Lost Land Setting: 10 vicariant marine animals...

This is most probably the final addition to my Lost Land setting. I decided that the invertebrates and fish of the Lost Land lacked a tiny little something. Most other clades had a good variety of speculative, fictional or shall we say vicariant forms, which had illustrations.

So I dived into my archive of unfinished projects, some of which I had already shown on here. I found quite a few vicariant-looking forms which would fit, all that it took was transferring them from one setting to another. Here they are...

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A tiny, planktonic ammonite that is found drifting in the open ocean in large swarms. Diameter of the shell is no more than 3 millilemtres in diameter.

A small, wriggling lobopod which catches prey actively in the water column. About 10 centimetres long.

A moderately-sized brittle-star which is adapted to swim actively in the water column, in order to move about.

An over-sized descendant of Callichimaera, which reaches a leg-span of about 20 centimetres. An actively swimming predator of smaller invertebrates.

A tiny, spiny trilobite which parasitizes various fish by lodging itself in their gill cavities and sucking blood.

A free-swimming nudibranch that predates upon small open-water invertebrates of various sorts. Reaching 25 centimetres long, it is highly mobile with large eyes and a keen sense of olfaction and touch.

A long-bodied, free-swimming Vetulicolian which feeds by filtering the water for plankton. It reaches about 30 centimetres long and is a streamlined swimmer.

An open-ocean Iniopterygian which reaches about 30 centimetres in fin-span. It plies surface waters in order to hunt small fish, shrimp and young squid.

A pinecone-shaped armored worm of the Machaeridia group, no more than 18 centimetres long.

A kind of streamlined belemnite which acts like a Cookiecutter Shark, biting plug-shaped chunks from larger marine vertebrates such as fish, sauropterygians and cetaceans.

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