RE: 'Walking with Monsters' or 'Before the Dinosaurs'

[paul w sparks <pws@psparks.us>]

The mouth of the anomalocaris is on the bottom of its head and the
claspers were holding the food more or less where that mouth was. The
mouth of the A is almost unique in that its a round structure with
"teeth" coming in from all sides to crush the food. There are fossils
of trilobytes that have a chunk bit out of them by this interesting
animal.
p sparks


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: 'Walking with Monsters' or 'Before the Dinosaurs'
> From: Eric Martichuski <herewiss13@hotmail.com>
> Date: Sat, November 05, 2005 10:19 pm
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> 
> A couple observations:
> 
> 1) Had some trouble figuring out just how Anomalocaris got the food from 
> those lovely grasping arms to the mouth.  It didn't seem to eat, it just 
> liked to hold onto things. ;-)
>