Precambrian plushies

This is largely posted from an a friend who spotted ancient animal
plushies
in a museum in Japan, then went to the effort of hunting down stores. I
thought people might appreciate this. Some are very cute. I've checked
most
of the links and they appear to be working.


TOY PARK appears to lack overseas shipping options, but it does have a
lovely array of scientific plushies to ogle at:


Kimberella  - slug-like Ediacaran organism

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009547


Odaraia - Middle Cambrian crustacean

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009622


Ottoia - Middle Cambrian priapulid worm

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009486


Burgessochaeta - Middle Cambrian polychaete annelid

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009615


Asaphus kowalewskii - Middle Ordovician trilobite

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009509


Cameroceras  - Ordovician orthoconic cephalopod

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009516


Pterygotus - Silurian/Devonian eurypterid (sea scorpion)

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009578


Megarachne servinei - Upper Carboniferous eurypterid (sea scorpion)

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009561


Pleurocystites - Late Ordovician cystoid echinoderm

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009523


Fish

Myllokunmingia - Cambrian craniates (pre-fish/early fish)

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009608


Haikouichthys - Cambrian craniate (pre-fish/early fish)

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009592


Arandaspis prionotolepis - jawless fish (oldest known vertebrate)

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009493


*Echinochimaera meltoni *- Lower Carboniferous chimaera fish

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009554


Amphibian

Gerobatrachus hottoni - Permian frogamander

http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=2&PRODUCT_ID=4932719009530


Via LOVE JOURNEY you should be able to order some of the plushies and get
them delivered to wherever you happen live in the world:


Marine animals generally

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/c/0000000111/


Marrella splendens - Middle Cambrian arthropod

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/6230/


Hallucigenia - Middle Cambrian Onychophora?

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5927b/


Opabinia regalis

(green) - Middle Cambrian anomalocaridid

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5657b-green/

(orange)

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5657b-orange/


Anomalocaris - Middle Cambrian anomalocaridid

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/6008/

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5640b/

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5967a/


Pambdelurion whittingtoni - Cambrian anomalocaridid

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5729b/


Paradoxides - Middle Cambrian trilobite

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5727b/#10000533


Sanctacaris (colloquially known as 'Santa Claws') - Middle Cambrian
chelicerate

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/6231/


Yohoia - Middle Cambrian arachnomorph arthropod

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/6233/


Sidneyia inexpectans (which fed on trilobites & hyolithids) - Middle
Cambrian arthropod

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/6232/


Xidazoon stephanus - Lower Cambrian Vetulicolia

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5726b/

(Vetulicola  http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Evolution/vetulicola.htm)


Horseshoe Crab - Modern

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5013a/


Chambered Nautilus - Modern

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/3522/#10000300


Fish

Pikaia - Middle Cambrian cephalochordata (pre-fish)

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5931b/


Hemicyclaspis - Devonian jawless fish

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5739b/


Pteraspis - Devonian jawless fish

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5728b/


Cephalaspis - Devonian freshwater jawless fish

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5733b/


Doryaspis - Devonian jawless fish (sawfish like beak)

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5732b/


Dipnorhynchus - Devonian lungfish (appeared in Ponyo)

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5735b/


Phyllolepis - Devonian freshwater placoderm

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5734b/


Bothriolepis - Devonian freshwater placoderm

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5738b/


West Indian Ocean Coelacanth (42cm long ones)

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5335b/


Coelacanth (30cm)

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/2462/


East African lungfish

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5087a/


African lungfish

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5012a/


Amphibians

Tiktaalik (grey) - Upper Devonian fish/amphibian

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5966a/


Acanthostega (white with brown dots) - Upper Devonian Labyrinthodont
amphibian

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5687b/


Elginerpeton pancheni (lime green) - Upper Devonian Labyrinthodont
amphibian

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5673b/


Ichthyostega (blue) - Upper Devonian Labyrinthodont amphibian

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5677b-blue/


Ichthyostega (pink) - Upper Devonian Labyrinthodont amphibian

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5677b-pink/


Eryops (brown) - Lower Permian amphibian

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5696b/


Reptiles - modern

Komodo Dragon

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5698b/


Tuatara

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/5697b/


The mysterious animal and robot sections are fun too

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/c/0000000115/

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-journey/c/0000000107/

This is largely posted from an a friend who spotted ancient animal plushies
in a museum in Japan, then went to the effort of hunting down stores. I
thought people might appreciate this. Some are very cute. I've checked most
of the links and they appear to be working.

Hi all,

I can't claim credit for most of the attached comments. The list is
largely
the work of Michael Bock. He did an amazing job on it and it seems a pity
for it to be a private email only. All I've done is check the links and
add
one or two lines here and there.
http://en-gb.facebook.com/mike.bock

<http://en-gb.facebook.com/mike.bock>I've reposted the list on my
occasional
blog as well as a link to Michael's facebook profile in the comments.
http://christopherjohnstone.blogspot.com/

C.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Katherine Phelps
<muse@glasswings.com.au>wrote:

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, you wrote:

This is largely posted from an a friend who spotted ancient animal

plushies

in a museum in Japan, then went to the effort of hunting down stores.

I

thought people might appreciate this. Some are very cute. I've checked

most

of the links and they appear to be working.

AWESOME! I especially appreciate these cuties after just seeing a David
Attenborough show about them.

Thank you for the attached comments (eg: this one is known as Santa
Claws,
this one is seen on Ponyo...).

Peace,

Katherine

PS: When will we see you dance your thesis?


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