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Published: 2009-05-11 03:36:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 6719; Favourites: 99; Downloads: 0
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Hurdia victoria, the Pencil Sharpener Anomalocarid, found in Mid Cambrian strata throughout the world. It has a weird, hood-like structure on its "snout," the function of which remains unknown.Related content
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Hello it's me again. I would like to show this art in my prehistoric pet project just like the previous ones.
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Β You know, if I were to figure out what the purpose of the hood on Hurdia's head was for, I would presume that it was probably used to help it filter-feed. Β Though i could be wrong, since it still had those mandibles that still could have been capable of crushing and ripping apart smaller arthropods and other invertebrates. Β So, APPARENTLY your guess is as good as mine.
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I'd like to see it used more often.
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I would venture to suggest the groove on the snout could direct plancton towards it's mouth. So it could be a big filter-feeder.
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Except that no comb or sieve-like structures that would mark it as a filter-feeder have ever been found in association with Hurdia fragments.
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How much did it measure from tip to tail? It's so weird.
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Fifty centimeters. It was a monster of its time.
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Well it's pretty big even today.
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It'd make a killing in a fish store.
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I knew you'd make this pretty soon, and I knew it'd look awesome
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Man, just when you think Cambrian life can't get any stranger...
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You'd think so, but....
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Not only do I love the drawing/painting. But. I also love the Animal! I Want A Pencil-Shapener That Looks Like That! 
Amazing!
Awesome!
I Loves It! 
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This was perhaps the more shrimp like creature of that time..
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Aside from the primitive crustaceans and euarthropods it may have preyed up.
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