Forfexicaris valida is a species of Lower Cambrian arthropod, the only species in the family Forfexicarididae. It is known from only two specimens from the Maotianshan shale ''''.
Forfexicaris valida is a species of Lower Cambrian arthropod, the only species in the family Forfexicarididae. It is known from only two specimens from the Maotianshan shale ''.
==Description== F. valida had a bivalved carapace, like that seen in ostracod crustaceans, which was long and high. It had a pair of stalked eyes, and a pair of great appendages, which closely resemble those of Occacaris''.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).