Mesolimulus walchi, Horseshoe Crab, medium (Replica) PachycephalosaurusComing 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
Germany is one of the richest sites for understanding the living environment of the Eocene at about 49 million years ago
Complete specimens
These fine grained layers of limestone contain very well preserved fossils of fish
135 MYA Location: Liaoning
Europe and North America)
slenderly-built
Males may have had larger crests than females
000 species of trilobites identified but as we know none of them were predators
Location: China � Age: Late Miocene
Adapis is an extinct genus of lemur-like primate belonging to the Adapinae subfamily
pterosaurs are more closely related to birds than to crocodiles or any other living reptile
Allosaurus manus claw