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HOPLITASPIS, from the ✨new video✨: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNpx... I made for animals of the Ordovician period 🦐 #hoplitaspis #ordovician #paleoart #horseshoe
August 24, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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For the first #FossilFriday of the year, here is an undescribed Ordovician chasmataspidid from Manitoba, Canada. Referred to as a eurypterid in publications, the species looks very similar to Hoplitaspis, which is known from contemporaneous rocks in Michigan. ⚒️🧪
A fossil of an arthropod preserved on a beige rock. The animal is seen in side view, with its body armed upwards. Large limbs, including a broad paddle, are preserved on the underside of the head. The first three segments of the body are fused together with a single large plate on the underside.
January 5, 2024 at 9:02 PM