Published on June 29th, 2015 | by Dave Marshall

Palaeocast has a new episode.  The topic is Lobopodians.  This episode has two interviews.  Recall that earlier this week Nature had a paper that redescribed Halluciginia.  The first is with Dr. Martin Smith and is about that paper.  Halluciginia is one of the “weird wonders” of the Burgess Shale.  It was originally reconstructed upside down.  And now, the new paper has it flipped front to back. 

The second interview is about an older and more armored lobopodian from the early Cambrian of the Xiaoshiba biota of China.  This new animal is called Collinsium ciliosum.  Dr. Javier Ortega-Hernandez discusses the paper that describes this strange creature.