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Gould burgess shale
Gould burgess shale






gould burgess shale

Although not visible on any specimens, the mouth was almost certainly located on the underside of the body. There are three pairs of cephalic appendages excluding the antennae that functioned as walking limbs, as well as seven pairs of biramous walking limbs with gills, otherwise similar to the cephalic limbs running along the trunk, which decreased in size posteriorly. A pair of tapering flexible segmented antennae projected forwards from the head, which were about equal in length to the carapace, these were likely tactile in function. It was likely thin and had only weak sclerotization. The body had an unsegmented approximately circular carapace that was somewhat convex.








Gould burgess shale