Trilobites of Kaimere
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Trilobites were a clade of arthropods in Earth's prehistory, being one of the major players taking off in the Cambrian explosion. They were hit hard by the first major extinctions, in large part due to their ties to coastal waters. Eventually the Great Dying saw their conclusion, though in Kaimere, despite several extinctions, they persist and are quite abundant in the known world and beyond.
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I always felt like Trilobites were done dirty on Earth due to a series of mass extinctions gradually weakening them. I’m glad this massive and successful dynasty of underrated gems gets a second chance on Kaimere and I’m glad they survived to the present.
Absolutely!
It’s wonderful to see the Trilobites survive in Kaimere compared to Earth. I’m certain that the people from Earth who are aware of Kaimere were amazed to know that Trilobites still exist in Kaimere, correct?
Some are indeed quite surprised! Many in the Assembly assumed they were doomed. However, trilobites only got hit so hard on Earth due to extenuating circumstances surrounding a few major extinctions. As the overall context didn't play out the same way on Kaimere (start of the Permian Dynasty didn't have such aridity due to not having a Pangaea and therefore more shallow seas for them to reproduce, that sort of thing) so they managed to have enough species survive that they persisted.
@@thedarkmasterthedarkmasteras if they were inherently inferior, they survived 250 million years, and it took 3 mayor mass extinctions to kill them of😅
One of the sadder losses of the march of history. Glad to know some are doing well on Kaimere.
Absolutely
I never knew this much about Trilobites before, and yet I always felt they were overlooked. So glad that this episode gave them the respect they deserve!
Thank you, and absolutely! I was in a similar position. Liked them a lot but didn't have much appreciation until I studied them a bit more thoroughly.
Your dunkleosteus rendition is amazing by far my favourite animal
Thanks so much!
Just as eurypterids are a great reason to not give me a time machine or a visit to Kaimere, trilobites are the counterpoint that makes it seem maybe not so bad.
I would love a freshwater trilobite for a home aquarium, Kaimeran or other wise.
@@Stooltoad5017 I would suggest neocaridina shrimp, they are amazing. They require stable conditions but with the right research you can have a self sustaining colony. Biggest issue is people always overfeed them or work to hard to try and get water conditions perfect not realizing that stability is the #1 requirement.
I am an aquarium nerd so honestly i could prolly talk about it forever. Its not a trilobite but there is something about bright coloured shrimp that is awesome.
Glad to see trilobites are still doing well in Kaimere. They also look like they make for good eating. What do they taste like?
I don’t think many animals can claim to have been around for 300 million years with a body plan relatively unchanged from when they started. Trilobites really were the peak.
The Abyss of Kaimere sounds fun. I’d imagine whale falls are more common down their than they are on earth due to the productivity of Kaimere. I hope we will see what it looks like Down there someday. Has the assembly used submarines to check out what is down there? And if they did, did the Free States care?
They are delicious, with taste and consistency similar to crustaceans like crab and lobster.
They really did land perfection right away.
I do hope to do an episode on the Abyss down the road. Since there aren't harvests of our Abyss, most of the fauna down there is made up of a few that came to the surface and a lot of coastal fauna that independently adapted to the depths. A much more unique habitat than most on Kaimere which have relatively close Earth analogues.
The Assembly has had a few approved missions but they are not frequently permitted such activities.
I remember learning about trilobites when I was a kid and learned how they were common in the Paleozoic living in the oceans feeding on the ocean floor and they resemble horseshoe crabs. But I like that they exist in Kaimere coexisting with Kaimerans and different Kaimeran wildlife but also being gigantic.
Turn them into xylophones.
Can’t wait to watch.
Shearflanks are so cool I never thought a triolobite would be so cool
Not to say Normal triolobites are boring
Thanks! Definitely was inspired by Arthropleura but making them a seagrass grazer instead of a terrestrial gymnosperm grazer.
@@TalesofKaimere now you mention it I see the similarity
I remember asking if there were Trilobites in Kaimere on DeviantArt awhile ago and I'm glad we finally got to see them in detail.
Absolutely!
Shearflank is my favourite design from this episode. Giant marine centipede with blades on its flanks, thats quite cool idea.
Thank you! Have had the basic idea of 'what if Arthropleura but a trilobite' for years now but I wasn't sure where I wanted to put it. The meadows suit them very well.
I knew they would find a second chance in Kaimere. Tbh, I look forward to next week, and most of all, I feel great about these magnificent arthropods getting their limelight.
