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TAMISIOCARIS
(tam-is-e-o-kar-iss)
meaning: "sieve shrimp"
Named By: A. C. Daley & J. S. Peel in 2010
Time Period: Cambrian, Cambrian Stage 3
Location: Greenland - Buen Formation Formation
Size: Reconstructed to be about 70 centimetres long
Diet: Filter feeder
Fossil(s): Fossils of at least two individuals
Classification: | Arthropoda | Dinocaridida | Radiodonta | Anomalocarida |
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Tamisiocaris (see Latin tamisium, sieve) is an anomalocaridid taxon initially only known from non-segmented great appendages from Sirius Passet. Further specimens revealed that the appendages near their mouths were adapted to filter feed in a manner analogous to modern baleen whales.

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