Another Rare Beauty! Sea Scorpion!

[TJE]

This mean looking fellow is a Eurypterid (sea scorpion) about a foot long and half a foot wide and not quite half full grown. They have no legs or eyes, instead they used paddles and pincers to sense and feel their prey.
Dated in The Silurian Age at 430-450 million years old.

 

[Age_old]

Beautiful specimen!! I have never seen one with an open maw like that. The detail in the jaw is unreal. I have always wanted one of those in my collection. May I ask where it was found?

 

[wvwildman]

very neat

 

[TJE]

Hello Age old, Thanks.It's from The Bruce Peninsula, out of The Eramosa formation.

 

[TJE]

Thanks wvwildman.

 

[old digger]

Awesome fossil! The negative piece has a ghostly apperance.

 

[TJE]

Thanks old digger, hard to see...in my 'sad excuse for photos' :/ But..there are actually one 'complete' (different genre) and two more 'incomplete' Eurys as well around the matrix of the dominant (center specimen).
TJE

 

[Harry Pristis]

Hello Age old, Thanks.It's from The Bruce Peninsula, out of The Eramosa formation.

The positive-negative adds to the eye appeal. Great detail.

Here's mine from New York State:

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[TJE]

Very nice H.P.! Your excellent 'Remipes' genre fossil is probably the closest relative (guessing) of a 'Carcinosoma' in body anatomy...Unless a person was a paleontologist specializing in this species...We'd hardly be able to tell them apart!
Thanks for sharing
TJE

 

[TJE]

Thanks boris, I should have mentioned, their age to maturity I believe isn't know. I know they do grow to over 2 feet in length, with a talon (stinger) 4" or longer!