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Description
For 's challenge of reconstructing fossils found on a distant planet.

(1) Knueppesqualus extraterrestris

A big, powerful, aquatic predator. Altho it definitely spend nearly it's whole life in the rusty seas, it could have used it's second and fourth pair of limbs (which where most likely normally used to "walk" on the bottom of the sea) to get on land and reproduce there. It posessed a powerful harpoon to catch prey, and used the first and second pair of limbs as well as the rostrum to hold and dismember it, while the third pair keeps it stable while the prey struggles. I reconstructed it posessing four long and three shorter chemo-sensory antennas as well as an "eye"-cluster, sound-sensing fuzzy organs and "whiskers" to detect prey.

(2) Piscinautilus loricatorus

This armored filter feeder has a snail-like shell with many small holes, here depicted being sockets for "eyes" . It is shown with two flipper - like extensions. A tube-like canal is running through the shell, here being reconstructed as a mixture of a digestive tube and a "water jet" similar to the one in octopi. It could have been the last meal of K. extraterrestris.

(3) Pseudosquilla major and
(4) Pseudosquilla minor

These animals (which possibly are two individuals of the same species who died with different ages) are verry crustacean-like, being comparable to prawns and shrimps. Perhaps they were parasites or scavengers who died together with the predator.

Description
For 's challenge of reconstructing fossils found on a distant planet.

(1) Knueppesqualus extraterrestris

A big, powerful, aquatic predator. Altho it definitely spend nearly it's whole life in the rusty seas, it could have used it's second and fourth pair of limbs (which where most likely normally used to "walk" on the bottom of the sea) to get on land and reproduce there. It posessed a powerful harpoon to catch prey, and used the first and second pair of limbs as well as the rostrum to hold and dismember it, while the third pair keeps it stable while the prey struggles. I reconstructed it posessing four long and three shorter chemo-sensory antennas as well as an "eye"-cluster, sound-sensing fuzzy organs and "whiskers" to detect prey.

(2) Piscinautilus loricatorus

This armored filter feeder has a snail-like shell with many small holes, here depicted being sockets for "eyes" . It is shown with two flipper - like extensions. A tube-like canal is running through the shell, here being reconstructed as a mixture of a digestive tube and a "water jet" similar to the one in octopi. It could have been the last meal of K. extraterrestris.

(3) Pseudosquilla major and
(4) Pseudosquilla minor

These animals (which possibly are two individuals of the same species who died with different ages) are verry crustacean-like, being comparable to prawns and shrimps. Perhaps they were parasites or scavengers who died together with the predator.