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Eurypterids were among the largest and most numerous pelagic predators of Palaeozoic seas. They were segmented arthropods also known as "sea scorpions". Some species grew to over two meters in length. It used some of its legs for manipulation and crawling on the ocean bottom. The large lobed pair were used as oars to swim freely in water.
Track ways found in Norway and Australia record that some large species were among the first animals to crawl onto the land.
This life sized (50 cm) model is on display at the Museum of Ancient Life near Salt Lake City, Utah. It is based on fossil specimens from the Upper Silurian Phelps Member of the Fiddler Green Formation of Herkimer Co., New York.
text (c) John P. Alexander
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Ah my favorite prehistoric critter. I admit the sheer alien-ness of this thing always reached out to me.
But at the same time it's so familiar.
I remember seeing some documentary where they talked about how arthropods evolution unexpectedly gave them the first tools to walk on land. a rigid skeleton, eyes, way to breathe in air
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I took a photograph of a life-sized model of a giant eurypterid that was on display at the 2016 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in October. It would cover a surfboard. I will post this image as soon as I determine the taxon.
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Yeah that's one big, angry lobster.
I joke, but yeah these things have a majesty to them
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