TABLE 1. Examples of previously documented abnormal Ogygopsis klotzi and the suggested predator groups.
Morphology of injury | Proposed predator | Publication |
‘U’-shaped injury on right side of thorax impacting thoracic segments 3-6 | Possibly Anomalocaris | Rudkin (1979, fig. 1A, B) |
‘W’-shaped injury on left side of thorax impacting thoracic segments 6-8 | Possibly Anomalocaris | Rudkin (1979, fig. 1C, D) |
‘W’-shaped injury on the anterior section of the right side of pygidium | Possibly Anomalocaris | Rudkin (1979, fig. 1E, F) |
‘V’-shaped injury on right side of thorax impacting thoracic segments 7-8 | Possibly Anomalocaris | Rudkin (1979, fig. 1G, H), refigured in Rudkin (2009, fig. 1B) |
‘U’-shaped injury on posterior right side of thorax impacting thoracic segment 10 and the anterior right pygidium | Anomalocaris | Briggs and Whittington (1985, p. 37) |
Cicatrized ‘W’-shaped injury on the anterior right side of pygidium | Anomalocaris sp. | Pratt (1998, fig. 1A) |
‘W’-shaped injury on the right side of thorax impacting thoracic segments 3-6 and minor ‘U’-shaped injury on the left side of the thorax impacting thoracic section 5 | Anomalocaris sp. | Nedin (1999, fig. 2C) |
‘W’-shaped injury on the left side of thorax impacting thoracic segments 2-5 | Total group euarthropod with gnathobases or gnathobase-like structures; e.g. amplectobeluid radiodonts, trilobites, and other artiopodans | Bicknell and Pates (2020; fig. 7A, B) |