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Both pokemon also have big eye markings on their heads near their real eyes, Anorith/Armaldo's being scary red ones to intimidate more than its cute cartoon eyes, and Lileep/Cradily's being big goofy weird ones to take attention away from its spooky ones

I keep forgetting these are only the second set of fossils, glad they decided to keep them going

You missed a rather interesting story about anomalocaris. Originally each part of its body was thought to be a different fossil. It’s so old that only fragmented fossils were found at first. For example, its circular mouth was a jellyfish, its body a sponge, and its claws were to be flat faced shrimp. These strangely shaped shrimp were given the name anomalocaris. If memory serves it was through comparing with a similar but smaller fossil found in China that this was corrected. This is likely why it comes from the claw fossil, as the real animal inherited the name of its claws. It is important to palaeontology as it represents the importance of international cooperation as the complete creature might never have been reported without it.

17:38 "What do you get when crossng a shrimp with a dinosaur?" *"probably prison time"* That made me chuckle quite a bit

The Pokédex says that it went extinct 100 million years ago, that just means the species disappeared at that time not that it existed only then, also Kabuto could Indeed be older since the family of trilobites apprared before equinoderms

Wait, why wasn't mention Armaldo's armor resemblence to insect exoesqueletons? It literally has the wings of a bettle. They also were the first group of animals that came to land (well, one of the first, as other groups of arthropods may came first), like Armaldo. Or it's feathers in the neck vaguely resembling the many legs of the first ever land creatures (giant milipides, which also have a somewhat similar structure covering the legs, actually, but it's only really present in paleozoic groups). It's also a megafaunal arthropod, something common up to the end of the Permian. There are also armaldo's legs which are similarly outward facing like those of stem-tetrapods or basal tetrapods as the more advanced legs (like those of the dinosaurs or mammals) only developed in the Mesozoic, in fact, Armaldo's legs and posture resemble more of the semi-erect posture of synapsids of the permian. Albeit the strangest part of it was the comparisong to a dinosaur. Not everything bipedal is dinosaurian, and outside of that, I don't see the relation. Heck, even the posture is bad as it's an upright stance unlike the horizontal stance of theropod dinosaurs (or other groups for that matter). Theropods are also infamous for their relatively small arms, unlike Armaldo. Edit: Armaldo being armored can also be a play for exosuit to extreme enviroments since it is one of the first Pokémon to venture to land. Albeit this seems far-fetched personally. I also hope this doesn't come off hostile, I'm very surprised because this channel usually digs deep in these designs and there is a lot to dig in Armaldo that wasn't touched upon.

The dex entry says "went extinct 100 million years ago." 2:14 This means that it completely died out then, not that it only lived then. It could have been alive for 100s of millions of years before going extinct.

The fact that it specifically mentions punching with armaldo may be a reference to mantis shrimp, who are known for having a powerful punch

Seeing the Predatory Tunicates reminds of of Piranha Plant…I’m surprised Nintendo themselves didn’t make an aquatic version of it in Mario, it would have been perfect to have a plant terrorize him on land AND sea.

Anorith is one of my favorite fossil mons. Also, I'm fairly certain the first half of anomalocaris is pronounced similar to anomaly

What's interesting is that Anorith is perfectly capable of climbing trees and Armoldo is the ancestor of most bug types including Scyther. Also Armoldo could be a reference to when gaint insects ruled the earth just like Yammega hence why its armor is quite indestructible. There are also real life creatures that are commonly called dinosaur shrimp and they are as you can guess really old and weird.

A few things: 1: I love the casual way he says "Probably jail time." 2: The last section of the video is labeled "Heresy." 3: When I first saw Armaldo (on my friend's DS screen), I though its nose were its eyes, and its eyes were it ears. I have never seen it a shy, timid Pokemon, but rather as a killing machine, bred for combat and ready to destroy all that gets in its way. Similar to how I see Excedrill and Hydreigon.

That Anorith plush is something I need in my life.

The pokedex reference to sea flowers might be a reference to sea tulips which are large purple and lumpy tunicates, which look similar to lileep.

The first fossil of Anomalocaris ever found was the two "pinsirs" on it's front, which the arqueologist thought was two shrimps perfectly side by side, so that's where the name came from. He thought it was two shrimps caught in a mating ritual or something. Later, a fossil with the mouth, which was thought to be some kind of jellyfish, I think, and one with the rest of the body was found, but they where thought to be two different species, so each got their name. Eventually it was discovered that what was thought to be three different species from very different groups where actually different parts of the same one. So, by convention, the oldest name was chosen, which was Anomalocaris. So he got this name not because they thought it's shape was of a weird shrimp, but because they thought it was two shrimps acting weird. Also, Anomalocaris and Kabuto's inspiration, the Trilobites, are the first case of a revolutionary arms race. The Trilobites kept getting harder as the softer ones kept dying to Anomalocaris, which in case the Anomalocaris that where too weak to crack the harder Trilobites starved. It lead to one of the hardest carapaces of the Cambrian, the Trilobites, with the strongest predators of the same period, the Anomalocaris. Fascinating stuff.

