Primeval Predators™

These scientifically accurate toys are based on the half-billion-year-old fossils of the Burgess Shale from the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia. The ancestors of all animal groups appeared in the greatest evolutionary explosion of all time – the Big Bang of evolution – 500 million years ago. The best view we have of these first animal communities on Earth exists in the Burgess Shale fossils first discovered on Mt. Stephen in 1886. In 1975, Dr. Desmond Collins led the first ROM expedition to the Burgess Shale. He returned for 18 seasons and discovered new Burgess Shale fossil sites and collected many thousands of unique and bizarre fossils.

The collection of toys (suitable for ages 5 and up) includes five of the many strange creatures that lived on the sea floor in this amazing lost world:

• Pikaia gracilens (a probable chordate from the same animal group as humans)
• Laggania cambria (a predatory dinocarid arthropod)
• Olenoides serratus (a trilobite arthropod)
• Opabinia regalis (a predatory dinocarid arthropod)
• Wiwaxia corrugata (a mollusc-like animal)

Cost
Purchase within Canada: $25.95 CAD /set
Purchase outside Canada: $22.95 USD /set

Prices above do not include shipping and applicable taxes. Shipping and taxes are calculated at the time of purchase.

The complete set of five toys is sold in a presentation box. The toys are not sold individually.

Wholesale prices are available for large quantities.
For information and orders e-mail bshale@rom.on.ca.

Made in China and distributed in Canada by the Royal Ontario Museum* *Registered Style Name. All Rights Reserved. Primeval Predators is a registered trademark of the Royal Ontario Museum.

Related Research:
Burgess Shale Projects

 

 

Primeval Predators™.

Wiwaxia corrugata (a mollusc-like animal). Model size 6 cm.

Pikaia gracilens (a chordate from the same animal group as humans). Model size 8 cm.

Laggania cambria (a predatory dinocarid arthropod). Model size 12.5 cm.

Olenoides serratus (a trilobite arthropod). Model size 12.5 cm.

Opabinia regalis (a predatory dinocarid arthropod). Model size 10 cm.