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Mirificus Studios Poll: Top Invertebrate?

Started by ZoPteryx, December 19, 2017, 05:53:17 AM

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Which invertebrates would you like to see added to the Mirificus Studios line of figures?  Please choose ten (10).

Dickinsonia costata (Late Ediacaran flattened & segmented very primitive animal)
Kimberella quadrata (Ediacaran gastropod-like animal)
Haootia quadriformis (Late Ediacaran polyp-like animal from Canada)
Cothurnocystis elizae (Ordovician oddly shaped echinoderm with a short tail)
Vetulicola cuneata (Cambrian bizarre spaceship-shaped filter-feeding vetulicolian from China)
Skeemella clavula (Cambrian elongate tadpole-like vetulicolian from the USA)
Ancalagon minor (Cambrian worm-like animal with a proboscis from Canada)
Collinsium ciliosum (Cambrian spined Hallucigenia-relative from China)
Waptia fieldensis (Cambrian shrimp-like animal from Canada)
Schinderhannes bartelsi (Devonian Anomalocaris-relative with large front flippers from Germany)
Vachonisia rogeri (Devonian flat-shelled crab-like arthropod from Germany)
Ceratarges armatus (Devonian many spined trilobite from Morocco)
Terataspis grandis (Devonian large ornate trilobite from North America)
Walliserops trifurcatus (Devonian trident-nosed trilobite from Morocco)
Erbenochile erbeni (Devonian tower-eyed trilobite from North Africa)
Brontoscorpio anglicus (Silurian large marine scorpion from England)
Austrolimulus fletcheri (Triassic small wide-"winged" horseshoe crab from Australia)
Hibbertopterus scouleri (Late Carboniferous swamp dwelling eurypterid from Scotland)
Megalograptus welchi (Ordovician eurypterid with long spines on its arm)
Pentecopterus decorahensis (Ordovician spiny-armed well-preserved eurypterid from the USA)
Jaekelopterus rhenaniae (Devonian giant eurypterid from Germany)
Arthropleura armata (Carboniferous giant wide-armored millipede from Scotland)
Ainiktozoon loganense (Silurian "alien-headed" thylacocephalid crustacean from Scotland)
Thylacares brandonensis (Silurian stalk-eyed pelagic raptorial thylacocephalid crustacean from the USA)
Dollocaris ingens (Jurassic giant-eyed raptorial thylacocephalid crustacean from France)
Cycleryon propinquus (Jurassic squat lobster-like crustacean from Europe)
Iliella spinosa (Early Jurassic fairly large spiny tadpole shrimp from Kazakhstan)
Stenodictya lobata (Carboniferous "six-winged" primitive flying insect)
Oregramma illecebrosa (Early Cretaceous butterfly-like lacewing with eyespots from China)
Mickoleitia longimanus (Early Cretaceous mantis-like mayfly-relative from Brazil)
Amiskwia sagittiformis (Cambrian flatworm-like animal of uncertain affinities from Canada)
Halkieria evangelista (Cambrian limpet-like animal from Greenland)
Nectocaris pteryx (Cambrian very primitive cephalopod from Canada)
Cameroceras sp. (Ordovician-Silurian giant straight-shelled nautiloid)
Lituites littuus (Ordovician half-coiled nautiloid)
Hercoceras sp. (Devonian knob-shelled nautilus)
Ascoceras sp. (Ordovician-Silurian tube-shelled nautiloid)
Ancyloceras sp. (Early Cretaceous bent-coil ammonite)
Hamulina astieri (Cretaceous candycane-shaped ammonite)
Didymoceras sp. (Late Cretaceous tall dome-coiled ammonite)
Pravitoceras sp. (Late Cretaceous 8-shaped ammonite)
Parapuzosia seppenradensis (Late Cretaceous giant coiled ammonite from Germany)
Titanites sp. (Late Jurassic large coiled ammonite)
Plesiacanthoceras sp. (Cretaceous small coiled ammonite with paired spines)
Kosmoceras sp. (Jurassic small coiled ammonites with a pair of "outriggers")
Megateuthis gigantea (Jurassic large belemnite from Eurasia)
Belemnotheutis antiquus (Jurassic well-preserved belemnite from Europe)
Rhomboteuthis lehmani (Jurassic well-preserved squid from France)
Trachyteuthis hastiformis (Jurassic squid-like octopus relative)
Proteroctopus ribeti (Jurassic well-preserved primitive octopus from France)
Tusoteuthis longa (Late Cretaceous giant vampire squid-relative from North America)
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ZoPteryx

December 19, 2017, 05:53:17 AM
The final poll!  ;D

For those that may be wondering, certain sessile invertebrates (rudist bivalves, corals, etc) and plants were excluded here, but will be included on certain bases that may accompany figures or be available separately.

I hope to use this poll, and others like it, to gauge what types of creatures folks would like to see made for my (hopefully one day available) Mirificus Studios line of figures.  Keep in mind larger species will be made at 1:40 scale, and those smaller than 6 meters/20 feet in life will likely be made at larger scales (1:20, 1:6, 1:2, etc.).  If you want a species not listed here, please write your suggestion in the comments.

Have fun voting!  :D

BlueKrono

#1
December 19, 2017, 07:39:59 AM
I want all the lobopods ever!
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bmathison1972

#2
December 19, 2017, 11:44:34 AM
I selected the insects and crustaceans, with a couple lopopods to round off the 10.

Halichoeres

#3
December 20, 2017, 03:35:42 PM
1. Good luck sculpting a Megalograptus, looks like a huge challenge.

2. Write in contenders: Linguamyrmex, a Cretaceous "hell ant," but would also be interested in an actual graptolite, to help round out the Ambulacraria.
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ZoPteryx

#4
December 23, 2017, 07:56:09 AM
Quote from: Halichoeres on December 20, 2017, 03:35:42 PM
1. Good luck sculpting a Megalograptus, looks like a huge challenge.

2. Write in contenders: Linguamyrmex, a Cretaceous "hell ant," but would also be interested in an actual graptolite, to help round out the Ambulacraria.

1. I'm more worried about the molding and casting, but yeah, it'll be a challenge all around.  :))

2. Good suggestion on the hell ants.  And I had forgotten about graptolites!  You thinking Tetragraptus fruticosis (top, 10 cm) or Diplograptus simplex (bottom, any idea on size?) or another genus?


Joe the Spinosaurus

#5
June 08, 2018, 12:10:26 AM
Go team eurypterid!

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