Invertebrate
Marrella
Marrella was a small arthropod with a distinctive head shield carrying long backward-directed spines.
Marrella was a small arthropod with a distinctive head shield carrying long backward-directed spines. Its many fine limbs and delicate body make it unlike a miniature familiar crustacean.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Marrella at a glance
- Diet
- Diet uncertain
- When it lived
- Cambrian
- Group
- Arthropoda
- Arthropoda
Beyond the game
The real Marrella
Marrella was a small arthropod with a distinctive head shield carrying long backward-directed spines. Its many fine limbs and delicate body make it unlike a miniature familiar crustacean.
Its delicate repeated limbs and distinctive head spines document an early arthropod body plan. The animal is well known from fossils even though its precise feeding remains less straightforward.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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