The oral cone of Anomalocaris is not a classic ''peytoia''.
The Cambro-Ordovician anomalocaridids are large ecdysozoans commonly regarded as ancestors of the arthropods and apex predators. Predation is indicated partly by the presence of an unusual "peytoia"-type oral cone, which is a tetraradial outer ring of 32 plates, four of which are enlarged...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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