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You may have guessed, but I'm quite having fun with these.
The previous Oralopod (originally called "AYUC" meaning "As Yet Unnamed Creature") had different front end, and I will probably work on that one some more, but I'll yet have to make up my mind about its prey items.

I am quite sure what this guy here will eat, or at least I know how this creature gets the food.

The oral arms form a pointed beak-like front end, and this animal uses them to dig in the sediment and stir the sand on the seabed to get to "not-so-deeply-burrowed animals" which it eats.

There won't be much compettition between this one and the "sea mole" because the latter focuses on prey items that make deeper burrows where the former cannot reach.

I am tempted to make the original grenade-like Oralopod a "shell-crusher" which will have blunt stubs on the oral arms to get through the armor of its prey.

I plan to upload two more sketches today, one of a rather special "echinoderm" and the other of a reef-building sessile filter-feeding "worm."

Description
You may have guessed, but I'm quite having fun with these.
The previous Oralopod (originally called "AYUC" meaning "As Yet Unnamed Creature") had different front end, and I will probably work on that one some more, but I'll yet have to make up my mind about its prey items.

I am quite sure what this guy here will eat, or at least I know how this creature gets the food.

The oral arms form a pointed beak-like front end, and this animal uses them to dig in the sediment and stir the sand on the seabed to get to "not-so-deeply-burrowed animals" which it eats.

There won't be much compettition between this one and the "sea mole" because the latter focuses on prey items that make deeper burrows where the former cannot reach.

I am tempted to make the original grenade-like Oralopod a "shell-crusher" which will have blunt stubs on the oral arms to get through the armor of its prey.

I plan to upload two more sketches today, one of a rather special "echinoderm" and the other of a reef-building sessile filter-feeding "worm."