Cambrian chaos is beginning to open, and the clouds are thick. Three-foot body, steel teeth and iron claws, thousand eyes! Across the ocean, the name of the emperor of the sea!
The original overlord of the earth, the strange shrimp, is worthy of such domineering poetry! But even if it is a generation of sea emperors, there will be a heroic twilight day! Under the impact of environmental changes such as the rise of various emerging animals in the late Cambrian and the Ordovician mass extinction. The former generation of sea king shrimp still did not hold their throne after all! After stumbling for more than 200 million years, he finally disappeared in the formation! Today we will introduce the last odd shrimp - Shende Hans shrimp!
Restoration of the Schender Hans shrimp
As the last remnant of the original earth overlord shrimp odd shrimp, the Schender Hans shrimp lived in the early Devonian period from 407.6 million to 393.3 million years ago, and its fossils were found in the Hunsrück slate biota in Bendenbach, Germany! The golden fossils of the Shendehans shrimp tell a golden legend!
The golden fossil of the Schender Hans shrimp
Diagram of the body structure of the Schender Hans shrimp
As a member of the odd shrimp, the Shandhans shrimp also has a similar body structure to other odd shrimp! It's just that its body size is much smaller than that of the Canadian strange shrimp, the two-limbed monster, the heard shrimp, etc.! After all, it is the end of the hero. The Schendhans shrimp is only 98 mm long, with two large spiny appendages heirloom of strange shrimp, as well as a radial mouth and cute compound eyes! Its body is divided into 12 segments, and between the head and torso and in the area of the 11th segment grows large flippers for swimming. Such a body structure shows that this last strange shrimp is still an active predator, and it can proudly tell its predecessors that it has not insulted the wisdom of a generation of sea emperors!
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