Ordovician Arthropod – Synziphosurine

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Description

Early Ordovician (Arenigian)
Upper Fezouata Formation
Zagora, Draa Valley, Morocco

7mm complete on 62mm slab.

A synziphosurine is a member of a suborder of arthropods, Synziphosurina, ancestral to the Order Xiphosura, which includes extinct and modern horseshoe crabs.

Unusual. Nice color. Distinct from the matrix.

Video is a 3D scan of a related Silurian specimen

See: Wikipedia – Synziphosurina

Additional information

Weight 50 g