Bizzare Ayshaeia Lobopod Fossil

from Cambrian Explosion Utah

cf Ayshaeia sp

Kingdom Animalia, Superphylum Ecdysozoa, Phylum Lobopodia, Class Xenusia, Family Aysheaiidae

Geological Time: Middle Cambrian

Size: Fossil is 20 mm (curve measure) on a 125 mm by 55 mm matrix

Fossil Site: Upper Wheeler Shale, Millard County, Utah, USA

Fossil Code: STF31

Price: Sold

Ayshaeia Lobopod FossilDescription: This is a fine essentially complete specimen of one of the most unusual Burgess Shale type creatures: a lobopodian similar to Ayshaeia. The genus is better known from the actual Burgess Shale of Canada, and this is the first known example of what is most likely a different species to be commercially offered first described in 1989. No other lobopodian displays the paired limbs at the anterior as seen here.

Reference: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1989, pp 271-273 .

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