Titanokorys gainesi, a sea creature that was half a metre in size was a giant among others that lived around the same time, 500 million years ago
gen. et sp. nov ... All specimens are housed at the Royal Ontario Museum , Invertebrate Palaeontology section .”
The fossil derives its name from “Titans, a group of powerful Greek deities of great sizes, in reference to the large size of the central carapace element and from the Greek word Korys meaning helmet; gainesi, after Robert R. Gaines, Professor of Geology at Pomona College, who first joined the ROM-led field expeditions in 2008 as a research collaborator.
According to the news release, it is not clear why some radiodonts evolved such a “bewildering” array of head carapace shapes and sizes; however “the broad flattened carapace form in“These enigmatic animals certainly had a big impact on Cambrian seafloor ecosystems. Their limbs at the front looked like multiple stacked rakes and would have been very efficient at bringing anything they captured in their tiny spines towards the mouth.
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