#art made earlier this year reposted from my general-purpose blog

[leaping-laelaps-art]

3D reconstruction of Peytoia nathorsti, a sediment-sifting relative and contemporary of Anomalocaris canadensis. Reconstruction mostly based on fossil specimens figured in Whittington & Briggs 1985.

Edit: this reconstruction is incorrect - Peytoia (and other hurdiid radiodonts) likely had two pairs of flaps like Aegirocassis (Van Roy et al. 2015), and a median eye like Stanleycaris (Moisyuk & Caron 2022). See my more recent reconstruction for a view of Peytoia that is more in line with current fossil evidence.