Huge radiodont oral cone
Middle Cambrian (Miaolingian)
Zhangxia Formation – Linyi Lagerstatte
Shangdong, North China
China

Fossil oral cone from a radiodont, an extinct group of early marine arthropods from the Cambrian Period. Radiodonts were among the earliest large active predators in Earth’s oceans, predating modern fish and establishing some of the first complex marine food webs.
110mm on 115mm slab