anomalocaridid

English

anomalocaridid (plural anomalocaridids)

(zoology) Any of a group of large marine animals of the family †Anomalocarididae, known only from fossils.
- 2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, The Guardian‎^[1]:
  In 2009, the amazing description of a single specimen of Schinderhannes bartelsi appeared to extend the history of arthropod-like anomalocaridids by a whopping 100 million years, although the true affinity of Schinderhannes is still contested so it may be an Elvis or Lazarus taxon.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 230:
  The second youngest anomalocaridid yet discovered is a bizarre giant from the deeper Ordovician waters of Fezouata in Morocco, called Aegirocassis.