Asteroid 8564, Anomalocaris, was discovered October 17, 1995 by Yoshisada Shimizu and Takeshi Urata at the Nachi-Katsuura Observatory in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama, Japan. It has a period of 5 years, 314 days and is about 10 1/2 miles in diameter.
It was named for Anomalocaris, a predatory carnivoous arthropod of the Cambrian period 485 to 541 million years ago. Its fossil was first discovered in the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rocky Mountains in 1892 by British paleontologist Joseph Frederick Whiteaves..
A depiction of what an anomalocaris likely looked like
The astrological meaning of asteroid Anomalocaris seems to be old, ugly,predatory.