Haha. Just about to climb into bed at 2 in the morning, get a notification, new Kaimere video. Back down the rabbit hole I go. Lovely video, glad to see that such little things as Trilobites get as much love and detail as something like the Robust monarchs!
I’m glad they are thriving and flourishing on kaimere
Kaimere has become even more awesome now that we officially have living trilobites. And I have to praise your Dunkleosteus. It's rare for you to do a full colored design for an extinct animal on Kaimere and it's great to see.
Question: I'm not necessarily asking for living species, but did any placoderms survive the period with massive algal and magic blooms, or was this the end for the entire lineage with other fish clades persisting into the main part of the First Dynasty?
From what Keenan has said on other platforms, he has neither confirmed or denied. Although he has said it is unlikely many survived.
Extremely unlikely that any will be present but I don’t want to close the door completely without study
I love the shearflank self sharpening plates idea!
Thanks!
Defintiely some fantastic trilobites here. They all look rad, though my favourite is probably the Shearflank.
This has been a fascinating look at both an overlooked lineage and the establishment of life on kaimere!
Absolutely!
Shearflank is almost large enough to hold all of my love and admiration for trilobites.
OMG, THE OPENING MUSIC IS SOOOO GOOD
Ive been waiting for this episode for so long i love trilobites, thank you ❤❤️
Thanks! Lobster Polska by Rune Dale. The name was too perfect to pass up and the song absolutely slaps
On Objecia, trilobites, being survivors of the Whale's Rise Mass Extinction, have taken many forms. Some species even went onto land. One of the largest species of Objecian trilobite is the starship trilobite. This species is about the size of an average pillow, making it larger than most other Objecian trilobites. Starship trilobites are dark grey in color. It also is omnivorous and sometimes, it even eats fish. These trilobites are also the only Objecian trilobite that can swim.
A dense soup.
A primordial soup.
Some of the best fossil animals, seriously in my mind the only creatures that can compete with Ammonites as a “mascot” for paleontology or deep time are Trilobites. Just too damn iconic.
Absolutely!
This was quite a fun episode! This gives me a new sense of appreciation for trilobites and makes me want to add them to one of my own projects. my favourite one has got to be the moosehead. Any animal with antlers/branched horns is a cool animal
I got the chance to learn a bit about trilobites a few weeks ago. I'm glad to see how comprehensive this video is on trilobite anatomy, physiology, and history!
Thank you! It was great that my sponsor also knew a lot about the subject. Made the research a lot more streamlined and I was quite thankful for it. Such fascinating animals!
@@TalesofKaimere I'm actually quite surprised to see such a diversity of trilobites in Kaimere, especially those who've made the journey onto land. One very interesting thing with basically all Earth trilobites, on top of solely marine forms being represented in the fossil record, is that almost all groups have the same leg structure. Because their legs are made up of three parts and one of which is their gill, there is essentially no diversity in trilobite leg morphology, contrary to animals like crustaceans.
What kinds of ecological factors do you think played into this sudden ability to expand to the land? I'd imagine even the occasional Earth trilobite could survive on land for a bit in humid enough conditions, and their fossils may just not be recorded for whatever reason due to the acidic soils of the tropics or something else. Is there a shared group of traits that allowed Kaimeran trilobites to successfully make the journey into freshwaters and land, such as association with magic (being such a prevalent group may have deemed them a beneficial investment in the eyes of the magic) or some other planetary condition?
Trilobites were one of the most successful clades of Earth, I am so glad that at least some were able to eek out an ecological niche on Kaimere.
Also I badly understood any of this video, I almost fell asleep ngl 😅
So seeing that there are reef-dwelling trilobites, I'm curious now if all reefs on Kaimere are primarily coral reefs, or if other varieties thrive. I saw a post that Nix Draws Stuff retweeted that covered several known extinct Earth biomes, such as carbonate reefs that were formed by giant rudists, which are bivalve mollusks, as well as ones formed by stromatoporoids, a once diverse group of sponges. There's also the possibility for reef-forming life with no direct parallels on Earth that came about due to the different context and evolutionary pressures present on Kaimere, like perhaps super specialized snails or barnacles?
I would think in the known world reefs would be relatively similar to how they are on current earth. I’d bet on the fringes of Kaimere (like Kaishel or the abyss) the reefs are made up of all sorts of wild stuff.
I do have a reef segment of an episode on the horizon and will study and elaborate on this idea then!
ALL THESE DESIGNS ARE SO COOL
Thank you so much!
