Opabinia regalis, from the Burgess Shale, replica T-Rex Mississippian System of Classification

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and is thought to have had a horny beak that was used for biting off pieces of vegetation

meat-eating theropod

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Opabinia regalis, from the Burgess Shale, replica T-Rex Mississippian System of ClassificationVery Rare Cast of this Burgess Shale Specimen. Cambrian Age, BC, Canada. This creature with its five eyes is a strange looking one indeed. Wielding a long flexible proboscis tipped with grasping spines, its reconstructed image was greeted with laughter as a pretty good joke when first presented at a scientific meeting in 1972. The strange looking reconstruction was soon confirmed, and this creature remains one of the oddities of the Burgess Shale