Crinoids are the most interesting organisms that live in oceans, it's amazing how they still thrive even after the prehistoric era.

9:06 I paused here. unpausing was terrifying

Looking at lileep now, i came up with another interpretation of the design A kind of octopus hiding in a shell, when It evolves the shell becomes more armored, thus them being a defensive mons, the tentacles are the only real part of lileep we can see

I actually love Lileep and Cradily. Such good leads to have when you can’t get a single gosh darn bite on your line otherwise!

I absolutely love the Anorith line ever since I revived my claw fossil in Sapphire. Still use that very same Armaldo. Has been my favorite pokemon since gen 3 so I'm glad to see you did a video on them.

Anamacarus are actually caled that because when they found the claw, they thought that it was it's own type of shrimp and when they found the whole fossil, they kept the name.

Cradily has always been my favorite fossil pokemon, cuz they didn’t just take a prehistoric animal and turn it into a pokemon, they like took inspiration from so much other the sea lilies. And it’s such a fun design

These are some of my favorite hoenn pokemon, and also some of my first pokemon ever. I will always have a space in my heart for them, especially since they helped my love for paleontology.

My Armaldo (which I named Anomalocaris) was my ace during my bug monotype run, so it has a special place in my heart

What on EARTH is this title. ...well it made me click, so good on you. *Update*: They changed the title. OG title gang rise up. 🦐🦐🦐

I love the gen 3 fossils! I remember when I first played Sapphire I chose Lileep, and since then I've loved the big crinoid, regardless of what people think (and not just because the mountain near my home has plenty of crinoid fossils). And as for Anorith, the Anomalocaris is actually my favourite prehistoric animal.

I like where my mind is, because i had never thought of Lileep's and Cradily's tentacles in that way before this video

I honestly love the early fossils gamefreak could have easily gone the dinosaur route but they didn’t and I love it

Not gonna lie, I expected a season 7 of Gnoggin... But, this looks... Interesting enough.

I was expecting mantis shrimp to be mentioned in reference to Armaldo's extendable claws, as they are kinda known to punch things like bivalves really hard, and are a kind of crustacean similar to shrimp, even getting part of their name from them. Mantis shrimp are also quite colorful, just like Anorith and Armaldo.

Everything I'm about to say is based on memory. It may or may not be entirely accurate, but I think there was someone who made a speculative zoology evolution of anomalocaris, that was a filter feeder instead of a predator (it had filters coming off of its mouth things) then later at some point some paleontologist found fossil evidence that such a creature might have actually existed

I never thought of either one of those evolutions having phallic appendages.

If the theory of most fossils being part rock type due to being revived from Rocky fossils is true, I could imagine the Cradilly line being Grass/Water type

These were always my favorit fossiles! As a sea nerds from childhood I always wished for a Dunkleosteus fossil pokemon. Gotta say that I got... surprised...

I always used to love Anorith for its looks when I first played gen 3, and didn't even consider going for Lileep, ever. But since I tried the line out somewhat recently, Cradily has definitely become my favourite fossil Pokémon of them all.

The line from the Pokédex about Armaldo punching reminds me of the Mantis Shrimp, which punches its prey so fast that it EVAPORATES THE WATER AROUND IT. One of the coolest animals

Wouldn’t the cradle in Cradily be more of a reference to the Cradle of Life, the steamy vents of the ocean where creatures like Cradily thrive?

love when you talk about the names, as there can be a lot of references, we found for example "mald" in armaldo, which can mean raw iron ore, as a comparison with age and armor-

4:26 The amount of nostalgia I got from seeing that pillowcase, I had the EXACT same one growing up

RE: lileep existing "only 100 million years ago" the pokedex says it went EXTINCT 100 million years ago. It must have existed for a decent amount of time prior to its extinction, no?

Is this your first newly recorded upload since injury? If so welcome back Lockstin! Been smashing through your seasonal re-uploads. Totally fantastic. Coincidentally yesterday I passed the point you talked about squidlings, octolings etc, so its neat having more depth to the subject. Anyway, cheers from down under, my morning coffee is just about done so editing time! Toodaloo! ~Thonk~

I always loved the Cradily line, but now that I know that their names come from lillies, I love it even more. Though that casual mention of a wife was the biggest surprise this video.