Wow, living for nearly 300 million years of Earth history, thriving in Kaimere, their variety in forms and genetic lineages, learning a bit more about the First Dynasty, seeing the new niches they've found themselves, but the real clincher for me is finding out why Trilobites got their name.
My fave is the Shearflank, it's bigger than any Trilobite I know of on our own planet. Plus, it looks like you cut off a Gastonia tail and gave it eyes and legs!
FYI for others, The Siren Lord is the same sponsor as Keenan's Ammonite video.
Super cool all around!
Absolutely! Shearflank were mostly inspired by Arthropleura but the head as the hip and sides as osteoderms was also inspiration
A wonderful video as always, but there's one thing I'd like to ask. How exactly does the portal communicate with its satellites? I don't remember if you've already talked about it at some point but it always confuses me a bit.
Thank you! In its natural state it communicated via radio or similar frequencies. The communication is theorized to have taken around 100 years. The data is sent via communication so takes the same amount of time. When the First Children trapped it, they dramatically accelerated the process. As it appears instantaneous, many theorize the two sides are linked via quantum entanglement or some similar phenomenon, but again, this is not the natural state of the portal.
Yeah! Trilobites rule! Literally the Cochineals of the primitive seas! Great speculative diversity, paleontological review and biologícal facts! Great week for Buggy Groovy!! Also Neat Prologe of this Elder Bacteria God of Kaimere!!! Whooo!!
I still think that the Moosehead trilobite’s frontal carapace would make for a killer mask
Absolutely!
Trilobites are one of my favorite prehistoric creatures so happy to see them evolve further on Kaimere
Heck yeah! They’re fantastic
The original Little Guys™️
Love these Little Guys™️
They're perfect
It was really a gorgious episode !
To have bringing such (one of the most) iconic prehistoric animal clade known by the public in the foreground !
Not only explaining their Natural History throughout Kaimere, but also displaying extant, modern and still-living representatives that survived into our days into the Holocene !
And in a great, successfull and numerous diversity in addition !
Thank you!
Keep doing a great work
Thank you!
Just got my hands on your first Kaimere anthology and been thorougly enjoying it.
Your mentions of the Abyss and whalefalls has left me wondering if there's been much (if any) harvesting of deep sea life? Or is it a case of too much effort for too little biomass?
Glad you’re enjoying it! The Abyss is not within the portal’s territory. While there has been some abyssal fauna by virtue of upwells, but for the most part, Kaimere’s abyss is unique to the planet
Really amazing episode👌
Thank you!
trilobites let's GOOO!
Ok now I'm wondering what the best way to cook and serve Trilobite is. Steamed over Beer and served with garlic butter maybe?
Sounds like a great time to me!
I was not expecting something like Shearflank to be in a Trilobite video, still this is one of the best episodes you've made on arthropods so far! Can't wait to see what you have next!
Thanks so much!!
THE GOATS 🗿
17:44
trilobite BUMPER CARS!
Beautiful as always. Quick question: how did crabs and other arthropods from more recent harvests affect trilobites?
Probably lead to some competition and extinctions but there's still plenty of niches to go around.
@@TalesofKaimere fair enough. Thanks
I really loved this one! Thanks!
Heck yeah! Much appreciated!
The question that still comes to mind with each one of these: What other worlds did clouds of magic go to? Do as of yet undescribed Kaimere landmasses have life from somewhere other than Earth on them? Are there clouds of magic traveling still? What would happen if those clouds found other living worlds and performed a harvest?
Sea Roaches Lets go!!!
(Wonder if something other than Proetida has actually make it to present Kaimere...)
We got some harpids and a possible lichid!
@@TalesofKaimere Nice!
very groovy opening music
Thanks! As soon as I heard it, especially with the name Lobster Polka, I was hooked
can't wait for the next video you are amazing and i was wondering something are gorillas and dolphins persisting outside the known world
Dolphins are present both in and outside the known world.
Gorillas didn't make it but there are other large apes filling a similar role.
Like Andrey said, plenty of dolphin species but no gorillas
Yeah, Trilobites were really masters at surviving and adapting to almost everything ! They were extremes survivors !
They appeared during the Early Cambrian, lived during the Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian and became extinct at the ne dof the Permian, for a lifespan of around 521to 251.9 in total (having lived during 270 mya as an order !).
And having known a total of 5 time periods !
They were very diverses, competitives and resilients !
