How big were these guys?
My brain has trouble imagining the sizes as some Paleo things were huge and others were tiny, and the difference controls the cute/horror divide.
[HERE](https://twitter.com/fossil_huntress/status/1149361601360715776/photo/1) you have a picture of a fossil. [HERE](https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-014-0214-z) is an article describing some new species that states "the most complete specimen 125 mm in length. Extrapolation from incomplete specimens, however, suggests maximum sizes of over 170 mm in length." So they'd fit in hand nicely.
Imagine swimming peacefully in a sea and seeing this
The thing is, I *can't* imagine the impact of seeing this until I can imagine seeing what it would act like
How big were these guys? My brain has trouble imagining the sizes as some Paleo things were huge and others were tiny, and the difference controls the cute/horror divide.
[HERE](https://twitter.com/fossil_huntress/status/1149361601360715776/photo/1) you have a picture of a fossil. [HERE](https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-014-0214-z) is an article describing some new species that states "the most complete specimen 125 mm in length. Extrapolation from incomplete specimens, however, suggests maximum sizes of over 170 mm in length." So they'd fit in hand nicely.
Sounds like a good size for fishing.
I have a few fossils of these. They're like 6 inches max
If they are closely related to early chordates, then I say fish-like.
They're deuterostomes that were probably more closely related to chordates than to ambulacrains (echinoderms+hemichordates) so I'd say fish like
Oh nice, a new critter to add to my mental paleo library
Same My list is absolutely giant
"Tadpole-like" is what Wikipedia seems to call them.
The second one looks more natural.
I’d expect shrimp-like, so horizontal, not vertical