Another pattern of invertebrates for #InverteFest2024 but this time from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 to 485.4 million years ago). This pattern is made from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers. The spiky handprinted Wiwaxia, a soft-bodied animal covered in scales & spines lived in the early & middle Cambrian period and fossils are found worldwide, including in Canada’s Burgess Shale.
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The fossils of this unmistakable 5-eyed Opabinia, (with eyes on stalks, no less) a soft-bodied 7 cm long animal are found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale Lagerstätte (505 million years ago). Opabinia likely caught prey with the grasping claws on the end of its long tubular proboscis (like an elephant’s trunk).
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