Cambrian Explosion Tapestries

Cambrian fauna

Cambrian life forms on the STBYM logo

Trilobites = <3 This cutie is a part of my “Prehistoric Piggies” project and is celebrating the Cambrian by wearing an adorable Trilobite costume! Copyright 2018 Kristen O’Keefe. All rights reserved. All images property of Kristen O’Keefe and are protected by copyright law. Resale, downloading, reproducing, printing, and comping of these images is illegal without permission of the artist.

This is Anomalocaris - the extinct abnormal shrimp of the Cambrian Seas

Palaeozoic arthropods. Artwork depicting extinct marine arthropods from the Cambrian period of the Palaeozoic era, (between around 500 and 300 million years ago). The organisms seen here have been reconstructed from fossils found in the Burgess Shale deposits in British Columbia, Canada. The organisms depicted include Opabinia (top, stalked eyes) and Pikaia (long, thin at lower centre). Several trilobites are also depicted (flat- shaped, centre left and lower right). During the Cambrian period as many as fifty separate major phyla emerged suddenly. These occurence is referred to as the Cambrian explosion.

The shallow sea delivers a smorgasbord to your table.