Armaldo probably also draws inspiration from the Mantis Shrimp which has the strongest pound for pound strike on earth, so fast and powerful that it boils the water around it and creates sonic booms when it strikes with its claw. It can apparently punch thru steel lined shark suits and is likely where the "Punching thru steel plate" line comes from.

Ayyy finally a video on the best set of Fossils! Burgess Shale is a GOLD MINE for Pokémon ideas, I really hope that we get more. Imagine Opabinia as a Pokémon, you could do so much with that claw snoot! Bug/Ghost, maybe, and it’s a spooky hand that drags your soul into a sea of the dead that it swims in? I dunno.

I’ve never used armaldo in a run, but for some reason I love it. It’s just so cool!

CRADILY IS MT FAVORITE PREHISTORIC BARNACLE BOI AND I LOVE HIM

It's interesting to see similarities with Armaldo and the other Hoenn bug types, like it's their ancestor - Ninjask's claws, Masquerain's false eyes, Illumise's coloration

I suppose the dex entry says they went extinct 100 million years ago, so they could've been alive for much longer. But yeah, weird that they went with that

Glad to see that you are back!!! I hope your surgery went well! (i'm typing this before watching the video so I'm not sure if you mention that or not)

Ah yes, the pokemon based on that thing that absolutely traumatized me when I first watched Walking With Monsters. How can something based on a childhood trauma be so adorable?

That sponsor plug was so smooth and good I can’t even be mad about it. 10/10

For the longest time, I never saw Anorith’s eyes and just paid attention to the red parts on its head thinking those were it. Until I saw Armaldo one day and ruined them both for me. Armaldo could look so sick if those eyes didn’t make it look goofy

For Armaldo I very much think that it is inspired by the Eurypterid (aka Sea Scorpion) that was around 467.3 million years ago. Also in Eurypterids some scientists believe that they could have developed organs that would allow them to breath air while on land (at least for limited amounts of time). So the big claws, long body that still looks similar to Anorith, and two legs for standing on land could be what went into the design for Armaldo.

Something very interesting about armaldo. It may be partially inspired by mantis shrimp. Specifically spearers like the zebra mantis shrimp. That dex entry about its hunting method is very reminiscent of how they hunt

Anorith in the thumbnail and intro skit looks really cute. Reminds me of how in the lists i made with my two brothers, divvying up every Pokemon amongst us; i gave myself an Anorith even though i already had an established Armaldo named Zarak. The explanation for me having "Malaca" is she stays an Anorith and is adorable. There's been similar "duplicates" amongst our collection, some Pokemon are even given to all three of us, such as Mankey & Pidgey.

17:15 "Fry'em with batter! They go good with Tarter Sauce!"

"Hmm... I need to find a medieval history nerd." *looks to Shadiversity*

YAY Maxill! He made my day, as always!

Drink a shot for every time he says anenomee instead of anemone

I have never realised what Lileep's/Cradily's tentacles looked like until now...

15:50 I really like shrimps!🦐🦐🦐🦐🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Anorith and Armaldo are definitely my favorite fossils, and Armaldo probably one of my favorite 'mon. Just love the design. Also, Anorith looks like a creature from the Cell Stage in Spore thanks to its eyes sticking out of its head

18:54 that's literally the Kaiden armor from Elden Ring, I love that they use real armor for a lot of their sets

Lockstins relationship with sea anemones reminds me of Benedict Cumberbatches relationship with penguins

You missed the whole barnicle inspirations with cradily, it locks itself to one position and stays there with suction cups. Also the whole fake eyes thing. Its eyes actually are not on its head but *in* its head, Idk what this could be inspired by but I'm pointing it out

I love the gen 3 fossils and you’ve got me to love them more! :D

Love to see a video on Cradily, it’s my favorite Pokémon.

Don't sleep on a fossil, you might break it, or it might break you. Me and my wife's last mattress was a hand-me-down from my parents, which is a little weird. So we DOUBLE loved switching to a Helix, and have loved it for years since! Visit helixsleep.com/lockstin to get up to $200 off your Helix mattress, plus two free pillows.

I've always been fascinated by anomalocaris, so Anorith was always one of my favorite Fossil Mons

The editing of your videos continues to amaze me, props! Love it!

