my reading they're virtually identical, but I'm not a specialist. WLU (talk) 17:09, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I will endorse the deletion of this section from the genus page again. The reasons have been discussed before on the family page. Aderksen (talk) 00:31, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've seen two different restorations of Anomalocaris. One is the familiar "body with fins" type, like in Tim Haines' The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life, but there's another, "centipede", version in Prehistoric Life (all of these kinds of books seem to have the same names). As I'm only a beginner with anomalocarids, which is correct? Crimsonraptor (talk) 14:35, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There is ancestors in the ordovician see here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ollyoxenfree (talk • contribs) 23:36, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure what the actual scientific paper is... AnonMoos (talk) 02:36, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Uhh.. the Pokemon Anorith is CLEARLY based on Anomalocaris. That should be here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.117.187.122 (talk) 18:30, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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I came here looking for a figure in Ma, but all it says is "Chengjiang–Burgess shale". And those aren't even wikilinked. (Further investigation shows that these should appear, with links, on the timeline in the Cambrian page, but they don't show up in either of my browsers. I think there may be an issue with the Geological period template... I'll have to leave a comment there.) What's more, after doing some searching I find that the date they first appeared could be 525-520 Maor515 Ma depending on the article. Some reliably sourced figures would be nice. 2.99.206.252 (talk) 01:46, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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