21190 - Premium Grade Soft Bodied Xiphosurid (Horseshoe Crab Ancestor) Lower Ordovician Silicified Pine Cones Errachidia province
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Description
Errachidia province
Kyrgyzstan (1)
The Cobaltoan calcite is a variety of calcite containing Co2+ replacing Ca
Belongs to Striatolamia according to G
nicely mineralized
21190 - Premium Grade Soft Bodied Xiphosurid (Horseshoe Crab Ancestor) Lower Ordovician Silicified Pine Cones Errachidia provinceXiphosurans are an order of arthropods related to arachnids, or, according to one recent study, actually arachnids. They are sometimes called horseshoe crabs (a name applied more specifically to the only extant family, Limulidae). They first appeared in the Tremadocian (Lower Ordovician) from Fezouata Fm in South Morocco. Currently, there are only four living species. They are members of the order Xiphosura, which contains two suborders, Xiphosurida