Thank to their overall generalist diet due to being detritivore and eating almost any kind of food available, their shells whatever basic or complex (their shells become more developped and spiky in response tot he appareance of fish taxa with actual jaws such Pladocderms or Modern Fishes), and were able to even survived in a very limited and low oxygen areas !
They appeared at the start of the Cambrian, lived well with success during the cambrian and Ordovician, before facing a first decline during the Ordovician-Silurian Extinction (around 445 mya) due to mostly the decline of the oceans at the time, with around half of the Trilobites becoming extincts.
They afterward grow again in diversity during the Silurian and Devonian, before facing another decline at the end of the Devonian during the Devonian-Carboniferous Extinction (around 359-58 mya), with only 4 families of Trilobites (the ones mentionned in this video, the Placopids, the Lichids, the Harpids and the Proetids) surviving into the Carboniferous.
They lived during the Carboniferous and Permian, but never gaining again the level of succcess and diversity they had previousely at the precedents periods.
Before finally dying out for all during the famous Great Dying which ended the Pemian (around 251 mya).
Saying that they were not/low competitive animals and doomed to dissapeared anyway due to being primitive and archaic is not only a misconception and missinformation, but also a great insult tot his wonderfull and incredible clade that Trilobites were !
As one of the longest living order of animals that Earth ever had so far ! (Dinosaurs are tame compared to this) !
(Note : Most info here come from the episode of PBS EON channel about Trilobites, "The Trouble With Trilobites" from 2017.
A very good and informative channel about prehistoric animals and cie !).
Awesome
Fascinating video about these peculiar arthropods, I am amazed that the magic of Kaimere save them from exctinction and gave them another chance, it was their indirect hero
I'm afraid such luck would not bestow these invertebrades ik my own spec evo work, but their legacy will live on in an unexpected way via convergent evolution: the isopods
Speaking of which, what was the largest placoderm (and/or eugeneodont, ichthyodectiform, pachychormid, plesiosaur, rhizodont, xenacanthiform) on Kaimere?
Don’t know
Trilobite moment
I wonder what trilobites tastes like, what cuisine we can make out of them(I am hungry😋).
He has told me they taste pretty good!
Comparable to crustaceans, so fantastic if prepared right
I’ve heard you mention these in your other videos, but what are Kaimeran hyenas like? Hyenas are cool!
My understanding is that they aren’t hugely different from earth (given they were harvested in the Pleistocene). Still a dominate force in Kaimere as they are on earth.
So would these be like modern hyenas or like the European cave hyena?@@Stooltoad5017
Would definitely deserve an episode! Got 4 species planned
@@ianswinford5570their are cave hyenas in the Arvelith highlands. Common hyenas are a unique lineage but are related to Earth striped hyenas
Awesome! I wonder if any of them will have females that have the... (ahem)pseudo-penis? I still question why female spotted hyenas have them and the other species don't.@@TalesofKaimere
Amazing Video XD
4:41 eee, A Dunkleosteus!
How often are people smacked with Trilobites? This happens often with octopi being used by Sea lions
Did you just said that there is a "giant abyss trilobite" as a sidenote?
Yup! Gotta sprinkle in some lore beyond just the species shown
@@TalesofKaimere I want to see right now, it's too interesting
This isn’t uncommon for him lol. The makers of silence were hinted to long before the video came out.
will you ever do an episode on Troglobites of Kaimere?
Like cave dwelling fauna? I’d be open to it. One of the elder gods is based around cave ecosystems
@@TalesofKaimere Correct. Now that's something I'll keep an eye out on for the future.
@@TalesofKaimereAn "elder god"?
Kaimere today episode is "permian extinction dont fucked up armadillo lobsters".
THEY LIIIIIIIVE
Not only live, they thrive!
Are there undiscovered continents on Kaimere?
No, though there are plenty of undiscovered islands and continents that have not had as much exploration as others.
@@TalesofKaimere can’t wait to see where you take this series, very good for long car rides
God damn, those are some big sea roaches
Do you have audio versions of your books or plans to do audio versions in the future?
No plans are set in stone but it’s something I would like to do!
I hope ypu upload that dunkleosteus art😊
It is done! Put it on Twitter, Deviantart, and Instagram.
Trilobites gotta be one my favorite extinct species!
Absolutely! They are so dang fun!
We doin brachipoda or radiodonts if we're going down invertebrate lane
I don't have such sponsors but I would happily explore more invertebrates down the road!
