Group :

 Fidelia C.A.
 Clement Jason
 Melissa A.W.
 Alexandria K.C.
 And the winner is…..

The candidates
 Extinct predatory cockroach
 Lived in the Upper Cretaceous period
 Fossilized in a 100-million-year-old piece of
amber
 Found in a quarry of volcanoclastic
mudstone at Noije Bum in the Hukawng
Valley in Myanmar

 Has an elongated neck, a freely rotating head and

unexpectedly long legs
 Large eyes, a triangular head, narrow body, delicate
wings, its front legs are covered in short, strong
spines, and modified mouthparts
 The body is 4.5 mm (0.18 in) long and 2 mm (0.079 in)
wide.
  Only one group closely related to
this species survives today :

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Arthropoda

Class Insecta

Order Blattaria

Superfamily Corydioidea
 Belonged to the invertebrate fauna of the
ancient amber forest of the Myanmar region.
Family Manipulatoridae
 It hunted its prey at night in the ancient
coniferous forests. In contrast, all cockroach
Genus Manipulator
species today are scavengers.
 A formidable hunter of other nocturnal
Arthropods Species Manipulator
modificaputis
P. falcatus

Phytonemus Falcatus
  Smaller fish
 Small bodied invertebrates

 The first material known

from the genus were the
prominent fin spines that
25-30 cm (10-12 in.) long curved anteriorly over the
head of the animal.

”Cladodont-toothed stethacanthid
shark"
  When first described in 1883
from the St. Louis Limestone,
these remains were given the
name Physonemus falcatus.

Specimen in Vienna Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Chordata

Class Chondrichthyes

Order Symmoriidia

Family Falcatidae

Genus Falcatus Lund, 1985

Species Falcatus falcatus

 Very large eyes for its small size

An adaptation for deep water hunting

where less light is available.

 This suggests that Falcatus was

an active swimmer that was
capable of giving chase after
prey