Tamisiocaris

Tamisiocaris borealis
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Class: Dinocaridida
Order: Radiodonta (?)
Genus: Tamisiocaris
Daley & Peel, 2010
Species: T. borealis
Binomial name
Tamisiocaris borealis
Daley & Peel, 2010

Tamisiocaris (see latin tamisium, sieve) is an anomalocaridid taxon initially only known from non-segmented great appendages from Sirius Passet. [1] Further specimens revealed that the appendages near their mouths were adapted to filter feed in a manner analogous to modern baleen whales.[2]

References

  1. Allison C. Daley & John S. Peel (2010). "A possible anomalocaridid from the Cambrian Sirius Passet lagerstätte, North Greenland". Journal of Paleontology 84 (2): 352–355. doi:10.1666/09-136R1.1.
  2. Jakob Vinther, Martin Stein, Nicholas R. Longrich & David A. T. Harper (2014). "A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian". Nature 501: 496–499. doi:10.1038/nature13010.
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