I hope you continue the detailrd view of all the fossilmons. They are my favourite

Armaldo's dex entry reminds me so much of the shrimp that punches so hard the water around its claws starts boiling

I think that cradily can also have an inspiration based on the neck rings to have a longer neck that are used by some people in some cultures, and that is what the 3 yellow rings in its "neck" are

I feel like a video talking about the food chain in Pokemon is a must😤😤😤

0:32 Shaking in shock at remember Armaldo is rock bug even though I've been using one in PMD DX lately and they show you the typing of your pokemon right before they depart. All those water moves do trip you up

Glad to see you recovering well Lockstin. Good to see you again.

when i was younger i always thoght the red part of the head on Anorith and Armaldo was there eyes. It took me some time to notice the actual eyes.

I got to catalog the springer collection at the smithsonian museum of natural history. I worked exclusively on crinoids, and it's likely that whatever species cradily is based on was a later species, while Kabutops is based on one of the earliest instances of trilobites. There's a huge amount of diversity in crinoid fossils, especially in how they looked. I had to catalog everything from intricate hieroglyphicus that have hieroglyphic looking patterns on them, to crinoids that anchored themselves to the ground by having a base that's just like...a twenty pound cannonball (not fun to carry 40 of those around). Also, anomolacaris (pronounced a-NOM-a-la-CAR-is) is named that because they initially saw it's "mouth appendages" and thought they were weird shrimp. The name came from their understanding of only one part of the animal, not the whole. It is in fact not considered a shrimp at all. The only thing the two really have in common is that they're arthropods, and even then that's up for debate (I used to argue about this with people at the smithsonian a lot lol) because the "mouth appendages" don't fit quite well into the official definition of what an arthropod is meant to be. Overall great video that caters to both my love of fossils and pokemon

Armaldo is probably my favorite fossils cause it looks cool, it’s a bug type, and I love it’s character in that one special episode of Pokémon mystery dungeon explorers of sky

The cilia things on anorith and armaldo look similar to the visual shorthand the Aztecs used in their codices to communicate the idea of a knife. Maybe this is trying to communicate that these pokemon are sharp, old and fierce?

I have invertebrate anatomy this period this is a pretty cool way of seeing some of that in a different context. Also Echinodermata (the starfish/sea lily phylum) is in the deuterostoma superfylum together with vertebrates and lancelets, so they are actually relatively closely related to us. (Although you really wouldn't say that from their anatomy they are really weird both inside and out)

Anorith and Armaldo being based on Anomalocaris makes me want more Fossil Pokemon based on creatures that lived before the Dinosaurs like Dimetrodon or Gorgonopsid,

I like how both these fossil's have false eyes ( The Red in the Middle of the head for annorith line and the spiral like eyes on lileep line)

Haha, your doctor quote reminds me of a moment not long after pogo gen 3 release. I got a craydily and remarked to my friend "hey look it's a green peen" was dark didn't see the stranger coming down the road, he looks over "if it's green mate, you might wanna go to a doctor". Me and my friends basically on the floor laughing so hard XD

Thanks for making a great video on my favorite fossils

In space, no one can hear you scream... unless you bully and/or prey on them.

Lileep and Cradily survived up until 100 million years ago, which means they could still be older than Kabuto and Kabutops.

The lileep tentacle color could also be a bait kind of thing maybe? Attract fish mon using something similar lookin to a worm?

these fossil vids are some of my favorite, i wish they got more views.

Crinoids and Blastoids are EVERYwhere in the limestone here in Kentucky. My geologist father would point them out to me all the time out in the field. I immediately recognized by lileep was when I was 9.

Another neat thing about those tunicates is that tunicates are the only animals which can produce cellulose, which is the fibre commonly found in the cells of plants. So it perfectly stands to reason the only grass type that's fully based on an animal will have a bit of tunicate in it. I guess armaldo could have been expounded on a bit more, but it seems the developers found it hard to look for room for improvement with anomalocaris, it's a pretty neat animal. It'd be cool to see more prehistoric invertebrates, I'd love a hallucigenia and opabinia fossil duo.

armaldo's punch dex entry makes me think of Mantis Shrimps... so maybe? they do sort of look alike

“the ability to punch through a steel slab” that armaldo has made me think of mantis shrimp. 🤔

came in to get some pokemon knowledge, came out wanting to get my hands on those fossil plushies

You got a little bit wrong on lileeps Pokédex entry, it says it “went” extinct 100 million years not that it lived then which means it could be as old or older than kubotops it just lived longer.

Cradily became my favorite fossil pokemon after I realized where its eyes actually are, so this was a neat treat

The editing was so good.

I'm glad you look good after your surgery (unless this was recorded back in December). Hopefully everything went well!

I love this focus on fossils, I love fossil Pokemon