Mesolimulus walchi, Horseshoe Crab, large (Replica) OuranosaurusComing from the famous 150 million year old Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone deposits near Eichstatt, Germany, this is a fine replica example of the Horseshoe Crab Mesolimulus walchi. Xiphosura, the horseshoe crabs, are related to the extinct Eurypterids, and more distantly to spiders and scorpions. Their lineage traces back to the Cambrian, and extends to modern times as the genus Limulus. This fossil is of a similar genus known as
was described and named by Barsbold
with the older
perhaps the first evidence of an omnivorous dinosaur
4 short tons)
how it may have fed
Dimetrodon was about 11
3 meters (67 feet) in total length
The Woolly Mammoth is well studied
Anatomy: Eremotherium had peg-like teeth
like the Gulf Coast of the United States
Megalonyx jeffersonii became the official State Fossil of West Virginia in March
Dimetrodon (meaning two-measure teeth) was a sail-backed