Cambrian, anyone?

[sauropodlet]

Hi everyone. I'm back from Colorado (a couple weeks now) and my new job is settling down to the point where I can think about other things. Ah, the library...

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone might be willing to show me what Cambrian (Burgess Shale, etc.) stuff is out there.

Amonalocaris, Opabinia, Hallucigenia... it's all good.

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

Kaiyodo has made the three that you mentioned...

[Megaraptor]

Dino Horizons made a set of six, can't remember 2 but four are the 3 you mentioned and Pikkia(Piikia, Pikaia, however you spell it).

[tomhet]

Well, right now I can think of four different groups of Cambrian figures, the Kaiyodo figures: from Kaiyodo the Opabinia (reviewed on the blog), Anomalocaris and Hallucigenia, the TEDCO set (also reviewed on the blog), the ROM set called 'Primeval Predators' and the Yowies figures, which included at least an Anomalocaris

There's also a Haikouella from Yujin.

I wish someone would produce figures from the Chinese formation that is similar to the Burgess Shale.

[crankydinosaur]

kayiodo: anomalocaris and a hallucigenia

yowie: wiwaxiad and an anomalocaris

tedco prehistoric panorama: pikaia, opabinia, ottoia, hallucigenia, aysheaia, and a trilobite

rom primeval predators: opabinia, laggania (basically a anomalocaris,) wiwaxia, olenoides (a trilobite) and a pikaia

all in all you can get a pretty good range of figures i personally am using the tedco and the rom figures in my diorama.

figures i would like to see (to scale of the other figures of course) would be waptia, marella, sidneyia, canadia, dinomischus, and some cambrian sponges and trilobites!

[deanm]

A couple of photos of the aforementioned ROM critters.

[sauropodlet]

Aug 26, 2009 6:41:25 GMT Megaraptor said:

Dino Horizons made a set of six, can't remember 2 but four are the 3 you mentioned and Pikkia(Piikia, Pikaia, however you spell it).

Pikiachu?

[sbell]

Here's a mistake everybody keeps making--the ROM set does not include Anomalocaris. Personally, I originally thought that they messed up or sacrificed some realism to make an easier mold (like with the really thick Olenoides antennae) by leaving off the rear fins and moving the eyes back .

It is Laggania--different especially because it doesn't have the fancy tail fins. Apparently, Laggania may have been a filter feeder:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laggania

It was also smaller than Anomalocaris.

[bokisaurus]

here are some from my collection. They are all mixed in with other figures, just try and spot them ;D
Some TEDCO figures, I don't have all of them unfortunately

ROM

Some kaiyodos

different versions

And some Yowies ;D

I almost did a Cambrian thread when I did that trilogy, but the project proved to be more work so I dropped it ;D

[Dan]

Right on cue. LoL.

Boki, where'd you get that Dunkleostues in the fourth photo? He's adorable and demonic at the same time.

[bokisaurus]

Aug 26, 2009 19:31:13 GMT Dan said:

Right on cue. LoL.

Boki, where'd you get that Dunkleostues in the fourth photo? He's adorable and demonic at the same time.

LOL! ;D I would not miss a cool topic ;D
That dunkleo is the Kaiyodo one ;D I like him, many don't, but I think its a cool figure ;D I believe he comes in one other version

[Dan]

Ah, of course. Sometimes they go a bit overboard with the colors, but there's no denying the beauty of their figures.

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

The dunkleosteus is kaiyodo's worst IMO. But it's still neat. All the other kaiyodos are just so awesome compared to it.

[sbell]

Aug 26, 2009 19:39:50 GMT bokisaurus said:

Aug 26, 2009 19:31:13 GMT Dan said:

Right on cue. LoL.

Boki, where'd you get that Dunkleostues in the fourth photo? He's adorable and demonic at the same time.

LOL! ;D I would not miss a cool topic ;D
That dunkleo is the Kaiyodo one ;D I like him, many don't, but I think its a cool figure ;D I believe he comes in one other version

I've never said I don't like it--the sculpt is well done, the colours are just dramatic enough (and likely inspired the paint on the WS one) and most of it looks just right. My only complaint has been that the tail is clearly not right--placoderms have not been known to have heterocercal tails. This is one of the very rare instances where Kaiyodo really had an error.

[sauropodlet]

Aug 26, 2009 19:15:38 GMT bokisaurus said:

And some Yowies ;D

I almost did a Cambrian thread when I did that trilogy, but the project proved to be more work so I dropped it ;D

Can you tell me the name of the figure on the lower left and the trilobite to its right?

I'm going to try and pick those up.

Thanks as always for the great pics, Boki--you've made this hobby a total joy ever since I showed up here.

[tomhet]

^^^ That is a Yowies Dickinsonia

[tomhet]

Aug 26, 2009 14:52:00 GMT sbell said:

Here's a mistake everybody keeps making--the ROM set does not include Anomalocaris.

But nobody on this thread said that

[sbell]

Aug 27, 2009 2:42:48 GMT @tomhet said:

Aug 26, 2009 14:52:00 GMT sbell said:

Here's a mistake everybody keeps making--the ROM set does not include Anomalocaris.

But nobody on this thread said that

Your own post implies (if read a certain way) that both the ROM and Yowies set includes at least an Anomlaocaris. And a later post calls Laggania 'essentially Anomalocaris' which is true in only the broadest sense (it's smaller, tailless, and a filter feeder!).

[sbell]

Aug 27, 2009 0:52:56 GMT sauropodlet said:

Aug 26, 2009 19:15:38 GMT bokisaurus said:

And some Yowies ;D

I almost did a Cambrian thread when I did that trilogy, but the project proved to be more work so I dropped it ;D

Can you tell me the name of the figure on the lower left and the trilobite to its right?

I'm going to try and pick those up.

Thanks as always for the great pics, Boki--you've made this hobby a total joy ever since I showed up here.

The flat one is the Dickinsonia (Yowies also makes an ediacaran-age Mawsonites). The trilobite is called 'Devonian trilobite' but they identify it as Kettneraspis.

[tomhet]

I never wanted to imply that, I own that set, I know the difference between Laggania and Anomalocaris, the 'which' I used refers to Yowies, I couldn't remember Wiwaxia at the time.