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The oral cone ofAnomalocaris is not a classic ‘‘peytoia’’

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The Cambro-Ordovician anomalocaridids are large ecdysozoans commonly regarded as ancestors of the arthropods and apex predators. Predation is indicated partly by the presence of an unusual “peytoia”-type oral cone, which is a tetraradial outer ring of 32 plates, four of which are enlarged and in perpendicular arrangement. This oral cone morphology was considered a highly consistent and defining characteristic of well-known Burgess Shale taxa. It is here shown thatAnomalocaris has a different oral cone, with only three large plates and a variable number of smaller and medium plates. Its functional morphology suggests that suction, rather than biting, was used for food ingestion, and that anomalocaridids in general employed a range of different scavenging and predatory feeding strategies. Removing anomalocaridids from the position of highly specialized trilobite predators forces a reconsideration of the ecological structure of the earliest marine animal communities in the Cambrian.

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We thank G. Budd and J-B. Caron for discussions. Comments from G. Edgecombe, J. Esteve, B. Lieberman and an anonymous reviewer improved the manuscript. J. Dougherty provided access to specimens at GSC and D. Erwin, J. Thompson and M. Florence provided access to specimens at USNM. J-B. Caron and P. Fenton provided support at the ROM. X. Ma is thanked for the photography of USNM specimens. M. Stein provided photographs that led J.B. to this discovery. Burgess Shale specimens were collected with permission from Parks Canada Research (ROM, D. Collins, 1975 to 2000). Funding from the Swedish Research Council and the Palaeontological Association to A. C. D is gratefully acknowledged. This is Royal Ontario Museum Burgess Shale Research Project 39.

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  1. Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK

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  2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen’s Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK

    Allison C. Daley

  3. Department of Palaeozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 50007, 104 05, Stockholm, Sweden

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Daley, A.C., Bergström, J. The oral cone ofAnomalocaris is not a classic ‘‘peytoia’’.Naturwissenschaften99, 501–504 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-012-0910-8

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