Gaëtan Potin and Allison Daley published today in Frontiers in Earth Science an exhaustive review paper focusing on radiodonts, an iconic Cambro-Ordovician arthropod group. This open-access article offers an in-depth summary of all research conducted on Anomalocaris, the earliest known apex predator, and its affiliated taxa. Many aspects are discussed, such as diversity, evolutionary implication, paleobiogeography and stratigraphic repartition… If you want to know more about these amazing animals, check out the article following this link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2023.1160285/full.
Radiodont specimens with whole body preservation.
Image credits: (A–D) A. Daley, (E) P. Van Roy, (F) P. Cong