21152 - Premium Grade Soft Bodied Xiphosurid (Horseshoe Crab Ancestor) Lower Ordovician Paralejurus Excellent tooth of one of
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
Excellent tooth of one of the giant crocodiles that reigned the fluvial systems of the North African Cretaceous
compared to the taxa of the most typical asaphids
This teeth
Eustypocystis
It is a very rare piece
21152 - Premium Grade Soft Bodied Xiphosurid (Horseshoe Crab Ancestor) Lower Ordovician Paralejurus Excellent tooth of one ofXiphosurans 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