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Weird Jurassic crustaceans had Silurian ancestor

30-09-2014 6:41pm

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http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/381370/scitech/science/these-dinosaur-era-crabs-were-just-eyeballs-with-legs

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This one is weird ideed

The unique morphology of thylacocephalans is perhaps best reflected in Clausocaris lithographica (pictured below), a 150-million-year-old thylacocephalan from the Jurassic period. Discovered in Solnhofen, Germany, C. lithographica has been described by researchers as an “eyeball with legs” due to its rather odd physical features.

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