music for cambrian animals !! sidneyia
hiiiii !! sidneyia time.
unlike the other cambrian dudes, this one is less known and there is not as much information about it. and still it’s such a cute arthropod :]
sidneyia wandered across the floors of our loved cambrian ocean approximately 505 million years ago, and it is thought to have been a seafloor dwelling predator and/or scavenger.
the biggest species of sidneyia, Sidneyia inexpectans, reached lengths of at least 16 centimeters (6.3 in) and they were discovered in 1910 by Charles Walcott’s in the Burgess Shale.
¿what’s the Burgess Shale u might ask? well, it is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia (in Canada), and it has exceptional preservation of its fossils. i mean, think about how we are talking about living beings from more than 500 million years ago !!
fun fact: Walcott named this dude sidneyia because of his son called Sidney, and the particular species Sidneyia inexpectans because inexpectans in latin means “unexpected”, and he did not expect to find such a fossil in strata older than the Ordovician (which is the period that came after the Cambrian)
i still find it hard to explain why these animals fascinate me so much. it’s like.. agh i don’t know. life on earth is such a breathtaking thing, and it’s kinda shocking to think about how there were living beings so so different from us and so long before us, that one day just.. disappeared.
and.. and life just kept going. for no apparent reason
like the whole universe and time and things just started to happen, and life appeared and developed and diversified and created so many different things and.. yeah.
so um, i hope u like these prehistoric bugs, and my weird way of appreciating them in the form of art.
i’m very proud of this track, and how the whole project is taking shape :)
see ya soon, i love u💚🌌🪐