Trilobites 2: kaimeran boogaloo
I dont know if i sound stupid saying this, but i am starting to think Magic is some sort of biomechanical lifeform developed by aliens to collonize planets and gather info of different lifeforms throughout the galaxy.
I genuinely feel like there is no way magic could have ever evolved naturally (even in an spec evo scenario), expecifically considering how complicated it is
Surprised they haven't made a full invasion on the land.
They have, just not within the known world. Got plans for some spots in the realms beyond!
@@TalesofKaimere I hope they've become crab. lol
Are there any icthyosaur species left in kaimere
No, at least none Keenan has disclosed. A Clade of Mosasaurs has taken their body plan though.
They are extinct
now that i think about it, it would be really funny of there was a trilobite that went through carcinization
I did consider it but didn’t think much of the designs I was coming up with. Didn’t make as much sense given their simple leg structure
@@TalesofKaimere those are very valid point, im glad you considered it though, i find that quite funny
Is there anything besides the trilobites from the Cambrian explosion that survive on Kaimere?
Yes, though I have not finalized them enough to include in episodes just yet
Though trilobites were first harvested in Devonian.
Do kaimereans eat trilobites? I don't know why but I feel like they'd be good source of food.
They absolutely do! Meadow and hoofhead are notable examples of popular cuisine
Hey would it be OK if I took the magic from your world and put it onto my executive evolution project the concept is that if the magical worlds pacifically earth but if it went to other world It got stuck through some phenomenon I’m just asking because I really want to use a magic cause it’s a cool concept
Go for it!
Thanks
nice
i imagine arthocervids will try to flip just about anything you put in their way, other trilobite? flip
crab? flip
people who dive too close? get flipped dummy (or atleast they'll try)
It is a core instinct lol
real
wait can we get to see the first predater too the anormalcaros sorry i dont know how you suppose to spell
are there any predators that specialize in trilobites?
Probably not them specifically but there are mosasaurs and walruses specialized in tough shelled prey
mantis shrimps?
Probably!
@@TalesofKaimeresweet look forward to them alongside pistol shrimps :)
thanksgiving should be in tuesdays
What's next ?
Sloths
@@TalesofKaimere can't wait for it
19:42 Are these inspired by old Anomalocaris depictions?
Definitely Anomalocaris, not any particular retro pieces though.
@@TalesofKaimere Neat
Hey is there like a video on the planet like gravity and size
Not yet
Are you planning on one
@@IgnacioFelix-yc3uu No, but I would be open to it. These days the episode topics are decided by whoever pays to sponsor one.
Cool
Is there a video that goes into the details of magic
Let's fucking gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo they are alive
Heck yeah!
I was wondering one thing.
Because Kaimere has 2 of my absolute favourite animal groups that still roam around ,those being ammonites and trilobites, have pycnodonts been brought there?
Because if yes Kaimere will officially become my favourite spec evo project ever lol.
God bless
Right back at ya!
Will we ever find out how the portal survived travling through space and did it find earth by astronomically lucky circumstances or somehow track it? What did they eat, how'd they survive the temperature and radiation, and how did they travel fast enough to make the journey not take hundreds of millions of years each way as well as transport matter back to their planet?
Would make for a solid episode!
Do want to clarify that they don’t transport matter back to their planet. Once they reached Earth they made their collections and just sent the data back. Basically like sending a complete genome over email. Process took a century or so for each message
Alright, I'd definitely love to see an in depth explanation of how these things even got off the planet too since it would be hard for microbes to escape that kind of gravity
Wait so how big is Kaimere compared to Earth?
Around 1.6-1.7x the radius of Earth, and around 3x the mass of Earth.
@@TalesofKaimere okay, so then how does the gravity effect the earth creatures that go there?
@@Mr.M3447 The gravity is basically the same, so there's not any changes that need to be made
Hey are you ever going to start a discord server
Probably not. Would be too much extra work to moderate
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Fastest click this week!
R E A L T R I L O B I T E H O U R S
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new intro?
Just for the arthropod series. Thought making it look like a specimen spread on a table would be a fun way to make them tangible.
IM EARLY YESSSSES
I love you so fucking much
too bad they didn't take advantage of the lack of insects and colonize the land before the next harvest.
I mean there are terrestrial trilobites in Kaimere just not the known world
@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster I must have missed that, I wish them well, may they prosper against the insectile invaders
Fantastic Art and Amazing Video as always!! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤️💖❤️💖
Thank you! Cheers!
@@TalesofKaimere Your Welcome 🤗
I 💖 Trilobites
They're delightful